Real-time highlights of breakthroughs, publications, and milestones in quantum optics and technology.
IBM's newest 1,121-qubit processor achieves a logical qubit with sub-10⁻⁶ gate error rate using real-time surface code decoding.
MIT & Caltech embedded NV-diamond emitters into CMOS-compatible photonics, eliminating cryogenic cooling requirements.
Delft University and NIST teleported quantum states across a trans-national fiber network, setting a new fiber-distance record.
OPM sensors with femtotesla sensitivity at room temperature enable ms-resolution brain mapping without cryogenic infrastructure.
FIPS 203 and 204 officially standardize lattice-based algorithms for post-quantum cryptography across federal systems.
Hybrid VQA on Sycamore solved multi-chain protein folding 40× faster than AlphaFold2, opening drug-discovery applications.
NICT Japan used a quantum OFC with 10,000 spectral channels to demonstrate 100 Petabit/s — 10× the entire global internet backbone capacity.
ESA's updated interferometer incorporates 15 dB squeezed vacuum states, boosting gravitational wave detection range by 40%.
QuEra's Aquila 2.0 completed a 10,000-gate Quantum Fourier Transform on 256 rubidium atoms with record fidelity.