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46 developments since January 2025, newest first, each in a sentence with a source. Below them, the raw feed of the week.
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- 2026-09-17US Department of Energy — DOE opened the Quantum Genesis Q Competition: up to 215 million dollars, up to ten teams, a 10-logical-qubit prototype within about a year and a 100-logical-qubit fault-tolerant machine by autumn 2028, with a 100 million dollar pool for finishers.The June target became a funded contest with dated deliverables.Source: The Register
- 2026-07-31IonQ — IonQ completed its 1.8 billion dollar purchase of SkyWater after US Federal Trade Commission clearance.The first quantum company to own its own semiconductor fab.Source: Quantum Computing Report
- 2026-07-20Google Quantum AI — Google published in Nature a reinforcement-learning system that retunes Willow's control settings during error correction instead of pausing to recalibrate, making logical error rates about 3.5 times more stable and roughly 20 percent lower.Keeping an error-corrected machine tuned for days or weeks without a person recalibrating it is a requirement for long computations.Source: The Next Platform
- 2026-06-24Henry Legg, University of St Andrews — Nature published a peer-reviewed 'Matters Arising' challenge finding two coding errors in Microsoft's topological gap protocol, including code that showed only the single most favourable data region; Microsoft called the bugs minor and stood by its results.The formal, journal-level version of the dispute that began in 2025. The Majorana claim stays unresolved.Source: University of St Andrews
- 2026-06-23US Department of Energy — DOE announced Quantum Genesis, a plan for a fault-tolerant, scientifically useful quantum computer with 'low hundreds' of logical qubits by 2028, plus a National Quantum Supercomputing User Facility.A federal deadline a year ahead of IBM's and Quantinuum's own 2029 targets.Source: US Department of Energy
- 2026-06-04Quantinuum — Quantinuum listed on Nasdaq as QNT, selling 28 million shares at 60 dollars to raise 1.68 billion dollars; Honeywell kept about 48 percent of the voting power.The largest quantum IPO to date, valuing the company at around 14 to 15 billion dollars.Source: CNBC
- 2026-06-02Microsoft — Microsoft reported Majorana 2, swapping aluminium for lead in its device stack, with a doubled protective energy gap and 'parity lifetimes' over 20 seconds, up from milliseconds, in a company technical paper rather than a peer-reviewed journal.A large measured improvement. Critics said it does not answer whether the devices host Majorana states at all.Source: The Quantum Insider
- 2026-05-21Flatiron Institute and Boston University — A new tensor-network method reproduced D-Wave's March 2025 'beyond classical' magnetic simulation on ordinary computers, including a laptop, published in Science.It overturns the D-Wave claim. Ordinary methods keep moving the line that quantum hardware has to beat.Source: Simons Foundation
- 2026-05-13University of Science and Technology of China — Jiuzhang 4.0, a programmable light-based machine, sent 1,024 squeezed light pulses through an 8,176-path circuit and detected up to 3,050 photons in one run, published in Nature; the team says the hardest samples would take a supercomputer over 10^42 years.It answers the ordinary-computer methods that had undermined the earlier Jiuzhang results, and is the largest photonic sampling experiment to date.Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2026-04-14Pasqal — Pasqal reported loading 1,024 atoms into a register with no gaps (under 0.5 percent defects), following a 506-atom register in April 2025.A full, gap-free array of over 1,000 atoms is the starting condition for running error-correction codes on that many qubits.Source: Pasqal
- 2026-03-27Xanadu — The photonic company Xanadu began trading on Nasdaq and the TSX as XNDU after a 3.1 billion dollar SPAC merger, with about 262 million dollars in net proceeds plus Canadian government investment.The first publicly listed photonic quantum company.Source: BNN Bloomberg
