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China’s Quantum OS Play: Origin Pilot and the Battle for the Integration Layer
China's Origin Pilot isn't just another quantum SDK — it's a top-down systems integration layer that challenges the West's bottom-up approach to quantum open architecture.
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Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (qLDPC) Codes
Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check (qLDPC) codes are an emerging class of quantum error-correcting codes that promise to significantly reduce the overhead required for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Much like their classical LDPC counterparts, qLDPC codes are defined by sparse parity-check constraints: each check (stabilizer) acts on only a small number of qubits, and each qubit participates in only a few checks. This sparse structure can enable more…
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Quantum Open Architecture (QOA): The “PC Moment” of Quantum Computing
Today, a sea change is underway. Quantum Open Architecture (QOA) is doing for quantum computing what the PC revolution did for classical computing - opening up the ecosystem. Just as the computing world shifted from monolithic mainframes to modular PCs with swappable parts, quantum tech is embracing modularity and specialization. Instead of one vendor building and owning the whole machine, different specialists provide the processor,…
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How the EU Can Capture the Benefits of Quantum Computing
The European Union has entered the global quantum race with determination - aiming not just to excel in research, but to translate breakthroughs into economic and strategic benefits. In July 2025, the European Commission unveiled the Quantum Europe Strategy, a roadmap to make Europe a “quantum industrial powerhouse” by 2030. This strategy acknowledges Europe’s historic strength in quantum science - from pioneers like Planck and…
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Experimental Quantum Error Correction Below Threshold
When Harvard’s neutral-atom team quietly dropped their new paper on a fault-tolerant architecture for universal quantum computation, a few days ago, it felt like the field had crossed an invisible line. For years we’ve had impressive pieces of the puzzle - better qubits here, a clever code there, some elegant theory everywhere – but Lukin’s group managed to put all of the core ingredients of…
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A Quantum Contrarian Con Artist
In the growing spotlight on quantum technology, a new kind of opportunist is taking the stage - the contrarian con artist. These are not the honest skeptics who ask hard questions in good faith. They are bad-faith actors cloaking themselves in “skepticism” to hijack the discourse around quantum computing and its related fields. As investment and public interest pour into quantum computing - along with…
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Analysis of Quantinuum Helios, a 98‑Qubit Trapped‑Ion Quantum Computer
In November 2025, Quantinuum unveiled Helios, a new 98-qubit quantum processor that pushes the frontier of quantum computing with a novel trapped-ion architecture. It also published an accompanying paper on arXiv "Helios: A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer." Helios is based on the quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) design, meaning it physically moves ion qubits around on a chip like an information bus, rather than relying on…
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Predicting Quantum Computing Winning 2025 Nobel Physics Prize
Announcements of 2025 Nobel Prize winners start tomorrow. With announcements for Nobel Prize for Physics scheduled for Tuesday 7 October. Every autumn I indulge in a guilty pleasure: browsing speculative lists of Nobel Prize contenders and trying to guess who might pick up the world’s most coveted science prize. Part of the fun is that the Nobel process is shrouded in secrecy. According to the…
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