To kick off the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology in 2025, three Colorado universities in collaboration with Elevate Quantum have announced that a new facility for fostering quantum technologies is coming to Colorado.

The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo and collaborators have secured USD$25,000 from the American Physical Society’s (APS) Innovation Fund to fund the Quantum Explorations Student Toolbox (QuEST) project.

Molecular quantum bits hold great promise for advancing more powerful and secure quantum technologies, particularly in sectors like communications and energy. However, qubits find it difficult to exploit their full potential in conventional hardware. Chemists like Joris van Slageren are researching how to turn qubits into robust and reliable information carriers. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has named Joris van Slageren a Henriette Herz Scout in recognition of his expertise in molecular quantum technology and his dedication to supporting early-career researchers.

Classiq, a leading quantum computing software company, and Florence Quantum Labs today announced their collaboration on research to develop quantum-enhanced precision agriculture. This announcement comes as 2025 kicks off the International Year of Quantum Science and Technologies, underscoring the global significance of quantum advancements in addressing critical challenges.

Using supercold environments and a quantum computer, Purdue researchers examined the evolution of a network of Ising spins in the presence of a transverse field. Much like ripples on water, the wave moves across the surface, but the water molecules move up and down, perpendicular to the wave's direction. This type of computational discovery is challenging with conventional or even supercomputers. This discovery, led by Arnab Banerjee, an assistant professor at Purdue University's Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been published in Nature Communications.

The simultaneous capability of colloidal QDs to sustain robust room-temperature spin quantum coherence and to engage in photochemistry inspired Prof. WU Kaifeng and his team from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to explore a highly interdisciplinary field—using quantum coherence of QDs to control photochemical reactions.

Now, a team of researchers from IESL FORTH, Dr. Theocharis Lamprou and Dr. Paraskevas Tzallas, and ICFO, Dr. Javier Rivera-Dean, Philipp Stammer and ICREA Prof. Maciej Lewenstein, has successfully addressed both issues. They created generalized coherent state superpositions (GCSS), verified their quantum nature and employed them to drive a nonlinear optical process (which, per se, is indicative of the high photon number and intensity of the states). Their findings, demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally, have been reported in Physical Review Letters.

BTQ Technologies Corp. (the "Company"), a global quantum technology company focused on securing mission-critical networks, is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") with the Future Quantum Convergence Forum ("FQCF"), the Quantum Industrial Standard Association ("QuINSA"), and the Future Quantum Convergence Institute ("QCI"). This collaboration represents a significant step toward fostering global innovation and cooperation in quantum technologies.

IonQ, a leader in the quantum computing and networking industry, announced a technological breakthrough that demonstrates a new approach to scalable quantum computing, resulting from a collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Since their establishment in 2020, the five U.S. Department of Energy National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. or NQISRCs, have been expanding the frontier of what’s possible in quantum computing, communication, sensing and materials in ways that will advance basic science for energy, security, communication and logistics. The centers have strengthened the national quantum information science. or QIS, ecosystem, achieving scientific and technological breakthroughs as well as training the next-generation quantum workforce.