Industry News & Commentary
What’s Happening in Quantum — and What It Means
Report “The Quantum Threat to the US Financial System”
A new, interesting, report was just published by the Hudson institute - "Prosperity at Risk: The Quantum Computer Threat to the US Financial System," authored by Alexander W. Butler and Arthur Herman of the Quantum Alliance Initiative at the Hudson Institute. This comprehensive study explores ...
Google Claims Breakthrough in Quantum Error Correction
Feb 2023 - Quantum computers hold the promise of tackling problems beyond the reach of classical machines, but they are notoriously fragile. Even tiny disturbances can introduce errors into quantum computations. To build a fault-tolerant quantum computer - one that can reliably run long computations ...
Scientists Achieve Entanglement Between Two Light Sources
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Ruhr University Bochum have made a significant breakthrough in quantum technology by achieving controlled interaction between two quantum light sources, or quantum emitters, embedded in a nanophotonic waveguide. This development, reported in Science, is a foundational step toward ...
Canada Launches a National Quantum Strategy
In January 2023, the Government of Canada formally unveiled its National Quantum Strategy, a comprehensive plan backed by a federal investment of $360 million. Announced in Waterloo, Ontario by Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, the strategy is designed to amplify Canada’s strengths in quantum research, grow quantum ...
Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act
On December 21, 2022, President Joe Biden officially signed H.R.7535, known as the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, into law. This legislation urges federal agencies to upgrade their technologies to defend against potential quantum computing threats. The act is a crucial step in the United ...
2022 Quantum Threat Timeline Report Published
The "2022 Quantum Threat Timeline Report" by the Global Risk Institute, authored by Dr. Michele Mosca and Dr. Marco Piani from evolutionQ Inc. was just published. This report provides analysis of the quantum threat landscape and tries to predict the arrival of the Q-Day by ...
IBM Osprey: A 433-Qubit Quantum Leap
IBM has announced Osprey, a superconducting quantum processor with a record-breaking 433 qubits – by far the largest of its kind as of its 2022 debut. Revealed at the IBM Quantum Summit in November 2022, Osprey more than triples the qubit count of IBM’s previous ...
White House Memo Urges Federal Agencies to Prepare for Post-Quantum Cryptography
November 20, 2022 - The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued a new memorandum that could reshape federal cybersecurity for the coming quantum era. OMB Memorandum M-23-02, titled "Migrating to Post-Quantum Cryptography," was released on November 18, 2022 and directs U.S ...
Switzerland and United States Forge Quantum Cooperation
In October 2022, Switzerland and the U.S. signed a Joint Statement on Cooperation in Quantum Information Science and Technology, pledging to deepen collaboration between the countries’ researchers and institutions. The agreement, signed in Washington D.C. by Switzerland’s State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation and ...
ENISA Publishes “Post-Quantum Cryptography – Integration study”
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has released a report titled "Post-Quantum Cryptography - Integration Study," offering a comprehensive look at the challenges and necessities of integrating post-quantum cryptographic systems. This publication follows ENISA's 2021 study on the current state of post-quantum cryptography and ...
NSA Unveils CNSA 2.0 Post-Quantum Algorithm Suite
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has officially announced the release of the Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0 (CNSA 2.0), a new set of cryptographic standards designed to protect sensitive systems against future quantum-enabled cyber threats. The NSA’s cybersecurity advisory notifies National Security System ...
Silicon’s First Attempts at Self-Repair: Phase-Flip Error Correction Demonstrated in Semiconductor Spin Qubits
25 Aug 2022 - Seven months ago, three teams simultaneously proved that silicon spin qubits could operate above the fault-tolerance threshold — the quality of individual gates good enough, in principle, for error correction to work. That was the prerequisite. Now comes the thing itself ...