A collaboration bringing together UBC Blusson QMI researchers with industry and government partners is set to accelerate research and commercialization of innovative photonic chips. With over $1 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the National Research Council Canada (NRC), the project aims to overcome key integration challenges in embedding quantum light sources into semiconductor-based platforms.

Quantum computing expert Michael Manfra has been named director of the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute (PQSEI), effective March 1. He is the Bill and Dee O’Brien Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and professor of materials engineering.

Today, physicists are still asking themselves whether quantum mechanics needs hypercomplex numbers. FAU researchers Ece Ipek Saruhan, Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier and Dr. Marc Oliver Pleinert have been investigating this question in their research.

In a recent release, Jij Inc., a Tokyo-based quantum optimization company, announced it has established its first overseas branch, Jij Europe Ltd., in the United Kingdom as part of its global expansion strategy. According to the release, the company has also officially joined UKQuantum, a consortium representing the UK’s quantum technology sector.

In the quest for ultra-secure, long-range quantum communication, two major challenges stand in the way: the unpredictable nature of atmospheric turbulence and the limitations of current optical wavefront correction techniques. Researchers at the University of Ottawa, under the supervision of Professor Ebrahim Karimi, the director of Nexus for Quantum Technologies, in collaboration with the National Research Council Canada (NRC) and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Germany), have made significant advances in overcoming both obstacles. Their two latest breakthroughs—an AI-powered turbulence forecasting tool called TAROQQO and a high-speed Adaptive Optics (AO) system for correcting turbulence in quantum channels—represent a turning point in developing free-space quantum networks.

UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based systems, opening new possibilities for sensing, precision timekeeping, quantum computing and fundamental science measurements.

IonQ, a leader in the quantum computing and networking industries, announced today that it has delivered and commissioned a quantum networking system optimized for research and development to the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome, New York.

An international team of scientists is manipulating moiré superlattices of two-dimensional materials to design and analyze novel quantum materials properties.

QunaSys is proud to announce that it has been awarded funding from the Innovation Fund Denmark as part of the HyperTenQ project, an initiative aimed at advancing quantum computing for chemistry. With an investment of DKK 19 million, this prestigious grant recognizes QunaSys’s leadership in quantum computing and its potential to transform materials science, drug discovery, and sustainable technologies.

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a leading global scientific research center and the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), has announced a key advancement in quantum computing with the development of a new quantum optimization solver. The work makes significant strides toward the practical application of quantum computers by demonstrating how large-scale, combinatorial optimization problems can be addressed using just a few quantum bits (qubits).