- 2026-03-24Google Quantum AI — Google added a neutral-atom hardware programme, led by Adam Kaufman, alongside its superconducting Willow line, saying the two are complementary: one for deep circuits, the other for large qubit counts.The company behind the most-cited superconducting results is now hedging across two hardware families.Source: Google (The Keyword)
- 2026-03-10DARPA — DARPA opened a new Stage A round of the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative for companies not yet in the programme, noting 11 firms in Stage B and two in Stage C; a new director said it 'now seems likely' someone builds a utility-scale machine by 2033.The government's assessment shifted from whether to who.Source: DARPA
- 2026-03-04Pasqal — Pasqal raised at least 340 million euros and agreed to merge with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II for a Nasdaq listing at a 2 billion dollar valuation.Europe's leading neutral-atom company becomes publicly traded, with a Paris listing to follow.Source: Pasqal
- 2026-02-17Infleqtion — The neutral-atom company Infleqtion listed on the NYSE as INFQ through a merger with Churchill Capital Corp X, receiving over 550 million dollars.The first neutral-atom hardware company on a public market.Source: Quantum Computing Report
- 2026-02unconfirmed Iceberg Quantum — A Sydney start-up published an architecture using qLDPC codes that it estimates could break RSA-2048 with fewer than 100,000 physical qubits, about a tenth of Gidney's 2025 figure.The resource bar for the quantum threat moved down again, ahead of the hardware.Source: The Quantum Insider · Reported via a secondary summary; the preprint itself was not fetched.
- 2026-01-27unconfirmed University of Chicago, Stanford, MIT, Innsbruck, Delft — A Science paper led by David Awschalom argued quantum technology has reached the point the transistor reached in the late 1940s: the physics works and the remaining problems are engineering, manufacturing and modular design.It framed 2026 as the start of a scaling era rather than a discovery era.Source: ScienceDaily · Exact Science issue date not confirmed.
- 2026-01-26IonQ — IonQ agreed to buy the chip foundry SkyWater Technology for about 1.8 billion dollars in cash and stock; the purchase closed on 31 July 2026 after FTC clearance.A quantum company with its own US chip fab, shortening the loop between design and hardware.Source: IonQ
- 2026-01-07D-Wave — D-Wave agreed to buy Quantum Circuits Inc., a Yale spin-out building error-corrected superconducting gate-model machines, for about 550 million dollars; the deal closed 20 January 2026.The annealing company now has a second hardware line and a gate-model roadmap.Source: D-Wave
- 2025-11-12Harvard, MIT and QuEra — A 448-atom neutral-atom processor combined every ingredient of an error-corrected computer (entangling, logical operations, 'magic' states for universal computing, and error removal) and showed errors falling as the code grew, published in Nature.Lead author Dolev Bluvstein called it the first architecture that is 'conceptually scalable'; press reports describe 96 logical qubits on the device.Source: Harvard Gazette
- 2025-11-12IBM — IBM unveiled Nighthawk, a 120-qubit chip with a square grid layout supporting circuits of about 5,000 two-qubit operations, and Loon, a test chip carrying every hardware element its qLDPC error-correction design needs; it also joined an open 'quantum advantage tracker'.Nighthawk is the machine IBM expects to show community-verified advantage on by the end of 2026; Loon is the first physical piece of the Starling plan.Source: IBM Newsroom
- 2025-11-06DARPA — DARPA moved 11 companies (Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM, IonQ, Nord Quantique, Photonic, Quantinuum, Quantum Motion, QuEra, Silicon Quantum Computing, Xanadu) to Stage B of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, a year-long review of their plans for a useful machine by 2033.The first independent government screening of which hardware approaches are credible. Google, Microsoft, PsiQuantum, Rigetti and D-Wave were not on the list.Source: DARPA
