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What’s Happening in Quantum — and What It Means
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 ...
CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 Signed: A Quantum Leap for U.S. Tech
President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act (H.R. 4346, Public Law 117-167) into law on August 9, 2022 - a historic $280 billion package aimed at boosting U.S. high-tech manufacturing and research. While best known for providing $52 billion to revitalize domestic semiconductor fabrication, the ...
D-Wave Goes Public on the NYSE
D-Wave achieved a significant corporate milestone by listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “QBTS”. The public debut came via a merger with a SPAC (special-purpose acquisition company) and made D-Wave one of only three quantum computing companies in the world to ...
Xanadu’s Photonic Quantum Computer Achieves Advantage
Toronto-based startup Xanadu shook the quantum world by announcing that its Borealis photonic quantum computer had achieved quantum computational advantage - completing a specialized task exponentially faster than any classical supercomputer could. In a Nature-paper and accompanying demo, Borealis took on the Gaussian boson sampling ...
Swiss Government Unveils CHF 80 Million Quantum Initiative
The Swiss Federal Council approved a National Quantum Initiative in 2022, committing roughly CHF 80 million to quantum science and technology over 2023-2028. This marked Switzerland’s first centralized quantum tech program, aiming to unify and amplify efforts across research institutions and industry. The funds will ...
White House – Quantum Related National Security Memorandum
On May 4, 2022, the White House issued a significant policy directive through the "National Security Memorandum on Promoting United States Leadership in Quantum Computing While Mitigating Risks to Vulnerable Cryptographic Systems" or NSM-10. The memorandum highlights the urgency of developing quantum-resistant cryptographic systems to ...
