Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), a pioneer in quantum computing and atomic manufacturing, today announced that it has been awarded a DARPA contract under the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) program. The purpose of this program is to rigorously verify and validate if any quantum computing approach can achieve utility-scale operation, meaning its computational value exceeds its cost, by the year 2033.

Diraq today announced that it was awarded a Stage A contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to work on its recently announced Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI). This initiative, led by the US Government, seeks to determine whether it’s possible to build an industrially useful quantum computer much faster than conventional predictions. It represents a tangible investment by the US Government in progress toward realizing the promise of commercially viable quantum computing systems.

An invention from Twente improves the quality of light particles (photons) to such an extent that building quantum computers based on light becomes cheaper and more practical. The researchers published their research in the scientific journal Physical Review Applied. "This technology is an essential part of any future photonic quantum computer."

Philip Kurian, a theoretical physicist and founding director of the Quantum Biology Laboratory (QBL) at Howard University in Washington, D.C., has used the laws of quantum mechanics, which Schrödinger postulated, and the QBL’s discovery of cytoskeletal filaments exhibiting quantum optical features, to set a drastically revised upper bound on the computational capacity of carbon-based life in the entire history of Earth. Published in Science Advances, Kurian’s latest work conjectures a relationship between this information-processing limit and that of all matter in the observable universe.

An international team led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that could lead to new materials at the core of quantum computing.

Now a team of researchers led by Mohammad Mirhosseini, assistant professor of electrical engineering and applied physics at Caltech, has developed an on-chip transducer to help bridge that significant energy gap. The silicon device performs a stepwise transformation to convert microwave photons to optical photons. The work is described online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

Richard Versluis will become a Quantum and Computer Engineering (QCE) fellow at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science at Delft University of Technology. He will continue his work as Principal Systems Engineer at TNO.

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, today announced several initiatives designed to increase adoption and deployment of its commercial quantum optimization offering. At the Company’s Qubits 2025 user conference, D-Wave introduced updates to its hybrid quantum solvers and expanded use cases, reflecting increased demand for quantum optimization solutions from end users,independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators (SIs), and resellers.

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have made a surprising discovery about how superconductivity behaves in extremely thin materials. Superconductors are materials that allow electric current to flow without resistance, which makes them incredibly valuable for technology. Usually, the properties of superconductors change predictably when the materials become thinner; however, this study found something unexpected.

A quantum physicist at Heriot-Watt University has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters.