Yakir Aharonov’s career, spanning from the nineteen fifties through 2000s, is detailed in this oral history interview; it illuminates his contributions to quantum foundations including explorations of the EPR paradox and time-energy uncertainty relations.

Disclosed defence money for quantum computing roughly doubled to tripled in 2026 against the 2023 to 2025 average, and all of the rise is announced money from two DARPA agreements. Obligated money on the federal register fell.

How Big Is the Quantum Defence Sector? The defence money for quantum technology that anyone can check runs to hundreds of millions of dollars a year, not billions. The Pentagon spent about $320 million on quantum research in FY2023, its latest year of actual spending.

Phasecraft and Virginia Tech Researchers Cut Quantum Compilation Costs by 73% with AI Automated systems now consistently find better solutions for complex quantum algorithm design than existing methods.

Approximate Quantum Dynamics Predicts State Evolution with 90% Accuracy The research focuses on pure states that are either invariant or noninvariant under permutations.

A thorough evaluation framework reveals key limitations impacting variational quantum eigensolvers applied to finite-element structural dynamics; simply increasing qubit counts does not guarantee improved performance.

Researchers Detail New Source of Non-Gaussian Quantum Noise The research focuses on absorption processes.

Loss Concentration Maximizes Response Strength in Third-Order Systems Concentrating dissipation into a single direction maximizes the performance of non-Hermitian systems at exceptional points , special conditions where standard physics breaks down.

Researchers Accelerate Quantum Circuits by up to 606x Representing quantum circuits as hypergraphs , which collapse commuting operations into single units and preserve qubit connections, sharply accelerates optimisation processes.

Researchers Achieve Robust 12ns Controlled-Z Qubit Gates Maintaining high accuracy alongside speed previously proved challenging as processors scaled up; exhaustive calibration became impractical.

T. J. Watson Team Builds Meter-Scale Links Achieving 99% State Transfer Building modular quantum computers has been hindered by challenges in creating long-distance connections between processors.

Researchers Measure 58x Drop in Resistance of Cryo Inductors A key leap forward has been made in powering quantum computing; commercially available power inductors now deliver 25x to 58x when cooled to four Kelvin, the temperature near absolute zero.

High optical reflectivity and ultracoherent mechanical motion now coexist in a mirror thanks to newly created nanopillar metasurfaces that achieve 99.82% reflectivity alongside a Q⋅f product of two times ten to the power fourteen Hertz.

Quantum Layers Improve Vision AI Accuracy to 80.7% on Spatial Reasoning Tasks

Quantum graph networks find larger cliques with less training Quantinuum researchers are tackling the challenge of barren plateaus, a major obstacle in quantum machine learning where optimization fails, by constructing larger quantum models from smaller subcomponents.

IDEMIA Secure Transactions is collaborating with KT to implement both NIST -standardized and Korean post-quantum cryptographic algorithms on Quantum-Resistant SIM cards, a key component of South Korea’s 2026 Post-Quantum Cryptography Pilot Conversion Project.

Researchers Find Optimization Boosts Don’t Guarantee Better Sampling Quantum annealers have been assessed primarily by their ability to find low-energy configurations; however, reaching a degenerate ground state and uniformly sampling it are distinct capabilities.

Quantum parameter estimation commonly assumes measured quantities exist as fixed values before and independent of measurement; it challenges that assumption, opening new avenues for describing estimations where the quantity may instead be a fluctuating quantum variable.

Researchers Bound Key Rates Independent of System Size Reliable predictions about complex quantum systems require knowing how quickly they reach stable states, a measure known as entropy decay.

Researchers Link Quantum Errors to Predictable Distributions Noise is unavoidable in realistic quantum systems, and resulting states are generally mixed.