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70 quantum research items collected on 2026-05-27; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.

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70 quantum research items collected on 2026-05-27; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.

Hardware and Error Correction

Control and Quantum-AI Integration

  • Deterministic Mapping of Topological Phases via Autoregressive Exogenous Neural Networks

    We report a comparative analysis of three dynamic neural network (NN) architectures -- NAR, NARX, and NIO -- to evaluate their efficiency in estimating the critical-measurement-strength parameter ($c_{crit}$) characterizing topological phase transitions in geometric phases induced by weak measurements. Our results demonstrate that the NARX architecture achieves superior pred...

  • Statistical and Algorithmic Foundations of Probing Quantum Systems with Compressive Measurements: A Review

    Quantum state tomography (QST) is a fundamental task in quantum information science that aims to reconstruct unknown quantum states from measurement data. However, the exponential growth of Hilbert-space dimension with system size makes full tomography of general quantum states statistically and computationally prohibitive. This challenge has motivated extensive research on...

  • Quantum criticality and factorization in a constrained Rydberg spin chain

    We investigate the zero-temperature phase diagram of a one-dimensional constrained quantum spin chain realized in coherently driven Rydberg-atom arrays with competing local Rabi driving and dipole-dipole exchange interactions. Projecting onto the blockade-constrained Hilbert space yields an effective model in which local and nonlocal quantum fluctuations compete on equal foo...

  • Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Robust Open Quantum System Control: A Multi-Task Framework with Temporal Optimization

    We present a Multi-task Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) Reinforcement Learning framework designed for open-system quantum control across diverse Hamiltonians, which learns optimal pulse sequences while simultaneously discovering problem-specific evolution time T and number of control pulse segments N. Experimental results across 51 Hamiltonian variations demonstrate that the multi-t...

  • Nonclassical energy-change distribution as a witness of non-Markovian quantum dynamics

    We address the problem of identifying non-Markovian quantum time evolutions of an open quantum system by only performing measurements of the system's energy. We demonstrate that violations of CP-divisibility are always witnessed by non-positive values of the energy-change Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability distribution associated with the system's Hamiltonian, evaluated at cons...

  • Adaptive Shot Allocation for Recursive QAOA via Reinforcement Learning

    Recursive QAOA (RQAOA) solves combinatorial optimization problems by using shallow quantum circuits to estimate pairwise correlations and recursively eliminate variables until a classical solver can handle the residual instance. Each elimination step requires measurement shots, and the total shot cost grows with the number of recursive stages. On near-term quantum devices, i...

  • GlobalPlatform Launches Pavona: An Open Silicon Distribution with Production-Grade Post-Quantum Cryptography

    <a href="https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/05/26/globalplatform-launches-pavona-the-first-open-silicon-distribution-with-production-grade-post-quantum-cryptography/" rel="nofollow" title="GlobalPlatform Launches Pavona: An Open Silicon Distribution with Production-Grade Post-Quantum Cryptography"><img alt="Pavona logo - TQI" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" heig...

Commercial and Industry Context

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  • Generalized multilevel amplitude damping channels and their thermodynamic performances

    We introduce a new class of quantum channels, the Generalized Multilevel Amplitude Damping (GMAD) channels, to model noise and decoherence effects in a qudit coupled to a thermal environment. The degradation of energetic resources under GMADs is investigated by evaluating work functionals and ergotropic capacitances, with particular attention to the coherent and incoherent c...

  • Postselection-free ballistic-diffusive transition in monitored spin chains

    We study spin and entanglement dynamics in spin-1/2 XXZ chains under periodic monitoring and show that this system exhibits two measurement-induced phase transitions: a steady-state entanglement phase transition similar to those in monitored quantum circuits and a ballistic-to-diffusive transition in transient dynamics. Specifically, we discover that at low monitoring rate,...

  • Autonomous oscillations in quantum electromechanics: tensor network treatment

    Transport-induced self-sustained oscillations in electromechanical systems convert a static electrochemical bias into robust, autonomous oscillatory motion in the absence of any external periodic drive. However, an exact description of such self-oscillations remains challenging in nanoscale electromechanical devices featuring a simultaneously large bosonic Hilbert space, str...

