Using thin-film lithium niobate optical switches, insertion loss was reduced from 20 mdB to 7 mdB. This result advances efforts to scale photonic quantum computers.
Diraq has installed an 8‑qubit silicon‑spin quantum computer in a commercial data center in Sydney, Australia. It aims to expand to as many as 256 qubits within a year.
An IBM Quantum System Two with the Nighthawk r2 processor has been installed at the University of Chicago; the system is planned to move to the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) in future.
An IBM quantum processor is colocated with ORNL’s HPC equipped with AMD GPUs and CPUs to validate low‑latency quantum error‑correction processing.
JIJ has released a quantum–classical hybrid optimization solver that can handle decision variables exceeding the number of qubits.
Plans to automate error correction and quantum–classical integration in stages, aiming for a unified development environment from Helios to Apollo (planned 2029).
Automates everything from quantum-circuit generation to placement on IBM quantum processors and error suppression for materials and chemistry research.
D-Wave updated the core algorithm of its Stride hybrid solver and began offering the improved version on the Leap quantum cloud. In internal comparisons on problems such as the traveling salesman problem, it reported improvements in solution quality and solve time.
Integrates over 400 mm² of computational area with control circuitry and inter‑chip connectivity to enable expansion of quantum computers via multiple chips.
Infleqtion conducted continuous operation of its Tiqker optical atomic clock aboard a U.S. Navy support vessel, evaluating GPS‑independent precision timing in a maritime environment.
Combining SEEQC’s chip-based pre-decoder with NVIDIA Ising, simulations reduced decoding latency and logical error rate by about 50%.
PsiQuantum has unveiled an 8×8 optical circuit switch prototype. In internal tests it recorded 1.2 dB insertion loss and a reconfiguration time under 3 ms.
IQM announced it generated a GHZ state across all 54 qubits of IQM Emerald, with fidelity after readout-error mitigation exceeding the classical threshold.
They will evaluate the performance and technical challenges of a solver that combines quantum computing and HPC for linear equations in thermal-fluid analysis.
Quantum Computing Inc. announced an expanded version of Dirac-3. It increases the problem size to 9,980 variables and claims to outperform classical methods on the standard max‑clique benchmark.
IBM has released Qiskit SDK v2.6. It enables custom compiler paths via a C API, QPY circuit serialization, and custom quantum operations.
Qblox integrated an NVIDIA DGX Spark with its quantum system controller via NVQLink, incorporating GPUs into the quantum control real-time loop.
Silicon Quantum Computing automated QPU measurement and calibration, streamlining prototype cycles for atom-scale semiconductor chips.
In the first phase of France’s PROQCIMA program, they tested cat‑qubit CNOT gates and a distance‑3 repetition code on hardware. The logical error rate remains above the error‑correction threshold.
An Advantage2 with over 4,400 qubits has been delivered to northern Italy. Once installed, it will be available via the cloud to European research institutions and companies.
Riverlane re‑calibrated QEC decoder weights on GPUs, speeding a surface‑code training epoch 65× versus a single CPU core.
Infleqtion will use £9 million from Innovate UK to advance testing of its quantum RF direction-finding product Quantum Spectrum-DF in operational environments.
Alice & Bob performed a proof‑of‑concept decoding of LDPC‑cat codes on a GPU via NVIDIA NVQLink. The test used synthetic data and did not achieve real‑time decoding.
Updated Factorization Machine internals and sped up surrogate‑model search, slimming the library and shortening processing time.
Pasqal added an AI-assisted feature to Pasqal Cloud that connects formalizing scientific ideas, execution on neutral-atom QPUs, and result processing.
Diraq has been selected for Stage C of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. An independent team will evaluate the performance, manufacturability, and cost of its silicon spin qubit approach.
A neutral-atom approach to utility-scale quantum computing will undergo independent verification by DARPA.
IonQ has advanced to Stage C of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. Multiple generations of Superion will undergo independent evaluation through 2029.
QUDORA Japan has been selected for a NEDO project to develop common packaging technology and design rules for cryogenic quantum computers. It will collaborate with Kyocera and AIST (G-QuAT).
IBM introduced a mechanism to call Qiskit’s Rust core directly via the C API, enabling integration of quantum processing into existing HPC and scientific computing code.