On July 11, 2024, the Quad Investors Network’s (QUIN) Quantum Center of Excellence published its final report detailing the quantum capabilities of the Quad nations. The report, entitled “Quantum Science & Technology in the QUAD Nations: Landscape and Opportunities,” describes the top challenges each country faces in Quantum Sciences, identifies areas for further exploration and collaboration, and lays out specific actions the QUIN can take to catalyze further advancements in areas of quantum computing, communications, and sensing amongst the Quad Nations.

In a recent paper published in Physical Review Letters, researchers of the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST) - in collaboration with researchers from Regensburg, Heidelberg and Harvard University - propose a new scheme to emulate doped, bosonic quantum magnets in state-of-the-art cold atom and molecule experiments. Instead of relying on physical tunneling of the mobile dopants, they develop a protocol that utilizes the rich internal structure of atoms and molecules to implement the charge and spin degrees-of-freedom.

he Chicago-based Duality quantum accelerator has accepted its fourth cohort of startups into its program as the quantum revolution arrives in Illinois. The five startups in this cohort are developing products and solutions across the quantum technology landscape that includes quantum computing, sensing, and communication, and will look to evolve their technologies and business practices to succeed in various industries like biomedicine and aerospace.

Researchers at Purdue University have trapped alkali atoms (cesium) on an integrated photonic circuit, which behaves like a transistor for photons (the smallest energy unit of light) similar to electronic transistors. These trapped atoms demonstrate the potential to build a quantum network based on cold-atom integrated nanophotonic circuits. The team, led by Chen-Lung Hung, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the Purdue University College of Science, published their discovery in the American Physical Society’s Physical Review X.

Using two optically trapped glass nanoparticles, researchers observed a novel collective Non-Hermitian and nonlinear dynamic driven by nonreciprocal interactions. This contribution expands traditional optical levitation with tweezer arrays by incorporating the so called non-conservative interactions. Their findings, supported by an analytical model developed by collaborators from Ulm University and the University of Duisburg-Essen, were recently published in Nature Physics.

Austria recently officially signed the European Declaration on Quantum Technologies, which establishes strategic cooperation between EU member states to promote quantum technologies. The declaration was signed by all three research departments BMBWF, BMK and BMAW, which underlines its great importance for the entire research and innovation system.

Yonsei University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with IBM for the 'MOU for Cooperation on the Bio-Quantum Initiative'. This agreement aims to strengthen collaboration between the two institutions in the research and development of quantum computing within the field of biotechnology.

The harnessing of quantum technology will transform the economy and lead to high demand for quantum technicians who do not need an advanced degree for high-quality careers in emerging technology growth industry.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to coordinate efforts to move the needle on quantum computing.