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Mirrors borrowed from a telescope now flex in real time to undo atmospheric blur, steering single photons into a hair-thin fiber and adding a wireless leg to a US metro quantum network.
Japan's largest mobile carrier is now running quantum optimization inside its production network. A 333-base-station problem solved in roughly five minutes makes the category legible.
Rigetti split delivery from chip design the way a server vendor does. The 99.5% fidelity target is what the chip team is now free to chase.
Cornell's Fatemi group shows that swapping argon for krypton during tantalum deposition lets high-quality superconducting qubits form at 200°C, well within the heat ceiling of standard chip fabs, with coherence matching higher-temperature processes.
A tamper-resistant chip, certified to run NIST's post-quantum cryptography algorithms (Kyber for key exchange, Dilithium for digital signatures), will be designed into biometric fare-collection terminals in India, putting the cryptography at the
A Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) paper shows OTI Lumionics's Iterative Qubit Coupled Cluster algorithm running 200-plus qubit OLED emitter simulations on a single commodity CPU.
Backed by Israel's R&D funding arm, the Israel Innovation Authority, and chaired by Allot, a small Hod Hasharon network-security vendor, a new consortium will test quantum-resistant encryption (post-quantum cryptography) and physics-based key
Texas Quantum Partners and Samara broke ground on a 16.5-acre quantum campus near Austin, with anchor tenants, the system vendor, and partners still undisclosed.
A quantum gravity gradiometer detects tiny variations in Earth's gravity to map underground mineral deposits. Infleqtion's 2027 Colorado test is the parallel private signal, but field validation is pending.
NIST FIPS 140-3 Level 3 is the strong-tier U.S. validation for tamper-responsive hardware that guards encryption keys for banks, governments, and grid operators.