  • Basis-Adaptive Sparse-State Simulation of Quantum Circuits

    Classical simulation of many-body quantum systems remains economical only when wavefunction amplitudes stay localized in the working basis. Fixed-basis sparse-state simulators scale memory as $\mathcal{O}(k)$ by keeping the largest computational-basis amplitudes; however, fidelity drops once entanglement or basis rotations spread weight across the Hilbert space. In this work...

  • Optimal quantum locally differentially private mechanisms in the high-privacy regime

    We optimize the trade-off between privacy and utility in the high-privacy regime. We adopt local differential privacy (LDP) and its quantum extension, quantum local differential privacy (QLDP), for privacy protection, and investigate utility functions including the Holevo information (which reduces to the mutual information in the classical case) and the error exponents in s...

  • Nonasymptotic bounds for quantum purity amplification

    In quantum purity amplification, one is given $n$ copies of a noisy quantum state $ρ\in \mathbb{C}^{d \times d}$ and asked to prepare $k$ copies of its principal eigenstate $|v_d\rangle$. Several prior works have derived information-theoretically optimal algorithms for this problem, but the bounds they prove are only shown in the asymptotic regime as the number of samples $n...

  • Bose-Einstein thermal operators for semidefinite optimization

    We establish that semidefinite programs (SDPs) over the unbounded positive semidefinite cone are mathematically equivalent to thermodynamic systems of independent bosonic modes: the eigenvalues of the optimization variable play the role of expected occupation numbers, the linear objective plays the role of total expected energy, and the linear equality constraints play the r...

  • Time Crystals on Quantum Devices

    Time crystals are nonequilibrium phases of matter characterized by the emergence of temporal ordering, in which an interacting many-body system develops robust structure in its time evolution that is not trivially dictated by the external driving or environment. While related phenomena have long been studied in classical nonlinear systems, their realization in entangled quan...

  • Quantum fluctuations and chaos in fully connected spin models

    We investigate beyond-mean-field dynamics in a fully connected $\mathrm{SU}(3)$ spin-exchange model, focusing on the interplay between chaotic dynamics and quantum fluctuations. Using the two-particle irreducible (2PI) effective action formalism, we derive equations of motion that systematically account for higher-order correlations generated by interactions, and demonstrate...

  • Semiclassical foundation of universality in chaotic quantum circuits

    The fundamental correspondence between quantum chaotic single-particle systems and random matrix theory is well-understood via periodic orbit theory. In contrast, we show that many-body systems with explicit subsystem structure possess characteristics different from the single-particle theory. We present a periodic orbit theory for many-body systems with well defined semicla...

  • On Clifford hierarchy testing and near-extremizers of noncommutative uniformity norms

    We consider the problem of testing whether an unknown unitary is close to a specified level of the Clifford hierarchy. Bu, Gu, and Jaffe proposed a candidate tester for this task based on a connection with noncommutative analogues of the Gowers uniformity norms. The complexity of this tester -- whose analysis depends on a robust characterization of the near-extremizers of th...

  • Genuine Hybrid Number-Polarization Entanglement

    Entanglement is a key resource for fundamental tests of physics and emerging quantum technologies. In quantum optics, two perspectives on entanglement coexist. In the continuous-variable framework, entanglement is understood as holding between optical modes. In contrast, discrete-variable quantum optics focuses on quantum correlations in degrees of freedom such as polarizati...

  • Pairwise Liouvillian learning from randomized measurements: practical aspects and guidelines for operating the protocol in large-scale experiments

    We review and numerically study a protocol for Liouvillian learning based on randomized Pauli states and measurements. In particular, in the two-body, long-range interactions, and single-body noise setting, we describe the complete workflow to obtain the coefficients of the Liouvillian in an efficient and pairwise manner, meaning that the required classical memory is indepen...

  • Long-range deformations in Gaussian States

    Imaginary-time evolution by a local Hamiltonian cannot induce a phase transition in one dimension, but longer-range interactions may subvert such constraints. Starting from the ground state of the Kitaev Majorana chain, we modify the wave function by an imaginary-time evolution generated by a quadratic Hamiltonian with power-law couplings that enhance pairing correlations, t...