- 2025-11-05Quantinuum — Quantinuum launched Helios, a 98-qubit trapped-ion computer with two-qubit accuracy of 99.921 percent and a new programming language, Guppy, and reported a materials simulation it says ordinary methods cannot match.The most accurate commercial machine on offer, and the first designed for real-time error correction.Source: Quantinuum
- 2025-10-22Google Quantum AI — Google's Willow chip ran an algorithm called Quantum Echoes that measures how a disturbance spreads through a quantum system, about 13,000 times faster than the best ordinary method, published in Nature.Unlike the earlier random-sampling benchmarks, the answer is a physical quantity another machine can check. Google calls it the first verifiable quantum advantage.Source: Google Research
- 2025-10-21IonQ (Oxford Ionics team) — IonQ reported a two-qubit operation with better than 99.99 percent accuracy on trapped ions using electronic control, without first cooling the ions to their lowest motional state.Past the 'four nines' level that error-correction designs assume, and beyond Oxford Ionics' 2024 record of 99.97 percent.Source: arXiv
- 2025-10-07Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences — John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1984–85 experiments showing that a superconducting circuit big enough to hold in the hand tunnels and has discrete energy levels like an atom.Those experiments are the physical basis of the superconducting qubits used by Google, IBM and others.Source: NobelPrize.org
- 2025-09-25Alice & Bob — The company reported its cat qubits resisting bit-flip errors for 33 to 60 minutes, up from about seven minutes in 2024.Past the 13 minutes its 2030 machine design needs, and a sign these qubits shrug off cosmic-ray hits.Source: Alice & Bob
- 2025-09-24Caltech — A Caltech group trapped 6,100 caesium atoms in laser tweezers, held them in superposition for about 13 seconds and controlled single atoms with 99.98 percent accuracy, published in Nature.The largest qubit array assembled, and size did not cost quality. The atoms were not yet entangled.Source: Caltech
- 2025-09-17Harvard, MIT and QuEra — A neutral-atom system of more than 3,000 qubits ran continuously for over two hours, with lost atoms replaced on the fly by conveyor-belt lasers at up to 300,000 atoms a second, published in Nature.Atom loss had forced these machines to stop and reload; continuous operation removes that limit on run length.Source: Phys.org
- 2025-09-10PsiQuantum — PsiQuantum raised 1 billion dollars at a 7 billion dollar valuation, led by BlackRock with NVIDIA participating, to build data-centre-scale photonic machines in Brisbane and Chicago.The largest single private round in the field; it funds the first two purpose-built quantum computing sites.Source: PsiQuantum
- 2025-09-04Quantinuum (Honeywell) — Quantinuum raised 600 million dollars at a 10 billion dollar valuation, with NVIDIA's venture arm and Quanta among new investors.The highest valuation for a private quantum company at the time; it paid for the Helios launch.Source: Honeywell
- 2025-07-17Atom Computing and Microsoft — Denmark's new QuNorth venture ordered Magne, a neutral-atom machine with 1,225 physical and 50 logical (error-corrected) qubits, to be built in Copenhagen and ready around the start of 2027.The first purchase of a computer specified in logical rather than raw qubits.Source: Quantum Computing Report
- 2025-06-19Microsoft — Microsoft published a family of four-dimensional error-correcting codes it says can cut error rates a thousandfold using five to six times fewer physical qubits than the surface code, for hardware where any qubit can talk to any other.A cheaper error-correction recipe for ion, atom and photonic machines than the one designed for chips.Source: Microsoft Azure Quantum blog
- 2025-06-12University of Oxford — Oxford physicists ran a single-qubit operation on a trapped calcium ion with one error in 6.7 million attempts, published in Physical Review Letters.The most accurate qubit operation recorded; the control electronics, not the physics, set the limit.Source: University of Oxford
- 2025-06-10IBM — IBM set out a plan to build Starling, a 200-logical-qubit error-corrected computer, by 2029, using qLDPC codes it says need about a tenth of the physical qubits of the surface code; the steps named were Loon (2025), Kookaburra (2026) and Cockatoo (2027).The first dated, part-by-part roadmap to a large fault-tolerant machine from a major vendor.Source: IBM Newsroom
