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60 quantum research items collected on 2026-07-26; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.

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60 quantum research items collected on 2026-07-26; hardware, control, and industry signals routed.

Hardware and Error Correction

  • Fault-tolerant quantum algorithms for simulating atomic nuclei

    To maximize the value of fault-tolerant quantum computers, it is essential to develop concrete applications beyond well-established domains such as chemistry and condensed-matter physics. Here we construct and compile quantum algorithms to simulate the structure of atomic nuclei -- a topic that has received relatively little attention from the quantum computing community des...

  • Enhancing Entanglement Purification with Shared Randomness

    Entanglement purification protocols (EPPs) are essential for improving entanglement fidelity to support fault-tolerant distributed quantum information processing. Practical entanglement sources are often heterogeneous and source labels may be unavailable at the EPP layer. We show that classical shared randomness, together with buffer memories, can enhance entanglement purifi...

  • Strategic Plan for Neutral Atom Quantum Computation

    We present a strategic plan for neutral atom quantum computation, bringing together hardware development and theory advancements to achieve the goal of practical quantum advantage. The concept of practical quantum advantage is defined, along with how to verify claims of advantage, and approaches to designing quantum algorithms that deliver practical advantage. Future directi...

  • Directional telecom photons from a chirally coupled quantum dot

    Chiral quantum light-matter interfaces, where the internal spin state of a quantum emitter determines the direction in which it emits, are essential building blocks of non-reciprocal quantum devices, deterministic quantum logical gates and entanglement generation protocols. Yet, a chiral quantum interface that operates at telecom wavelengths, and is compatible with telecommu...

  • Floquet Reservoir Engineering for Remote Logical Entanglement

    Implementing controlled dissipative dynamics is a powerful approach for state preparation in a variety of contexts, including the preparation of remote entangled states. Here, we show that by going beyond the standard setting of time-independent dissipative dynamics, one can realize even more powerful non-unitary protocols. We introduce dissipative Floquet protocols for stab...

  • Quasiparticle-induced transitions in a fluxonium qubit

    Quasiparticles are a prominent decoherence source in superconducting qubits, but their effects are notoriously difficult to isolate in fluxonium. Unlike a transmon, fluxonium is insensitive to offset charge, precluding charge-parity detection of quasiparticle tunneling. We address this challenge by measuring the excitation and de-excitation rates in a fluxonium qubit under c...

  • Classifying Topology via Edge-State Pure Thermalization

    Repeated-interaction machines distinguish heat-like from work-like resources through the steady states they generate, but whether topology can control this distinction remains unknown. Here we reveal the role of topology in the process by showing that topological edge states can act as pure-thermalization fuels. For an open Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain used as the fuel source...

  • Fluctuation-Induced Bistability in the Dissipative Dynamics of Generic Cavity-Matter Quantum Systems

    We demonstrate that fluctuation-induced bistability is a robust and generic phenomenon in strongly interacting many-body systems with strong light-matter coupling. We identify a common microscopic mechanism based on resonances between photonic transitions and many-body energy scales, unifying the emergence of fluctuation-induced bistability across a broad class of models, in...

Control and Quantum-AI Integration

  • Flow-based Phase-space Tomography of Continuous-variable Quantum States

    Continuous-variable quantum state tomography is limited by the cost of resolving non-Gaussian structure in high-dimensional phase space. We introduce QST-Flow, a quantum state tomography framework via flow-based generative modeling that represents experimentally accessible phase-space quasiprobability distributions with normalized, samplable neural densities rather than a tr...

  • The trainability of photonic quantum circuits

    Variational quantum algorithms are a leading approach to near-term quantum computing, but their scalability can be limited by barren plateaus and the sampling cost of resolving small changes in the loss landscape. Here, we study the trainability of passive linear-optical quantum circuits and introduce a framework based on the ratio of sample variance to circuit variance. Thi...

  • QuantumChain: Blockchain-Backed Quantum Federated Learning for Financial Fraud Detection

    Financial fraud detection is challenged by decentralized data, severe class imbalance, and privacy constraints. This paper presents QuantumChain, a secure Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) framework that combines hybrid quantum-classical neural networks, encrypted federated aggregation, blockchain-based auditability, and quantum-secure communication. Each client trains a loca...