  • Intermittency and metastable dark states as a resource for continuous sensing

    Quanta emitted by an open quantum system carry information about intrinsic parameters, enabling their estimation via continuous monitoring. In practice, however, only a fraction of the emitted quanta is detected, reducing the achievable sensitivity. Here, we consider few-level systems in which coherent couplings and dissipative processes compete, producing metastable dynamic...

  • Extremal Marginal States of Maximal Rank in $(d, d+m)$

    We study the extreme points of the convex set $\mathcal{C}(ρ_1,ρ_2)$ of bipartite quantum states with fixed marginals $ρ_1$ and $ρ_2$. We construct extreme points in $(d,\,d+m)$ dimension, of rank $d+m$, matching the highest possible value, for all $d\geq 3$, $m > \frac{d^2-2d-2}{2}$ (when $d=2$, $m\geq 1$). This proves the existence of extremal states with relatively large...

  • Entangling power and fidelity diagnostic for bipartite quantum channels

    We study two complementary diagnostics of bipartite quantum channels, namely fidelity preservation across different classes of input states and entanglement generation from product inputs, given by properly defined entangling power for bipartite channels. We show that the fidelity averaged over any fixed Schmidt-coefficients local-unitary orbit for equal local dimensions is...

  • Encrypted Cloning, Absolute Maximal Entanglement and Quantum Secret Sharing

    The no-cloning theorem prohibits the creation of identical copies of quantum information, imposing fundamental constraints on quantum technologies. A recently proposed protocol, encrypted cloning, introduced by Yamaguchi and Kempf, showed that perfect qubit clones can be produced if they are simultaneously encrypted with a single-use key. They also observed a connection betw...

  • A High-Contrast Bragg Atom Interferometer for Testing Continuous Spontaneous Localization

    The continuous spontaneous localization (CSL) model is one of the most promising approaches to address the wave function collapse problem in the measurement process of standard quantum mechanics. In this work, the effect of the CSL model on a Bragg atom interferometer was investigated. A Bragg interferometer achieving high fringe contrast of 99$\%$ has been demonstrated, mai...

  • Radiative electronic bound states in the continuum from defects in semiconductors

    Continuum-buried defect states in semiconductors are generally expected to be optically inactive due to their strong coupling to continuum bands. Here, we show that such defects can instead host radiative electronic bound states in the continuum (BICs), using the silicon G-center as a prototypical example. Hybrid-functional first-principles calculations with a Hubbard $U$ co...

  • Exact Solution for Non-Hermitian Free Fermions: A Case Study of the XY Chain

    We consider the non-Hermitian XY spin chain with open boundary conditions when the anisotropy parameter is extended to complex values. By analyzing the quasi-Hamiltonian matrix, we demonstrate that the free-fermion structure of the quasi-energy spectrum coincides with that of the Hermitian model and construct the corresponding biorthogonal fermionic basis away from exception...

  • Sequential quantum nonlocality sharing under local noisy quantum channels

    Sequential sharing of quantum nonlocality (SSQN) is crucial for device-independent tasks in quantum information processing, wherein relaying the post-measurement qubit through a local quantum channel to a subsequent observer constitutes an essential operational step. Here we present a theoretical analysis of noise robustness of sequential sharing for bipartite Bell nonlocali...

  • Inhomogeneous Light-Matter Coupling as a Resource for Noiseless Quantum Memory

    Inhomogeneous ensembles of two-level systems are important for both fundamental light-matter physics and quantum-network applications. Here we develop a general waveguide model that provides an intuitive and analytical description of collective dynamics in such systems by mapping the subradiant modes to an effective waveguide with well-defined input-output relations. For ech...

  • Thermal Casimir Effect in A Schwarzschild-like Wormhole Spacetime

    We study the finite-temperature Casimir effect for a massless scalar field confined between two parallel plates in a Schwarzschild-like wormhole spacetime. Imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions, we compute the renormalized Casimir free energy in the comoving frame. We find that the thermal correction to the renormalized Casimir free energy decreases gradually with the tempe...

  • Evolution of Hypoequilibrium States in Steepest Entropy Ascent Models for Nonequilibrium Quantum Thermodynamics

    A formal development of the hypoequilibrium (HE) state concept within the Steepest-Entropy-Ascent Quantum Thermodynamics (SEAQT) framework is presented, emphasizing its rigorous mathematical formulation. Using a general decomposition of the Hilbert space, HE states are defined in operator language and the reduced evolution of the associated intensive parameters for the regim...

