QAI Ventures, a Swiss ecosystem builder and VC, is expanding into North America with the launch of its first quantum technology accelerator in Calgary. In partnership with Quantum City, an initiative by the University of Calgary, this expansion strengthens Canada’s role as a global quantum innovation hub while bridging the European and North American markets. The Accelerator program kicks off with an opening event at the qHub in Calgary on March 10th, 3:30 PM.

An international team of researchers led by the Strong Correlation Quantum Transport Laboratory of the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) has demonstrated, in a world’s first, an ideal Weyl semimetal, marking a breakthrough in a decade-old problem of quantum materials.

Canada and France have a strong history of cooperation in science, technology and innovation. To this end, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) is pleased to announce its support of eight collaborative research projects focused on quantum computing hardware and software. NSERC’s investment in these projects is close to CAN $2.2 million over three years.

Xiaoqian Chen, a physicist and beamline scientist at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been selected as one of the 91 early career scientists from across the country to receive research funding through the DOE Office of Science’s Early Career Research Program. This funding will aid Chen in researching the unique ways that particles interact to share information due to quantum mechanics.

A team of South Dakota Mines researchers received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a Quantum Materials Institute on campus to advance quantum computing and secure quantum communications.