Quantum Computing
Hardware breakthroughs, error correction, and real-world progress toward practical quantum computing.
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JION Brings Laser-Free Trapped-Ion Computing to a German Supercomputer
A quantum computer that skips lasers entirely might be the one that finally survives mass production. Here’s why Germany’s newest machine trades optics for plain microwaves.
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MIT’s New Arm Qubit Could Make Quantum Computers 10 Times Faster
What if the biggest bottleneck in quantum computing was never the qubit itself, but how fast you can read it? MIT engineers think they just found a way around that trade-off.
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QuEra’s Laser Automation Fixes Quantum Computers in Seconds
Could an AI agent really run unsupervised experiments on live lab hardware overnight and get it right 99% of the time? QuEra just proved it can.
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Diraq’s Silicon Spin Quantum Computer Moves Into a Data Center
What does it take to make a quantum computer boring, in the best possible way? Diraq and Equinix are about to find out by bolting one into a working data center in Sydney.
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Osaka’s Photonic Chip Links Ten Quantum Processors in Parallel
No single chip will ever hold the million-plus qubits a useful quantum computer needs. Osaka researchers just showed how ten separate processors could talk to each other instead.
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Quantum Gravimetric Navigation Crosses the Coral Sea Without GPS
Nearly a million GPS jamming events hit ships worldwide last quarter alone. Q-CTRL just proved a quantum sensor can steer a ship through the Coral Sea without needing a satellite signal at all.
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Qubit Compression Technique Triples Data Density on IBM’s Quantum Chip
A single qubit that reads three answers at once just helped run a real drug-discovery calculation on IBM hardware. Could this be the trick that makes today’s small quantum chips actually useful?
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IonQ Cracks Real-Time Quantum Error Decoding — On a Laptop Chip
Racks of custom FPGAs used to be the price of admission for real-time quantum error correction. IonQ just did the same job on the chip inside an ordinary laptop.
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NIST’s Bigger Superconducting Nanowire Detectors Unblock Quantum Scaling
Engineers spent years keeping single-photon detectors razor-thin to protect their sensitivity. NIST just found a way to make them 100 times wider without losing a thing.
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Photonic’s New Code Slashes the Qubits Needed for Quantum Error Correction
Fault-tolerant quantum computers have always needed thousands of extra qubits just for error correction. A newly peer-reviewed code family from Photonic just shrank that bill dramatically.