- 2025-06-09IonQ — IonQ agreed to buy Oxford Ionics for 1.075 billion dollars, mostly in stock; the deal closed on 16 September 2025.The two main trapped-ion companies combined, and IonQ got Oxford Ionics' laser-free electronic qubit control.Source: IonQ
- 2025-05-21Google Quantum AI (Craig Gidney) — A preprint estimated that a future error-corrected computer with under one million physical qubits could break RSA-2048 encryption in under a week, down from a 2019 estimate of 20 million.The assumed timeline for the threat to today's encryption got shorter, and migration planning sped up.Source: arXiv
- 2025-03-26Quantinuum, JPMorganChase, Argonne, Oak Ridge, UT Austin — Using a 56-qubit trapped-ion machine, the team generated random numbers and used supercomputers to certify they were fresh and random, published in Nature.The first published task where a quantum computer produced a result an ordinary machine could check but not fake.Source: Nature
- 2025-03-21Henry Legg (St Andrews) and others — Physicists including Legg, Eun-Ah Kim and Javad Shabani said Microsoft's data were too noisy to show topological behaviour and that its 'topological gap protocol' test could give false positives.Majorana 1 became the most contested hardware claim of the period, setting up the formal Nature challenge of 2026.Source: Physics (APS)
- 2025-03-12D-Wave — D-Wave published in Science a simulation of magnetic materials on its Advantage2 annealer that it said would take a supercomputer nearly a million years; other groups said ordinary methods could match parts of it.The first 'beyond classical' claim on a problem with a practical shape. The dispute it started was largely settled against it in May 2026.Source: D-Wave
- 2025-03-11NIST — NIST chose HQC, a code-based encryption scheme, as a fifth post-quantum standard to back up the lattice-based ML-KEM adopted in FIPS 203 in 2024, with a draft promised in about a year and a final version by 2027.A second, mathematically different lock for the internet in case the main one is picked.Source: NIST
- 2025-03-03University of Science and Technology of China — The team published Zuchongzhi 3.0, a 105-qubit superconducting processor, and a random-circuit sampling benchmark it estimates would take the Frontier supercomputer billions of years.China's superconducting hardware at roughly the level of Google's Willow on the same benchmark.Source: Physical Review Letters
- 2025-02-26PsiQuantum — PsiQuantum described Omega, a set of light-based (photonic) quantum chips made on a standard GlobalFoundries production line, in a Nature paper.A quantum chipset came off a conventional semiconductor fab rather than a laboratory.Source: PsiQuantum
- 2025-02-19Microsoft — Microsoft announced Majorana 1, a chip it said holds eight 'topological' qubits built from a new indium-arsenide and aluminium material, alongside a Nature paper on reading such devices out.The first hardware claim for a qubit type that would in principle need far less error correction. Nature's editors noted the paper itself did not show evidence of the Majorana states the chip relies on.Source: Microsoft Azure Quantum blog
- 2025-02-11QuEra Computing — The neutral-atom company closed a 230 million dollar round with Google and SoftBank as new investors; NVIDIA's venture arm joined in September 2025.Backing for neutral atoms, the hardware family that went on to produce the year's largest error-correction demonstrations.Source: Bloomberg
- 2025-01-20Alice & Bob — The Paris start-up raised 100 million euros to develop 'cat qubits', a superconducting qubit built so one of the two main kinds of error is suppressed in the hardware, so fewer qubits are needed for error correction.Europe's largest quantum hardware round at the time, and money behind an alternative to the surface code used by Google and IBM.Source: HPCwire
This week's feed
Fetched 2026-09-22 15:26 UTC by tools/fetch_recent.py, which a GitHub Actions job runs every Monday. Titles as published; nothing here has been read by a person before it appears. Papers are from arXiv quant-ph; news is from the feeds named on each row.
