The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funds research into controlled quantum states of individual or coupled systems with its ongoing emerging talent program “Quantum Future”. Among the first selected projects, which kicked off in January 2025, is “qHPC-GREEN”, proposed by junior research group leader Dr. Werner Dobrautz, who began building his research team at the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), an institute of Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), only in late 2024. The computational chemist aims to model quantum mechanical systems at the heart of certain biochemical and physical phenomena that are relevant to environmental and energy challenges. The project running until the end of 2029 will combine quantum and high-performance computing to achieve this goal.

Today, Yunger Halpern’s work as an award-winning physicist also straddles two centuries and two worlds – thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.

U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) today introduced bipartisan legislation to expand the United States’ capacity to invest in quantum information science and research and development (R&D) through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). As quantum science, engineering, and technology advances, the DOE Quantum Leadership Act of 2025 would reinvigorate R&D projects at DOE by authorizing more than $2.5 billion in funding over the next five years—well above the $625 million for DOE-related programs laid out in the now-expiredNational Quantum Initiative Act of 2018. The DOE Quantum Leadership Act would also provide DOE the authority to expand its current quantum R&D initiatives.

Pritzker Molecular Engineering researchers entangled two physically separate resonators.

TU Wien, the University of Innsbruck and the company qtlabs are working together on a major FFG-funded project to make quantum cryptography secure and suitable for practical use.

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) announced today that FZJ has purchased a D-Wave quantum computer, becoming the first high-performance computing (HPC) center in the world to own a D-Wave Advantage annealing quantum computing system.

BMO today announced it has joined the IBM Quantum Network, extending its technology leadership in North America to further drive real financial progress for its customers, clients, and the communities it serves.

Quantinuum, the world’s largest integrated quantum computing company, and RIKEN, Japan’s largest comprehensive research institution, today announced the successful on-premise installation of Quantinuum’s “Reimei” quantum computer at RIKEN’s Wako campus in Saitama, Japan. RIKEN has designed, prepared, and delivered a world-class facility for the trapped-ion quantum computer, which will enable generations of high-performance quantum systems.

IQMQuantum Computers, Riverlane, and Zurich Instruments have announced the launchof the SurgeonQ project, a strategic collaboration to create the first quantumcomputing platform capable of running multiple real-time quantum errorcorrection operations. The project represents progress towards commerciallyviable quantum computing systems.

RTX’s BBN Technologies and Xanadu, in collaboration with the University of Maryland and Raytheon’s Advanced Technology business, are spearheading a groundbreaking project in response to DARPA MTO’s INSPIRED Program. The team aims to develop the INSIGHT device: an integrated, in-package squeezed light generator and homodyne detector. This innovation is designed to achieve an unprecedented detection sensitivity 16 dB below the photon shot noise level, leveraging cutting-edge silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (SiN PICs) and high-efficiency on-chip detection.