September 19, 2026

DOE Launches $215 Million Quantum Genesis Q CompetitionTier 2

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the Quantum Genesis Q Competition, an initiative with up to $215 million in planned funding to demonstrate the world’s first fault-tolerant scientifically relevant quantum computers (SRQCs). Applicants are invited to submit proposals to deploy quantum computers with at least 100 logical q...

Guest Post — The Quantum Inflection Point: Charting a Science-First Roadmap for the NationTier 2

By Dr. Darío Gil, the Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. His office is the nation’s largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences, supporting all 17 National Laboratories of the United States, and responsible for programs including advanced computing, fusion, nuclear and high energy particle physics, basic energy […]

Marton's conjecture in polynomial timeTier 3

Gowers, Green, Manners, and Tao (Annals '25) recently resolved Marton's polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture. We give an algorithmic counterpart to their result: given uniform sampling and membership-oracle access to a set A ⊆F_2^n with doubling constant at most K, our algorithm outputs a subspace of size at most |A| whose K^(O(1)) translates cover $...

Private communication from Pauli channels with no privacyTier 3

A channel capacity quantifies the communication capability of a noisy physical process. In contrast to communication channels in the classical world, quantum theory makes this capability contextual. We show that two Pauli two-qubit channels, each with zero private classical capacity, can be used to transmit private information when used together. One is a two-qubit Pauli cha...

Coherent error threshold for quantum LDPC codesTier 3

A key appeal of quantum low-density parity check (qLDPC) codes is their ability to suppress stochastic Pauli noise below nonzero thresholds. Coherent errors are fundamentally different: they produce superpositions of error patterns whose amplitudes can interfere even after syndrome measurement. Rigorous understanding of coherent errors remains limited. Here we show that gene...

State-Space-Based FIR Filtering on a Quantum ComputerTier 3

Many signal processing tasks require intensive computations. Quantum computing promises to accelerate certain tasks, but algorithms must be designed around the limitations of quantum mechanics. This paper provides a quantum implementation of finite impulse response (FIR) filters, which are a widely used tool in classical signal processing. The filter can be parallelized and...

A quantum representation of π fragmentation functions through variational quantum circuitsTier 3

We present a variational quantum-circuit model for fragmentation functions (FFs). Isospin and charge-conjugation symmetries are imposed to construct an independent six-flavor basis describing charged and neutral pion production, while physics-inspired Ansätze, including logarithmic feature maps and mass thresholds, encode the relevant kinematics. This quantum architecture su...

EPB Launches IonQ Forte Enterprise Quantum Computer in ChattanoogaTier 2

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — EPB today launched the IonQ Forte Enterprise quantum computer at EPB Quantum CenterSM, bringing commercial quantum computing and networking together in one facility for the first time. The milestone further positions Chattanooga as the most comprehensive resource in the U.S. for commercializing real-world quantum solutions. Companies can d...

Previously: 2026-09-09

This Roblox Game’s Levels Are Generated by a Real Quantum ComputerTier 2

Insider Brief Video games and quantum computing don’t usually share a sentence, let alone a screen. But in the latest episode of The Quantum Kid, 10-year-old Kai discovered a game where quantum computer game levels aren’t just a concept — they’re real, generated live by actual quantum hardware. The result surprised even him. The episode […]

Global Quantum + AI Challenge Advances After Phase 1 Draws More Than 1,000 Entrants From Around The WorldTier 2

Insider Brief The Global Quantum + AI Challenge is moving into its second phase after attracting more than 1,000 entrants from around the world to address practical problems submitted by five major enterprises. Following the close of Phase 1 submissions on Sept. 15, the challenge jury and enterprise partners will review proposals and select finalists […]

Quantum Simulation Explained: Applications, Methods and ChallengesTier 2

Insider Brief A molecule with fifty interacting particles needs more numbers to describe its full quantum state than a classical supercomputer can store. That’s the wall classical chemistry keeps hitting, and it’s why physicist Richard Feynman proposed the idea that if you want to simulate a quantum system accurately, build a computer that runs on […]

EigenQ Secures $45 Million Financing Ahead of Planned Nasdaq ListingTier 2

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — EigenQ, Inc. (“EigenQ”), an applied quantum technology company building the trusted infrastructure for the Quantum Era, and Silicon Valley Acquisition Corp. (“SVAQ”) (Nasdaq: SVAQ), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, today announced that EigenQ has entered into a securities purchase ag...

MIT’s Robotic Optics Lab Could Speed Testing for Quantum TechnologyTier 2

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Every new generation of phone display, television screen, and solar panel is a result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of candidate materials. These experiments can take months to run, requiring scientists to meticulously angle and adjust delicate light sources, ...

Researchers Observe First Real-Time Quantum Jump in SoundTier 2

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — A Stanford team has documented the first direct observation of quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator, completing an arc of scientific exploration that started over a hundred years ago. Quantum jumps—sudden transitions from one energy state to another—have been theorized since the early 1900s. Scientists first demonstrated these...

ICTK and Jiran Security Partner on Post-Quantum Cryptography MigrationTier 2

Insider Brief South Korean quantum security company ICTK (KOSDAQ: 456010) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with information security firm Jiran Security to jointly work on post-quantum cryptography migration and cryptographic asset discovery, Business Korea reported. Jiran Security offers email, document, and mobile security solutions along with malware threat...