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- 2026-09-21A thermal microwave bus for neutral atom quantum computingMatthew J. H. Kendall, Christopher J. Watson, Michael Ben Shem, and others
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- 2026-09-18Modular fault-tolerant quantum computing on a non-CSS codeRobert Freund, Friederike Butt, César Benito, and others
- 2026-09-18Single-atom-based asynchronous photonic interconnect for scalable modular quantum computingJérémy Raskop, Nadav Kandel, Yaniv Amichy, and others
- 2026-09-18Ensemble Dependence of the Critical Exponent at a Quantum Error Correction ThresholdIdan Dror, Moshe Goldstein
- 2026-09-18From sparse quantum-computing data to atomistic simulation with universal machine-learning interatomic potentialsTuan Minh Do, Yuichiro Yoshida, Kenji Ishihara, and others
- 2026-09-18Unconditional quantum advantage from a two-round CHSH problem in one dimensionYonghae Lee, Jeonghyeon Shin, Soojoon Lee
- 2026-09-17Blind Quantum Computation with a Small Quantum ServerDaniel Lovsted, Filipa C. R. Peres, Joshua Nevin, and others
- 2026-09-17FT-Weave: Real-Time Compilation Framework for Reconfigurable Fault-Tolerant Quantum ArchitecturesWan-Hsuan Lin, Milan Kornjača, Chen Zhao, and others
- 2026-09-17Scalable logical qubitsMatthias Troyer, Chetan Nayak, John Martinis
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- 2026-09-17The effects of shot noise on the quantum computation of NMR spectraSebastian Walch, Keith R. Fratus, Jan-Michael Reiner, and others
- 2026-09-17State-Space-Based FIR Filtering on a Quantum ComputerRoope Salmi, Davide Rocchesso, Vesa Välimäki
- 2026-09-17Quantum WalkScore: Benchmarking Quantum Computers on the Graph Nodefinding ProblemNoé Olivier, Michel Nowak
- 2026-09-17Quantum computers will not be that different: A blueprint for quantum computer architecture at scaleTorsten Hoefler, Matthias Troyer
- 2026-09-16Efficiently estimating failure rates of fault-tolerant logical non-Clifford blocksJulio C. Magdalena de la Fuente, Thomas R. Scruby
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- 2026-09-16Impact of a CSS quantum error correction code in underwater quantum key distributionJuliette Florin, Nicolas Le Josse, Arnaud Coatanhay, and others
- 2026-09-16Optical Quantum ComputingHamza Hasnaoui, Leonardo Limongi, Taira Giordani, and others
- 2026-09-15Quantum Compiler Design for Fault-Tolerant Quantum ComputingChenghong Zhu, Jiahan Chen, Keming He, and others
- 2026-09-15Large-scale NMR simulation on a trapped-ion quantum computerPascal Stadler, Alec Owens, Etienne Granet, and others
- 2026-09-15Environmental records unlock universal quantum computation from thermal decoherenceChenfeng Cao, Qi Zhao
- 2026-09-14Error-corrected function estimation advantage in multiparameter HamiltoniansErfan Abbasgholinejad, Lorcán O. Conlon, Sean R. Muleady, and others
- 2026-09-14$d$-pod realization of nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computationOskar Axelsson, Claes Fälth, Elias Henriksson Lindberg, and others
- 2026-09-14Towards Block-Level Fault-Tolerant Quantum Simulation on Small High-Rate Non-CSS CodesZhuangzhuang Chen, Narayanan Rengaswamy
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- 2026-09-22Quantum protocol securely verifies a device's position using stations 2 km apartPhys.org — quantum physics
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- 2026-09-21Quantum communication protocol enables three users to establish a shared secure keyPhys.org — quantum physics
- 2026-09-21Scientists teleport quantum states across 100 parallel optical channelsPhys.org — quantum physics
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How this page changes
The ledger is data/developments.json in the repository, last edited 2026-09-22. Anyone can open a pull request against it; a row needs a date, a source and one plain sentence. The feed is data/recent.json, rewritten by the Monday job, which then rebuilds the site.