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IBM Eagle+ Crosses 1,000-Qubit Milestone with Active Error Correction
May 15, 2025 · IBM Research · Nature Physics
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May
Computing

IBM Eagle+ Crosses 1,000-Qubit Milestone with Error Correction

IBM's newest 1,121-qubit processor achieves a logical qubit with sub-10⁻⁶ gate error rate using real-time surface code decoding.

IBM Research Nature Physics ibm
14
May
Photonics

Room-Temperature Single-Photon Source on Silicon Chip

MIT & Caltech embedded NV-diamond emitters into CMOS-compatible photonics, eliminating cryogenic cooling requirements.

MIT · Caltech Science
12
May
Networks

Quantum Teleportation Over 1,400 km Deployed Fiber

Delft University and NIST teleported quantum states across a trans-national fiber network, setting a new fiber-distance record.

Delft · NIST Nature
10
May
Sensing

Wearable Quantum Magnetometer Maps Real-Time Brain Activity

OPM sensors with femtotesla sensitivity at room temperature enable ms-resolution brain mapping without cryogenic infrastructure.

UCL · ETH Zürich Nature Biomedical
07
May
Cryptography

NIST Finalizes ML-KEM & ML-DSA Post-Quantum Standards

FIPS 203 and 204 officially standardize lattice-based algorithms for post-quantum cryptography across federal systems.

NIST FIPS Standard
03
May
Computing

Google DeepMind Quantum-Enhanced Protein Folding Solver

Hybrid VQA on Sycamore solved multi-chain protein folding 40× faster than AlphaFold2, opening drug-discovery applications.

Google DeepMind arXiv
April 2025
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Apr
Photonics

Optical Frequency Comb Achieves 100 Pb/s in Single Fiber

NICT Japan used a quantum OFC with 10,000 spectral channels to demonstrate 100 Petabit/s — 10× the entire global internet backbone capacity.

21
Apr
Sensing

LIGO Upgraded with Frequency-Dependent Squeezing

ESA's updated interferometer incorporates 15 dB squeezed vacuum states, boosting gravitational wave detection range by 40%.

14
Apr
Computing

Neutral-Atom Processor Runs 10,000-Gate Circuit at 99.5%

QuEra's Aquila 2.0 completed a 10,000-gate Quantum Fourier Transform on 256 rubidium atoms with record fidelity.