  • QSTAR: Quantum Selective Transfer with Adaptive Routing

    Quantum transfer learning (QTL) is often evaluated by replacing a classical classifier with a fixed variational quantum head, but this hides a key question: when is the quantum branch actually useful? We propose QSTAR: Quantum Selective Transfer with Adaptive Routing, a selective QTL framework that keeps high-confidence classical predictions and routes only low-confidence sa...

  • Cautious optimism for deep parameterized quantum circuits

    A central challenge in quantum machine learning is understanding the scaling behavior of parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs). In particular, it remains unclear how their performance on unseen data changes as the number of trainable parameters increases. Prior works have derived formal generalization guarantees for quantum models, but it is well-known that many such results...

  • Quantum Circuit Fragments and Link Products in Continuous Variables

    Quantum circuits are often drawn as complete processes, with fixed inputs and outputs. In many quantum-information tasks, however, the natural object is only a fragment of such a circuit: an unknown source of non-Markovian noise to be probed, a subroutine to be inserted into a larger algorithm, or an agent implementing an adaptive strategy. In finite dimensions, the link pro...

  • Do emulated quantum circuits change what CNNs look at? Performance and explainability comparison in medical image classification

    Numerous studies have analyzed the use of hybrid quantum-classical convolutional neural networks as a promising alternative to classical deep learning. However, network components on quantum hardware impose fundamental limitations, while the scalability of quantum circuits leads to trainability issues. In this work, we investigate whether small, classically-emulated quantum...

  • Approximate Quantum State Preparation Through Proximal Policy Optimization

    In this work, a quantum architecture search framework for approximate quantum state preparation (QSP) is proposed. QSP is a challenging task, since the search space grows exponentially with the number of qubits, making the identification of the optimal circuit non-trivial. To address this problem, deep reinforcement learning is employed through an agent based on proximal pol...

Commercial and Industry Context

Unrouted Items

  • Complexity transition in the Dicke model of light-matter interaction

    Tuning the coupling strength $g$ of an interacting quantum system may drive a sudden change in its ground-state or thermal properties. To identify and grasp non-analytical, or even discontinuous, transitions in far-from-equilibrium dynamics proves more challenging. Recently Krylov complexity $C_K$ has offered fresh insights about operator growth, thermalization, and chaos in...

  • A geometric framework for spin relaxation

    Spin relaxation is conventionally described by two independent phenomenological rates - longitudinal ($R_1$) and transverse ($R_2$) - whose separation obscures a deeper structural unity. Here we develop a geometric framework in which dissipation is represented by a single covariant relaxation tensor acting in Liouville space, from which $R_1$ and $R_2$ emerge as complementar...

  • Unconditional Unclonable Encryption

    We give an unconditional construction of information-theoretically secure one-time private-key unclonable encryption scheme for one-bit messages, with efficient encryption and decryption and exponentially small unclonable-indistinguishability advantage.

  • Beyond Calabrese-Cardy Scaling: Exceptional-Point Sensitivity from the de Sitter RT Surface

    Entanglement entropy at one-dimensional criticality typically follows the Calabrese-Cardy scaling. In non-Hermitian critical chains near exceptional points, however, we show that the biorthogonal entropy of a finite system retains an additional sensitivity to a small energy gap \(Δ\) even when \(Δ< 1/L\). On top of the usual Calabrese-Cardy term, we find an interval-independ...

  • Benchmarking Agents for Proving Theorems in Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Information

    Formal verification is becoming increasingly practical for quantum computing, yet the ability of AI agents to construct machine-checkable proofs in this domain remains unmeasured. We introduce Lean-QuantumAlg-Bench and Lean-QIT-Bench, two Lean 4 benchmarks containing 36 and 40 theorem-completion tasks for quantum algorithms and quantum information theory, respectively. Every...

  • Unified theory of classical and quantum semiparametric efficiency

    In classical and quantum statistics, high-dimensional unknown parameters are abundant and it is often prudent to make minimal assumptions about them using so-called semiparametric models. To attack a wide range of semiparametric problems in one broad stroke, we present a unified treatment of statistical efficiency for classical and quantum semiparametric models, generalizing...

