quantum computing

Dutch quantum chip firm QuantWare closes a record $178M Series B to scale its VIO processor platform and open KiloFab, the world's largest dedicated quantum foundry.

Google Quantum AI and Google.org are funding five universities to develop quantum sensors and algorithms for molecular biology, targeting drug discovery and human health.

ETH Zurich researchers published a Nature paper demonstrating noise-resistant geometric-phase swap gates for neutral-atom qubits, achieving 99.91% fidelity simultaneously across 17,000 qubit pairs in under a millisecond.

SkyWater Technology stockholders voted this week to adopt the $1.8 billion cash-and-stock merger with IonQ, leaving regulatory approvals as the main remaining condition before a Q2 or Q3 2026 close.

Quantum software startup Algorithmiq raised 18 million euros co-led by CDP Venture Capital and United Ventures, relocated its global headquarters to Milan, and pushed total funding to 36 million euros in what investors call Italy's largest quantum VC round.

Powell and Buchalter show in Physical Review B that periodically switched magnetic fluxes through a Harper-Hofstadter lattice can produce topological phases that no equilibrium material can host.

A 120-qubit simulation finished in two minutes versus more than 100 hours classically, with the team also reporting direct observation of spin-charge separation on 62 qubits.

London-based Quantum Motion has raised $160 million in Series C funding co-led by DCVC and Kembara to commercialize silicon-CMOS quantum processors that the company says fit in three standard server racks.

A University of Oxford group has experimentally demonstrated quadsqueezing, a fourth-order quantum interaction long thought too weak to observe, by harnessing non-commutativity between two laser-driven forces on a single trapped ion.

Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and University of Oxford encoded the Hepatitis D virus genome onto IBM's 156-qubit Heron processor, marking the first time a complete genome has been processed on quantum hardware.

A quantum-inspired tensor network method achieves exponential speedup on topological quasicrystals, opening a feedback loop between quantum materials and quantum computer design.

DARPA's Heterogeneous Architectures for Quantum program will fund 19 teams over 24 months to combine different qubit types into unified quantum systems, abandoning the single-technology approach.