Quantum Circuits, Inc., announced that its partner Algorithmiq, a European quantum algorithm company focused on life sciences, is accelerating new drug discovery by utilizing the full-stack quantum computing system Aqumen Seeker to detect errors and produce more accurate chemistry calculations.

Bluefors today announced the immediate availability of their new Ultra-Compact LD dilution refrigerator system – an all-in-one, compact cryogenic measurement system ideal for lab environments with limited space.

Scientists have developed a detection system that could vastly improve the accuracy of human facial and activity recognition at long distances and through obstructions like fog, smoke or camouflage. The research is published in the optics and photonics journal Optica and is a collaboration between the Single-Photon Group at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, led by quantum photonics expert Professor Gerald Buller, using equipment developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at California Institute of Technology and by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, and by the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

QphoX B.V., a Dutch quantum technology startup that is developing leading frequency conversion systems for quantum applications, Rigetti Computing, Inc., a pioneer in full-stack quantum-classical computing, and Qblox, a leading innovator in quantum control stack development, today announced that their joint research demonstrating the ability to readout superconducting qubits with an optical transducer was published in Nature Physics.

Qubits—the fundamental units of quantum information—drive entire tech sectors. Among them, superconducting qubits could be instrumental in building a large-scale quantum computer, but they rely on electrical signals and are difficult to scale. In a breakthrough, a team of physicists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has achieved a fully optical readout of superconducting qubits, pushing the technology beyond its current limitations. Their findings were published in Nature Physics.

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.

A more feasible transformation, according to Prof. Moshe Ben Shalom, head of the Quantum Layered Matter Group at Tel Aviv University, involves reconfiguring the atomic layers of graphite by shifting them against relatively weak van der Waals forces. This study, led by Prof. Ben Shalom and PhD students Maayan Vizner Stern and Simon Salleh Atri, all from the School of Physics & Astronomy at Tel Aviv University, was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Review Physics.

Physicists have built a new type of digital-analogue quantum simulator in Google’s laboratory, which can be used to study physical processes with unprecedented precision and flexibility. Two physicists from PSI’s Center for Scientific Computing, Theory and Data, played a key role in this achievement.

Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have now directly measured superfluid stiffness for the first time in “magic-angle” graphene — materials that are made from two or more atomically thin sheets of graphene twisted with respect to each other at just the right angle to enable a host of exceptional properties, including unconventional superconductivity.

The global SuperC consortium wants to realize a superconductor capable of operating at room temperature within a decade. If all its objectives are met, it will have a huge impact on global energy consumption. Grand challenges such as achieving room-temperature superconductivity require a truly collaborative approach. The project will be done by a consortium of 11 top-level research teams from universities in Finland, including University of Jyväskylä, EU and USA. SuperC is coordinated by Aalto University in Finland.