  • Extended Single-Atom Tweezer Arrays in High-Cooperativity Cavity-QED

    A central challenge for cavity-QED-based quantum technologies is to make high-cooperativity optical interfaces compatible with site-resolved arrays of single atoms. Here, we demonstrate optical tweezer arrays of individual $^{87}$Rb atoms inside a fiber Fabry-Perot microcavity with single-atom cooperativity $\mathcal{C} \sim 90$. We combine background-free site-resolved fluo...

  • Flow of local sensitivity in a spin chain coupled to a bosonic bath

    We study how local sensitivity to an encoded parameter, captured by the quantum Fisher information, flows between a spin chain, a coupled bosonic bath, and their quantum correlations, where we treat the bath as a full many-body quantum system beyond the Lindbladian approximation. We analyze how the coupling symmetry determines the destination of the departed sensitivity dire...

  • An on-chip programmable mechano-quantum transducer

    Solid-state spin defects encode local perturbations as measurable shifts in spin-transition frequencies, but mechanical actuation and quantum readout remain physically separated, resulting in a discrete measurement setup. Integrating these functions requires an on-site mechano-quantum interface that programs the lattice state of a defect host and quantitatively maps it onto...

  • An Optimal Analysis of the Product Test

    Product testing, i.e., deciding whether a pure multipartite quantum state is fully unentangled across a specified tensor decomposition, serves as a bridge between quantum property testing, unentangled quantum proof systems, and tensor optimization. Despite being a fundamental property testing task and having many applications, the product test's exact (worst-case) acceptance...

  • Relational path integral, effective actions and quantum frame covariance

    We propose a relational bundle-geometric formulation of the gravitational path integral by invoking the new tool of quantum reference frames (QRFs), which in gravity are gauge-covariant coordinate systems constructed from the available field content. Formulated in terms of relational (frame-dressed) observables, this yields a manifestly gauge-invariant path integral without...

  • Rack-integrated quantum dot-based source of single and entangled photons at telecom C-band

    For quantum light sources in everyday telecommunication networks, quantum science needs to be fully transformed into quantum technology. The first necessary step to move outside a well-controlled lab environment requires the use of quantum light sources operating in the technologically relevant telecom O- and C-band. This can be provided using epitaxial quantum dots as deter...

  • Exponentially enhanced two-mode multiboson entanglement via phase-modulated tunneling

    The entanglement of quantum systems is commonly restricted by their coupling Hamiltonian and initial state properties. Here, we prove by exact analysis of tunnel-coupled bosonic field modes, that factorized multi-boson two-mode states can become fully entangled via stroboscopic sign flips of the two-mode coupling. Their entanglement can exponentially grow with the number of...

  • Towards more accurate natural orbital functional approximations: including 4-index cumulant contributions

    Accurate modeling of bond breaking remains a central challenge for reduced density matrix functional theory (RDMFT). Although some modern functionals can yield reasonably accurate dissociation energies, they often fail to reproduce key properties of the dissociated fragments, such as a vanishing fragment population covariance (also known as the delocalization index) and the...

  • A solution to 2-copy distillability of Werner states

    Entanglement distillation is a fundamental task in quantum information theory. In this work, we prove that Werner states in arbitrary dimension are 2-copy distillable if and only if they are 1-copy distillable. This answers the longstanding open question of the 2-copy distillability of Werner states. This is an important step on determining whether every non-positive partial...

  • Representation of the causal logic for the Dirac system and the electron

    We construct a covariant representation of the causal logic for the Dirac system and the electron, based on the conserved Dirac probability current and a general current-to-localization procedure for achronal regions. A polynomial decay estimate, derived by a non-stationary phase argument, verifies the conditions required to define covariant achronal localization for the ful...

  • Space-division multiplexed quantum key distribution exploiting multi-plane light conversion for few-mode fibers

    As quantum key distribution (QKD) progresses from laboratory demonstrations toward practical deployment, quantum communi- cation networks increasingly require higher key rates and the ability to distribute independent secret keys among multiple users and network nodes. In this paper we present a promsing approach with multi-plane light conversion (MPLC) for demultiplexing en...