  • Geometric Protection of Bipartite Entanglement in Hopf-Linked Quantum Rings

    We determine the bipartite entanglement bounds of two interacting electrons in deeply interlocked Hopf-linked quantum rings via exact diagonalization of the unexpanded 3D Coulomb interaction. This identifies an exact continuous spatial symmetry that geometrically isolates the positive-parity Bell state, preventing classical interaction-driven localization. A non-coplanar geo...

  • End-to-End PDE-Based Quantum Algorithms for Multi-Asset Option Pricing under Local and Stochastic Volatility

    Multi-asset option pricing under local- and stochastic-volatility models leads naturally to high-dimensional parabolic PDEs. We develop an end-to-end quantum PDE framework for European option pricing under local-volatility Black--Scholes and Heston models. The framework takes classical contract and model data as input and returns classical estimates of selected option values...

  • Analytical Singular-Value Structure of Analytic-Continuation Kernels from Slepian Information Theory

    Analytic continuation from imaginary-time Green's functions to real-frequency spectra is a central ill-posed inverse problem in quantum many-body physics. We show that the thermal kernel admits an analytical generalized singular-value structure once its purely dynamical part is separated from the statistical weight imposed by the heat bath. The dynamical kernel is the imagin...

  • Probing Spacetime Topology and Superposition with Accelerated Detectors

    We study entanglement harvested by Unruh DeWitt detectors following Rindler trajectories in compactified and superposed Minkowski spacetime. We consider different directions of acceleration (both parallel and antiparallel), separation between detectors and direction of spatial compactification mutually perpendicular to each other. Using the standard entanglement harvesting p...

  • Atomic-referenced Hz-linewidth lasers via fiber interferometric stabilization

    Narrow-linewidth lasers with absolute frequency anchoring are essential for precision metrology, coherent sensing, and emerging quantum technologies beyond laboratory environments. Optical cavities and interferometers provide exceptional short-term spectral purity but lack intrinsic absolute frequency references. Atomic transitions, in contrast, provide stable frequency anch...

  • Scar Full Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis

    The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) provides a fundamental mechanism for emergent statistical mechanics in isolated chaotic quantum systems, asserting that individual energy eigenstates behave as pseudorandom vectors within an energy window. This enables a complete characterization of nontrivial correlations among matrix elements in the energy eigenbasis, as descr...

  • Single-Ensemble Multiparameter Squeezing with Qudits

    Quantum-enhanced multiparameter sensing is often associated with distributed architectures or 2-anticoherent states, whereas squeezing in a single collective ensemble is typically limited to single-parameter metrology. Here, we show that a single ensemble can support simultaneous multiparameter squeezing when each sensor is promoted from a qubit to a qudit (i.e., spin with $...

  • Bohr's complementarity

    Quantum complementarity is a fundamental feature of quantum systems and has captivated the physics research community for nearly a century, with significant advancements emerging in recent decades. This review traces the historical evolution of the concept of complementarity, beginning with Bohr's original formulation. It then explores its modern quantification through compl...

  • Luxquanta and Merqury Cybersecurity Publish White Paper on Malta’s PRISM EuroQCI Multi-Sector Quantum-Safe Network Deployment

    <p>Luxquanta Technologies S.L. and Merqury Cybersecurity have published a joint operational white paper evaluating the production architecture of Physical Security for Public Infrastructure in Malta (PRISM), the country's national quantum communications initiative. Formulated under the broader European Quantum Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI) mandate, the deployment li...

  • Terra Quantum and Axiom Intelligence Corp 1 Sign Definitive Business Combination Agreement at $3.5 Billion Valuation

    <p>Terra Quantum AG and publicly traded special purpose acquisition company Axiom Intelligence Acquisition Corp 1 (NASDAQ: AXINU) have executed a definitive Business Combination Agreement (BCA). The transaction values the combined entity at an implied pro forma enterprise value of approximately $3.6 billion and an equity value of $3.5 billion. Upon completion of the merger,...

