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.
Automates everything from quantum-circuit generation to placement on IBM quantum processors and error suppression for materials and chemistry research.
PsiQuantum has received a conditional loan commitment of up to $150 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (referred to in the announcement as the Department of War). The funds are intended to expand U.S.-based prototyping, manufacturing, and system-integration capabilities.
IBM connected two superconducting quantum processors with four l-couplers, demonstrating an average 99% quantum state-transfer fidelity.
IBM has released Qiskit SDK v2.6. It enables custom compiler paths via a C API, QPY circuit serialization, and custom quantum operations.
Classiq and FreeYa Mind Campus will establish a hub in Iași, Romania combining quantum hardware, a development platform, and education.
A neutral-atom approach to utility-scale quantum computing will undergo independent verification by DARPA.
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.
IBM Quantum announced a new execution model, directed execution. The new primitive, Executor, lets clients inspect and modify error mitigation and circuit randomization from the client side.
Q-CTRL’s error‑suppression software Fire Opal now supports IBM Quantum Nighthawk. In a 60‑qubit fermionic simulation it reported roughly a 12× speedup versus previous hardware.
QuEra and HPE will collaborate to integrate QuEra’s neutral‑atom fault‑tolerant quantum system with HPE Cray supercomputing infrastructure, envisioning combined cloud and on‑premises deployment options.
Independent evaluation of 36 quantum industry companies across technology, business results, QEC, manufacturing capability, customers and revenue. The Autumn 2026 edition adds nine firms — including Quantum Machines, Bluefors, Qblox and Riverlane — and analyzes ranking shifts since the summer edition and changing competitive axes in the quantum industry.
Alice & Bob and CEA have begun work to integrate software for cat qubits into HPC environments and to research many-body algorithms aimed at early fault-tolerant quantum computing.
QuEra’s 2026 Quantum Readiness Survey found 45% of respondents prioritize a roadmap to fault tolerance. However, there was no clear consensus on the most promising quantum computing architecture.
IBM announced a technical approach that continuously combines quantum error mitigation and quantum error correction. In a spacetime-code demonstration, it improved effective gate error rates by roughly tenfold.
A quantum technology hub will be established at ETH Zurich, and an IBM Quantum System Two equipped with a 120‑qubit Nighthawk r2 will be brought into operation by the end of 2026.
Xanadu has added Backline to PennyLane to integrate control of CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and quantum processors from a single interface, claiming end-to-end communication latency under 3 microseconds.
A quantum–HPC coupled simulation of a 12,635‑atom protein system and automation of the computational workflow were recognized.
RIKEN’s JHPC-quantum has adopted QunaSys’ development kit. The environment will link HPCs such as Fugaku with IBM and Quantinuum quantum computers.
IBM has released the 120‑qubit Nighthawk r2. IBM says independent fast reset capability enables more than 100,000 circuit executions per second and reduces initialization errors.
A Qiskit tool that delays mapping to qubits to retain fermionic structure during compilation — aiding optimization of qubit circuits — has been released.
IBM announced a new architecture that connects box‑shaped cryogenic cells. It operated two prototype cells simultaneously and envisions each future cell supporting at least 2,000 qubits.
QOBLIB, which compares quantum and classical optimization methods under common conditions, has been expanded through a published paper and the launch of a dedicated website.
Q-CTRL reports executing the quantum Fourier transform on up to 100 qubits on IBM Heron r3, extracting the correct frequency as the most frequent measurement outcome.
Qubit counts and funding alone don’t tell the whole story. Quantum Index’s editorial team gave independent 3–5 year outlooks for 29 leading domestic and international quantum-related companies, evaluating technical feasibility, distance to commercialization, revenue, customer base, and more.
Three studies reported methods for assessing the reliability of quantum computations in regimes where classical computation cannot reproduce the answers, using space–time codes, error mitigation, and multiple quantum machines.
Q-CTRL outlines the conditions needed to commercialize quantum computers, using integration examples at RIKEN and Elevate Quantum to highlight the importance of HPC integration, operational automation, and workforce development.