  • Why Some Quantum States Cannot Be Recovered

    The recovery of quantum information after subsystem loss is a central challenge in quantum information processing. However, some states remain beyond the reach of any recovery strategies. Here we identify the algebraic origin of irrecoverability, the ghost information---correlations encoded in the global state that leave no trace on any accessible subsystem. We introduce a s...

  • Entanglement asymmetry and quantum Mpemba effect for Kramers-Wannier duality

    The Kramers-Wannier duality is the prototypical example of a non-invertible symmetry, yet little is known about its fate away from criticality and out of equilibrium. We introduce the Kramers-Wannier entanglement asymmetry, a quantum-information measure that quantifies the breaking of this non-invertible symmetry in the transverse-field Ising chain. We first investigate its...

  • Characterising extremal decoherence by quantum measurement incompatibility

    Decoherence, when viewed in the Heisenberg picture, can turn incompatible measurements into jointly measurable ones. This provides an observable-level description of emergent classicality in terms of the incompatibility destroyed by a noise channel. The corresponding loss of incompatibility can be captured by the channel's \emph{compatibility region}---the observables in a p...

  • Exceptional-Point Geometry of Weak Topological Boundary States

    In this article, we demonstrate that weak topology can be formulated geometrically in terms of exceptional singularities of an analytically continued Bloch Hamiltonian. A general plaquette chiral model in two dimensions serves as a minimal realization of dual weak topology, possessing two independent families of weak topological invariants, one for each spatial direction. Th...

  • Entanglement, Evolutionary Stability, and Strategy-Space Dependence in an EWL Quantum Game

    We examine how Eisert--Wilkens--Lewenstein (EWL) quantization affects evolutionary stability in a symmetric $2\times2$ game whose interior mixed Nash equilibrium is not evolutionarily stable. In the restricted two-parameter EWL strategy space, the quantum equilibrium $s^*=(π/2,π/4)$ becomes a strict symmetric Nash equilibrium, and hence an evolutionarily stable strategy, for...

  • Conditional probabilities in quantum-optical settings

    We examine conditional probabilities derived from the joint noisy measurement of two complementary observables. We show that conditioning on one variable can lead to reduction of uncertainty in the other one, even completely eliminating uncertainty. We show that the conditional distribution cannot, in general, be represented in Born form using the marginal positive operator...

  • Picosecond-resolved entanglement distribution over an urban free-space channel

    Time-evolving entangled states describe quantum particles whose correlations evolve in time according to a well-defined dynamics. Such states can be generated in a variety of physical systems and are promising resources for several quantum technologies, ranging from quantum clock synchronization to quantum communication. However, their full potential is currently limited by...

  • Guest Post: Inside Africa’s Coordinated Race to Secure a Post-Quantum Future

    <a href="https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/07/25/inside-africas-coordinated-race-to-secure-a-post-quantum-future/" rel="nofollow" title="Guest Post: Inside Africa&#8217;s Coordinated Race to Secure a Post-Quantum Future"><img alt="AQC logo - TQI" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" height="676" src="https://thequantuminsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/zsd.png"...

  • SKKU-led Team Identifies ‘Zinc Oxide Spin Qubit’ — A Semiconductor-Based Quantum Technology

    <a href="https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/07/24/skku-led-team-identifies-zinc-oxide-spin-qubit-a-semiconductor-based-quantum-technology/" rel="nofollow" title="SKKU-led Team Identifies ‘Zinc Oxide Spin Qubit’ — A Semiconductor-Based Quantum Technology"><img alt="PRX Quantum" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" height="531" src="https://thequantuminsider.com/wp-con...

  • Digital Catapult and NQCC Select 11 Organisations for Quantum Technology Access Programme

    <a href="https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/07/24/digital-catapult-nqcc-quantum-technology-access-programme/" rel="nofollow" title="Digital Catapult and NQCC Select 11 Organisations for Quantum Technology Access Programme"><img alt="Digital Catapult and NQCC" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" height="708" src="https://thequantuminsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/...

