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IBM Quantum System Two in Poughkeepsie, New York. The machine was used in the experiments conducted by University of Sydney quantum physicists. Photo: IBM A joint research collaboration between the University of Sydney Nano Institute and IBM Quantum has identified, isolated, and mitigated a major hardware engineering bottleneck hindering Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC). Published in Nature Communications by lead author Dr. Robin Harper and project lead Professor Stephen Bartlett, the study provides the first comprehensive quantitative benchmark of errors introduced directly by mid-circuit measurements (MCMs). The international project—co-funded by the U.S. government's Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)—demonstrates an architectural workaround [...]

A research collaboration led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has successfully simulated hadronization—the fundamental particle physics process where quarks bind via the strong nuclear force to create composite hadrons like protons and neutrons—on a physical quantum processor. Executed by LBNL research scientist Anthony Ciavarella and published in Physical Review D, the simulation mapped real-time string-breaking dynamics using 104 active qubits on an IBM Heron processor (ibm_torino). The access pipeline was facilitated by the Quantum Computer User Program (QCUP), a federal cloud-access infrastructure framework managed by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [ LBNL [...]

The municipal government of Shanghai has accelerated its multi-district industrial layout by executing sequential rollouts of two primary quantum infrastructure developments: the newly unveiled "Zhangjiang Quantum Bay" in the Pudong New Area on June 27, 2026, followed by the launch of the Shanghai Quantum Computing Future Industry Incubation Zone in Xuhui District on June 30, 2026. Formally integrated into the municipal roadmap during the 2026 Quantum Computing Technology and Industry Ecosystem Conference, this coordinated expansion increases Shanghai’s specialized corporate ecosystem to over 60 quantum-related enterprises spanning the entire technology chain from upstream raw material synthesis to midstream hardware assemblies and downstream [...]

Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) has appointed Karna Nisewaner as Chief Legal Officer, effective June 1, 2026. Nisewaner has over 25 years of legal experience within the semiconductor and artificial intelligence sectors, most recently serving as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Cadence Design Systems. Based in Palo Alto, California, she will oversee SQC’s global corporate governance, intellectual property portfolio, and regulatory compliance as the company advances its atomic-precision silicon quantum roadmap. The official announcement is available here. Pasqal has named Stéphane Rougeot as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Rougeot has previously served as CFO and executive leader at publicly listed European technology [...]

IBM Quantum has released a technical review detailing the initial research outcomes generated by its expanded IBM Quantum Credits program. Spearheaded by IBM Fellow and Director of IBM Research Jay Gambetta, the merit-based program allocates free, direct processing time on high-performance quantum computing units (QPUs) to tenure-track faculty and corporate research scientists. The initiative aims to shift quantum research away from merely running existing legacy datasets through alternative backends, instead prioritizing the co-design and validation of novel, hardware-efficient algorithms capable of optimizing utility-scale hardware performance within 5 to 10 hours of dedicated execution time. [ IBM Quantum Credits Impact Matrix ] [...]

IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna has confirmed that the greenfield city of Amaravati will host one of the first two physical IBM quantum computers deployed on-shore in India. Targeted for full operational commissioning by September 2026, the hardware deployment represents a key anchor transaction for the state of Andhra Pradesh's Quantum Valley initiative. The on-premises installation aims to position the regional capital as the country's primary deep-tech innovation hub, shifting India's role in the sector from purely a remote consumer of cloud-routed compute blocks to a localized sovereign developer of physical quantum hardware. [ Amaravati Quantum Valley Deployment [...]

South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) has leveraged the Quantum Korea 2026 exhibition at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul as a centralized geopolitical cooperation platform. Amid tightening global export controls on deep-tech materials, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Hongwoong Bae along with First Vice Minister Hyeok-chae Koo led a series of intergovernmental roundtables. The multilateral frameworks are engineered to link South Korea's sovereign research infrastructure directly with trusted international partners across 16 countries, mitigating supply chain vulnerabilities by standardizing cross-border R&D protocols. [ MSIT Bilateral Quantum Frameworks ] Canada Alliance ──► Joint NRF-NSERC [...]

Finnish quantum hardware developer SemiQon has secured a strategic equity investment from PostScriptum, the specialized founder's office directed by technologist Peter Sarlin (Co-Founder of Silo AI). The financial injection directly supports the commercial scale-up and volume manufacturing of SemiQon’s proprietary silicon-based Cryo-CMOS control and readout microchips. Coinciding with the transaction, PostScriptum announced a comprehensive €30 million ($34.35 million USD) capital commitment dedicated explicitly to financing foundational hardware layer technologies—such as cryo-electronics, advanced sub-kelvin attenuation, and cooling modules—required to transition quantum computers into the million-qubit execution era. [ SemiQon Operational Infrastructure ] Spin-Out Origin ──► VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd [...]

Deep-tech startup xDots has unveiled its quantum-based industrial hardware infrastructure stack at Quantum Korea 2026, held at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul. Hosted by the South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT, the pan-national tech exhibition brought together 56 corporations and research institutions across 12 countries under the overarching operational directive, "Quantum in Action, Grand Challenges for Innovation." At the center of the exhibition, xDots demonstrated its commercial xEnergy architecture, a live hardware and software environment that integrates advanced physics with multi-agent artificial intelligence to address power hyper-inflation within massive production plants and high-density data centers. [ xEnergy System [...]

Swiss-registered blockchain network QoreChain has recorded a transaction on its live public mainnet utilizing a complete, end-to-end post-quantum cryptography (PQC) stack. The transaction involved a transfer of 1,000 QOR executed on July 2, 2026, routing directly into a standard address generated via the open-source Keplr self-custody wallet. While individual decentralized protocols have previously implemented partial quantum-resistant signatures at the transaction edge, this network deployment marks a milestone by applying standardized post-quantum math across the protocol's entire cryptographic path—covering signatures, key exchanges, and hash functions simultaneously. [ QoreChain Full-Stack PQC Architecture ] Signature Layer ──► ML-DSA-87 (FIPS 204 / Dilithium-5) Category 5 [...]