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Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and the Netherlands’ Quantum Delta NL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen international collaboration on the societal implementation of quantum technologies. The agreement was formalized during the HTDX conference in Osaka and focuses on fostering mutual engagement between Japan and the Netherlands to drive quantum innovation into industrial and social use cases. The partnership will be executed through AIST’s Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI Technology (G-QuAT) and will prioritize researcher exchange, joint project development, field lab cooperation, and knowledge-sharing activities such as symposiums and [...]

A team at Caltech led by Professor Manuel Endres has demonstrated hyper-entanglement in neutral atoms by simultaneously controlling their motion and internal energy states, marking a first for massive particles such as atoms. The researchers used optical tweezers to cool and trap alkaline-earth atoms, then applied active error-corrected cooling to bring atomic motion nearly to a standstill. This process enabled the team to excite atoms into superpositions of motion, forming the basis for encoding quantum information in their spatial oscillations. The atoms were subsequently entangled across both their motional and electronic degrees of freedom—achieving a form of hyper-entanglement where two quantum [...]

Chart Showing the Continued Improvement in the Estimated Number of Physical QubitsRequired to Factor a 2048 Bit RSA Integer In 2019, co-authors Craig Gidney and Martin Ekerå published a technical paper titled How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits. It describes a potential approach based upon Shor's algorithm and several subsequent research that would be able to factor this type of integer in an 8 hour period using a fault tolerant quantum computer that had a grid based topology with 4-way connectivity, a physical gate error rate of 10−3, a surface code cycle [...]

Q-CTRL has developed a quantum-enhanced solver for rail scheduling in collaboration with Network Rail and the UK Department for Transport. Using its Fire Opal performance optimization platform, Q-CTRL executed real-world scheduling problems on IBM quantum hardware, setting a new record for the largest constrained quantum optimization problem solved to date. The approach enabled accurate train routing for 26 trains at London Bridge Station over an 18-minute period, using a formulation that required 103 qubits. The project, supported by a £1 million ($1.4 million USD) award under the UK SBRI Quantum Catalyst Fund, targeted two rail scheduling sub-problems: station routing and train [...]

PINQ² and Distriq, two major players in Quebec’s quantum ecosystem, have entered into a strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption and commercialization of quantum technologies across Quebec and Canada. The collaboration aims to bridge research, infrastructure, and industrial deployment, targeting use cases ranging from logistics optimization to secure communications and quantum-enhanced simulations. The partnership brings together Distriq’s expertise as Sherbrooke’s Quantum Innovation Zone with PINQ²’s capabilities as an operator of Canada’s only IBM Quantum System One. Together, they will support companies of all sizes — from startups to large enterprises — by providing shared access to classical and quantum computing platforms, [...]

Paris-based quantum computing company Quandela has launched Belenos, a 12-qubit photonic quantum computer now available via cloud access to over 1,200 users across 30 countries. The system delivers 4,000 times more computing power than Quandela’s previous 6-qubit version released in 2022, and is expected to be integrated into a EuroHPC/GENCI supercomputing facility at France’s TGCC by late 2025. Belenos is part of Quandela’s Roadmap 2030, which targets 40 photonic qubits within three years. The next-generation system, Canopus, is slated for 2026 and will double the current qubit count, representing a 16 million-fold increase in power compared to 2022. Quandela emphasizes real-world [...]

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) has launched Qatar’s first national quantum computing laboratory through its College of Science and Engineering (CSE) and the Qatar Center for Quantum Computing (QC2). The initiative is supported by a $10 million research grant from the Ministry of Defence (MOD), marking a strategic investment in sovereign quantum capabilities. Led by Dr. Saif Al-Kuwari, Associate Professor at HBKU and Director of QC2, the lab will focus on research in quantum software, algorithms, error correction, cryptography, and benchmarking of hardware platforms. The launch reflects HBKU’s aim to develop indigenous quantum expertise and support real-world adoption of quantum technologies [...]

Quantinuum has announced the release of λambeq Gen II, the latest version of its open-source quantum natural language processing (QNLP) software. λambeq enables users to convert sentences into quantum circuits, which can then be executed on real quantum hardware. The update reflects five years of development since Quantinuum’s initial demonstration of QNLP and incorporates recent progress in both quantum hardware and linguistic formalism. Whereas earlier versions were based on DisCoCat (Distributional Compositional Categorical) semantics, Gen II introduces a new formalism called DisCoCirc that enables modeling of larger text structures and more expressive compositionality across language. DisCoCirc improves upon its predecessor by [...]

Quobly has announced €21 million ($23.7 million USD) in funding to accelerate the industrialization of its Q100T project, a silicon-based quantum processor with 100 physical qubits. The package includes a €15 million (17 million USD) grant from Bpifrance under the France 2030 program and €6 million in co-investment from Quobly’s own equity. The processor will be manufactured on 300 mm FD-SOI wafers, aligning with standard semiconductor industry tools and processes. Quobly’s technology builds on 15 years of research from CEA and CNRS and has already demonstrated spin qubits on 300 mm wafers. The goal is to transition from research prototypes to [...]

SemiQon, a Finnish provider of silicon quantum dot chips, has announced a new strategic partnership with Nanoacademic Technologies, a Canadian developer of advanced quantum simulation tools. The collaboration aims to accelerate research and education in scalable silicon-based quantum technologies by offering bundled access to SemiQon’s hardware and Nanoacademic’s QTCAD® simulation software. The bundled solution will combine SemiQon's ready-to-use spin-qubit chips, marketed under the SemiQit brand, with QTCAD®, a finite-element modeling tool optimized for semiconductor spin qubits. Also included is QTCAD® EDU, an educational version of the software designed for student training. These tools enable researchers to simulate device behavior using atomistic [...]