  • Quantum Circuits Inc.’s Acquisition Boosts Connecticut Innovations’ Record-Breaking Fiscal Year

    <a href="https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/07/24/quantum-circuits-inc-s-acquisition-boosts-connecticut-innovations-record-breaking-fiscal-year/" rel="nofollow" title="Quantum Circuits Inc.&#8217;s Acquisition Boosts Connecticut Innovations&#8217; Record-Breaking Fiscal Year"><img alt="connecticut" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" height="887" src="https://thequa...

Chips

43 chip stack items collected on 2026-07-26; memory, packaging, compute, and foundry signals routed.

Compute Accelerators

Memory and Advanced Packaging

  • Untangling Chip Traffic Jams

    <p>Scaling NoCs across chiplets requires earlier validation of coherency, congestion, thermal effects, and fault behavior.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/untangling-chip-traffic-jams/">Untangling Chip Traffic Jams</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>

  • Realizing The Future Of 3D-IC: Final Scenario And Sign-off

    <p>Chiplet interface route planning, optimization, and predictive analysis are crucial for achieving PPAC goals.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://semiengineering.com/realizing-the-future-of-3d-ic-final-scenario-and-sign-off/">Realizing The Future Of 3D-IC: Final Scenario And Sign-off</a> appeared first on <a href="https://semiengineering.com">Semiconductor Engineering</a>.</p>

Foundry, Tools, and Capex

Unrouted Items

Power

24 power layer items collected on 2026-07-26; data center load, grid, generation, and cooling signals routed.

Data Center Power Demand

Grid and Generation

Unrouted Items

  • Energia Costa Azul, Mexico's second LNG terminal, shipped first cargo

    Energia Costa Azul, the second liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Mexico, shipped its initial cargo from Phase 1 of the terminal on July 8, according to the project developer. The completion of the project adds 0.4 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of nominal export capacity from a single train, tripling Mexico's LNG export capacity. The facility is the first te...

  • Global liquefied natural gas trade volumes reached record high in 2025

    Global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade volumes increased 5.4% to a record 56.3 billion cubic feet per day last year (Bcf/d), driven largely by U.S. LNG export capacity expanding to meet growing demand, according to a recent report from the International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers (GIIGNL). Global LNG trade has slowed this year following the closure of the key...

  • U.S. refining capacity decreased during 2025

    U.S. operable atmospheric distillation capacity, the primary measure of refinery capacity, totaled 18.2 million barrels per calendar day (b/cd) on January 1, 2026-down over 250,000 b/cd (about 1%) compared with January 1, 2025-according to our latest annual Refinery Capacity Report.

  • U.S. commercial crude oil inventories have decreased in June

    For the week ending June 19, 2026, U.S. refineries processed 17.1 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil, down 81,000 b/d from the previous week, and they operated at 96.1% capacity utilization. Gasoline production averaged 9.5 million b/d, and distillate production increased to 5.2 million b/d.

  • UAE's exit from OPEC+ reduced the group's share of crude oil production and capacity

    On April 28, 2026, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced that it was leaving OPEC, effective on May 1. OPEC was formed in 1960 by Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela, with the stated objective to "coordinate and unify petroleum policies among Member Countries." OPEC is best known for its effect on global crude oil prices.

  • U.S. natural gas storage capacity increased slightly in 2025

    Underground working natural gas storage capacity in the Lower 48 states increased slightly in 2025, according to our latest data, with growth concentrated in the South Central and Mountain regions. Underground natural gas storage provides a source of energy when demand increases, balancing U.S. energy needs. We calculate natural gas storage capacity in two ways: demonstrated...

  • GE Vernova powers Africa’s industrialisation with integrated energy solutions

    CAPE TOWN, South Africa (June 17, 2026) – In line with the Africa Energy Forum’s theme, ‘Building Africa’s industrialized Future,’ GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) today showcased its comprehensive portfolio of technologies engineered to translate large-scale infrastructure ambitions into operational

  • GE Vernova to deliver pumped-storage technology for India’s 1.35 GW Upper Sileru hydropower plant

    VADODARA, INDIA&nbsp;(May 4, 2026) –&nbsp;GE Vernova Inc.&nbsp;(NYSE: GEV) announced today that it has secured an order from Megha Engineering &amp; Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) to deliver nine 150 MW pumped-storage units for the 1.35 GW Upper Sileru hydropower plant, located in the state of

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