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Qruise and Quantum Machines have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate quantum research and development. Quantum Machines will offer Qruise's advanced machine learning software as an add-on to its OPX quantum controllers, providing enhanced control and characterization of quantum devices. The collaboration combines Qruise's expertise in software for device calibration and characterization with Quantum Machines' state-of-the-art hardware, enabling researchers to optimize quantum systems and improve superconducting gate fidelities. This integration will generate highly accurate Digital Twins of quantum systems, helping labs identify and address performance limitations. By streamlining quantum device characterization and control, the partnership aims to accelerate the development of [...]

Elevate Quantum and the Colorado School of Mines have launched the Quantum Commons campus in Arvada, Colorado, following a $40.5 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce along additional funding from the Colorado state government aimed at developing a quantum technology hub in the region. The 70-acre campus will serve as a research and innovation park, fostering collaboration between startups, academic institutions, and private companies to accelerate the development and commercialization of quantum technology. The Quantum Commons will include clean-room labs, shared facilities, and office space, enabling quantum startups to commercialize their technologies. Colorado School of Mines has committed [...]

Quantum Brilliance and ParityQC have been awarded a one of the three contracts by Cyberagentur, Germany’s agency for innovation in cybersecurity, to develop the world’s first mobile quantum computer by 2027. The €35 million project aims (total for this and two other contracts) to advance miniaturized quantum technology for defense, security, and civilian applications, positioning Germany as a leader in technological innovation. Quantum Brilliance will focus on miniaturizing quantum chips using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds, which can operate at room temperature, while ParityQC will develop scalable quantum architecture and an operating system. The collaboration is designed to address the challenges [...]

By Amara Graps In my Part 1 article, I concluded that there are parts of the German Quantum Technology Ecosystem, that look fragmented. Those will have an effect on Investments; let’s take a look. Quantum Technology Investments in Germany In GQI’s Investment Tracker, you can isolate countries, and with calendar date periods, you can study that country’s quantum investment record for configured dates. Here is the full record for Germany: Figure. From GQI’s Investment Tracker where a country-by-country assessment can be made. (*) The “Investor’s Overview” above this screen a gives you a graphical view of the type and direction of [...]

IQM Quantum Computers has announced a significant production milestone, reaching the manufacturing of 30 full-stack quantum computers at its Espoo, Finland facility. This facility, capable of producing up to 20 quantum computers annually, houses Europe’s only private quantum chip factory and a dedicated assembly line. IQM has also completed the delivery of six on-premises quantum computers to customers, including VTT, LRZ, and Forschungszentrum Jülich. The other 24 systems are used to support IQM's cloud services, future customer shipments, and internal engineering. Co-CEO Mikko Välimäki noted that this achievement aims to reduce the high costs associated with quantum computers by industrializing production, [...]

One of the limiters in the adoption of quantum computing is what we see as the gap between the subject matter experts in an organization and the quantum computational scientists who better understand how quantum works. In order to lessen this gap IBM and its partners have just made some announcements that will improve the user experience with Qiskit by making it easier to use through additional functions and tools. These tools will make it quicker an easier to get the best results from the available quantum hardware. To do this, IBM has introduced a new capability called the Qiskit Functions Catalog. [...]

Many of the new announcements regarding advancements in quantum computing technology revolve around new milestones about the qubits or the discovery of new algorithms. However, another important area that is also continuing to improve is what GQI calls the MidStack. As can be seen in the picture above, this encompasses portions in the middle of the quantum stack that includes the Framework, Architecture, and Control Logic. (You can download several of the reports from GQI dealing with the MidStack from the GQI Reports page.) IBM and its partners have just made several announcements that will improve the user experience with Qiskit [...]

BQP has reported progress in using quantum computers to perform large-scale Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. Their research suggests that a jet engine simulation, which currently requires 19.2 million HPC cores, could be completed using just 30 logical qubits. The study, conducted using a hybrid quantum-classical solver on their BQPhy® platform, demonstrated accuracy and scalability comparable to classical computing methods. While BQP’s work highlights the potential of quantum computing to improve simulation efficiency, the claims hinge on the development of utility-scale quantum computers, which are not yet available. The research signals long-term potential, but practical implementation remains dependent on advances in [...]

By Amara Graps Germans are Less Attached to their Quantum Computers “How important is it for you, where the quantum computer was developed?” might invoke forms of pride, if one was attached to the company, to the town, to the university (spin-off), or to the quantum computer’s country.   However, only about a quarter of the German respondents in QuEra’s July 2024 Survey felt that Germany producing its own QPU was important. See Figure 8 of the QuEra  Survey Report: The Current and Future State of Quantum Computing July 2024. Figure. Reproduced from Figure 8 from the QuEra:  Survey Report: The [...]

By Amara Graps French: Fewer in Surveyed-Number, but More Confident than the Germans “Confident” is how I would describe the French in Figure 5 of QuEra's recent  Survey Report: The Current and Future State of Quantum Computing. The question to the French respondents was How well-positioned is their country in the global quantum computing industry? They were fewer in number in the survey than the Germans by half, yet ~67% considered their country, very well positioned. On the other hand, the German respondents were more in number, but less confident: Only about 44% felt that Germany is very well positioned in [...]