  • Terra Quantum and Axiom Intelligence Acquisition Corp 1 Announce Definitive Business Combination Agreement at a $3.5 Billion Equity Valuation

    <a href="https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/05/26/terra-quantum-and-axiom-intelligence-acquisition-corp-1-announce-definitive-business-combination-agreement-at-a-3-5-billion-equity-valuation/" rel="nofollow" title="Terra Quantum and Axiom Intelligence Acquisition Corp 1 Announce Definitive Business Combination Agreement at a $3.5 Billion Equity Valuation"><img alt="Terra Qua...

  • Romania Plans €100 Million Quantum Computer Project in Iași

    <a href="https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/05/26/romania-plans-e100-million-quantum-computer-project-in-iasi/" rel="nofollow" title="Romania Plans €100 Million Quantum Computer Project in Iași"><img alt="romania, flag, europe, countries, red, blue, yellow, symbol, nationality, national, romania flag, free image, background image, wallpaper, country, romania, romania, romani...

Chips

47 chip stack items collected on 2026-05-27; memory, packaging, compute, and foundry signals routed.

Compute Accelerators

Memory and Advanced Packaging

Foundry, Tools, and Capex

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Power

23 power layer items collected on 2026-05-27; data center load, grid, generation, and cooling signals routed.

Data Center Power Demand

  • Data center server energy use grows across the commercial building stock

    In the Annual Energy Outlook 2026 (AEO2026), our long-term outlook, we project electricity consumed by data center servers will increase across the commercial building stock, increasing more in standalone data centers than in all other data center rooms combined. By 2050, server consumption alone reaches between 446 billion kilowatthours (BkWh) and 818 billion BkWh. The high...

  • Commercial electricity sales have soared in Virginia, driven by data centers

    Commercial electricity sales in Virginia increased by nearly 30.0 million megawatthours (MWh) between 2019 and 2025, much faster growth than in any other state except Texas, a much larger state, according to our Annual Electric Power Industry Report. The growth in sales of electricity in Virginia is largely driven by a concentration of data centers, as well as electric vehic...

  • Small modular reactors and microreactors under development in the United States

    Electric utilities in the United States currently operate about 98 gigawatts (GW) of nuclear generating capacity, but very little nuclear capacity has been built in the last few decades. High capital costs and lengthy licensing and approval processes have limited the expansion of nuclear power. However, several companies are developing new small modular reactor (SMR) designs...

  • U.S. coal-fired generating capacity retired in 2025 was the least in 15 years

    During 2025, the U.S. electric power sector retired 2.6 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired generating capacity at four power plants, the least since 2010. At the beginning of 2025, coal plant operators had planned to retire 8.5 GW of capacity; however, 4.8 GW of planned retirements were delayed to a future year, and the operators of two coal plants (1.1 GW) cancelled plans to reti...

  • Rooftop solar photovoltaic systems account for 20% of Puerto Rico's capacity mix

    Rooftop solar generating capacity in Puerto Rico totaled 1,456 megawatts (MW) at the end of 2025, 20% of the overall capacity mix. Rooftop solar capacity has increased faster than other sources over the past decade. Between 2016 and 2025 rooftop solar installations accounted for 81% of the new generating capacity in Puerto Rico, according to data from our Electric Power Mont...

  • ENKA and GE Vernova mark the start of commercial operation of Türkiye’s first HA-powered plant

    Kırklareli, Türkiye -&nbsp;(May 12, 2026) ENKA and GE Vernova Inc (NYSE: GEV) today announced the start of commercial operations at the 852&nbsp;megawatts (MW) Kırklareli power plant in Kırklareli, about 20 miles from the Bulgarian border in Türkiye. The facility is the&nbsp;first HA-powered plant

Grid and Generation

Cooling and Electrical Infrastructure

  • Most planned natural gas pipeline capacity additions in 2026 and 2027 originate in Texas

    Developers plan to bring approximately 44.9 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of new pipeline capacity online in the United States in 2026 and 2027, according to our latest Natural Gas Pipeline Projects Tracker. Approximately 70% (31.6 Bcf/d) of this new capacity is already under construction. More than 66% (29.7 Bcf/d) of the capacity additions originate in Texas. Louisian...

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