Mohamed Abdel-Kareem

Dual-platform quantum hardware supplier D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) has been awarded a $1,566,250 sub-grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Distributed through the NSF’s National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) program, the funding positions D-Wave as the primary industrial implementation partner for the Yale University-led project ERASE (Erasure Qubits and Dynamic Circuits for Quantum Advantage). The award moves the ERASE consortium into its formal Phase II lifecycle—supported by a broader $4 million agency allocation over two years—to build out software, compiler, and error-correction layers optimized for fault-tolerant gate-model quantum computing. Under the terms of the infrastructure agreement, D-Wave will deliver [...]

(A) Aromatic π-π stacking interactions exist in protein and protein complexes. (B) Overview of the workflow using TRIP for direct measurement of π-π stacking in the dimers of SARS-CoV-2 main protease, Mpro. A interdisciplinary research team spanning the Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (IQSE) and the departments of Chemistry, Biology, and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University has invented a label-free optical platform called Thermostable Raman Interaction Profiling (TRIP). Published in the journal Science Advances, the biophysical breakthrough achieves the first direct, non-invasive quantification of aromatic π–π stacking interactions within complex protein environments under near-physiological aqueous conditions. By [...]

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a formal public-private partnership agreement with nonprofit research and development institution SRI International to establish the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center (QMEC). Backed by an initial $20 million investment from NIST, the specialized center is engineered to bridge a critical transition gap in the domestic technology pipeline, moving advanced quantum physics frameworks out of isolated laboratory setups and into standardized, commercial production lines. [ Fundamental Quantum Research (NIST Lab Bench) ] │ ▼ [ Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center (QMEC) ] (Managed by SRI International • Initial $20M Capital) [...]

Telecommunications giant China Telecom Quantum Group has officially brought the Tianyan-P2000 photonic quantum computer into formal production operation. Connected directly to the company's public Tianyan quantum cloud infrastructure, the integration establishes the world's first multi-tenant network fabric capable of delivering verified quantum computational advantage through both photonic and superconducting physical modalities. Developed in partnership with Jiuzhang (Jinan) Quantum Technology Co., under the guidance of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, the web deployment scales up China Telecom's cloud capacity. It builds upon previous platform expansions, such as the 504-qubit superconducting Tianyan-504 cluster [...]

A quantum circuit demonstrating the structure of a singular spacetime Pauli check. The ancilla is represented by the purple qubit/top wire, and four target/payload qubits are represented in blue. IBM Quantum has officially launched Qiskit Paulice (qiskit-paulice), an open-source Qiskit software add-on engineered to automatically identify, score, and inject hardware-efficient error-detection loops into arbitrary quantum circuits. Co-developed by IBM researchers Simon Martiel and Ali Javadi-Abhari, the package introduces spacetime Pauli checks to mitigate hardware noise profiles on current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) chips. Unlike conventional hardware-intensive Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) layouts slated for 2029 deployment, or time-intensive error-mitigation methods like Zero-Noise [...]

The Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye, Secretariat of Defence Industries (SSB) has officially unveiled the SSB Quantum Program, establishing a comprehensive, sovereign roadmap designed to cement the nation's technological independence across quantum computing, quantum sensing, and secure quantum communications. Formulated under the Quantum Focus Technology Network (OTAĞ) process, the strategic infrastructure plan synthesizes contributions from 305 technical experts across 123 defense, academic, and military organizations. The implementation blueprint targets 85 priority technology areas, structurally bifurcated into 34 short-term and 51 long-term operational benchmarks. The multi-tiered initiative aligns with Türkiye's broader national defense doctrine to minimize external dependency on foreign technical [...]

A research team at QuTech—a collaborative institute between the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)—has demonstrated a highly efficient and coherent light-matter interface linking a diamond-based quantum emitter to photons trapped inside a nanoscopic optical cavity. Published in the journal Physical Review X (PRX) and supervised by principal investigator Prof. Ronald Hanson, the hardware milestone resolves a long-standing bottleneck in quantum information infrastructure: achieving reliable, low-noise handshakes between stationary solid-state matter qubits and flying photonic qubits. Beyond accelerating remote entanglement distribution across long-range quantum internet nodes, the scalable nanophotonic architecture provides a [...]

LFI has appointed Michael Datta to its Board of Advisors, effective June 20, 2026. Datta is a veteran operator in defense and manufacturing sectors with over 20 years of experience founding, scaling, and advising companies across the US-Australia corridor. He is currently Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Ares Armaments and a Strategic Advisor at Noosa Partners. His mandate will focus on converting LFI’s Quantum Value Stages™ strategy into commercial traction and revenue generation with clients. The official press release is available here. BTQ Technologies has appointed Brandt Pasco as U.S. Strategic Advisor for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and Security. Pasco, whose [...]

The Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation’s Future Technologies Initiative (FTI) has finalized a landmark global community framework outlining the core architectural, mechanical, thermal, and electrical integration rules required to deploy Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) inside production data centers and automated AI factories. The joint white paper—co-authored by a multi-disciplinary consortium including the National Quantum Computing Center (NQCC), Dell Technologies, NVIDIA, IBM, Pasqal, Qblox, D-Wave, IonQ, IQM, and Diraq—redefines quantum systems from isolated laboratory hardware setups into modular, rack-schedulable enterprise infrastructure assets. The standardization framework comes as corporate strategic planning windows for data center facility development expand from traditional 2-to-3-year horizons out [...]

Photonic quantum processing unit for quantum and classical machine learning tasks. A collaborative research group consisting of quantum information scientists from Quandela, the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the University of Warsaw has experimentally demonstrated a scalable physical Quantum Machine Learning (QML) architecture. Supported by the European Union’s Horizon Europe QUONDENSATE Pathfinder project, the team utilized a programmable silicon photonic Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) excited by single-photon states to perform both classical machine learning classification and intrinsically quantum information processing tasks. Crucially, the hardware deployment introduces a practical method to overcome exponential scaling bottlenecks in [...]