Latest Quantum Research & Methods News

  • Jun- 2025 -
    13 June
    Research News Oxford Trap Quantum Error Fidelity

    Oxford Achieves 10⁻⁷-Level Qubit Gate Error, Shattering Quantum Fidelity Records

    Physicists at the University of Oxford have set a new world record for quantum logic accuracy, achieving single-qubit gate error rates below 10^-7 – meaning fidelities exceeding 99.99999%. The breakthrough, reported in a study published in Physical Review Letters in June 2025 marks the lowest error ever recorded for any quantum computing platform. “As far as we are aware, this…

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  • May- 2025 -
    28 May
    Research News Quantum Breakthrough Slashes Qubit Needs for RSA-2048

    Quantum Breakthrough Slashes Qubit Needs for RSA-2048 Factoring

    A new research preprint by Google Quantum AI scientist Craig Gidney has dramatically lowered the estimated resources needed to break RSA-2048 encryption using a quantum computer. Gidney’s May 2025 paper, “How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers with less than a million noisy qubits,” argues that a fault-tolerant quantum computer with under 1 million qubits could factor a 2048-bit RSA…

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  • Mar- 2025 -
    20 March
    Research News Execution Times Kyber and Dilithium

    New Study Shows Post‑Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Doesn’t Have to Sacrifice Performance

    The new performance analysis of Kyber and Dilithium is a welcome addition to the PQC literature. It confirms that post‑quantum security and good performance are not mutually exclusive, especially when using optimized implementations. In fact, Kyber and Dilithium often outperform classical cryptography at comparable security levels. This challenges the narrative that PQC will drastically slow down our networks. At the…

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  • 13 March
    Industry & Ecosystem News D-wave quantum advantage

    D-Wave Claims Quantum Supremacy with Quantum Annealing

    D-Wave Quantum Inc. has announced a breakthrough, claiming to achieve quantum computational advantage – even “quantum supremacy” – using its quantum annealing technology on a practical problem. In a peer-reviewed study published in Science on March 12, 2025, D-Wave’s researchers report that their 5,000+ qubit Advantage2 prototype quantum annealer outperformed one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers (Oak Ridge National…

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  • 6 March
    Research News Fault-tolerant quantum architectures based on erasure qubits

    Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) with Erasure Qubits

    Fault-tolerant quantum architectures based on erasure qubits represent an exciting development in quantum engineering. They blend clever hardware design with advanced error-correcting codes to tackle the Achilles’ heel of quantum computers: noise. The research by Gu, Retzker, and Kubica shows that by making qubits a bit smarter about their own errors, we can significantly lower the overhead on the road…

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  • 4 March
    Industry & Ecosystem News Zuchongzhi 3.0

    Zuchongzhi 3.0 Quantum Chip: Technical Analysis and Implications

    China’s quantum computing powerhouse, the Zuchongzhi research teams, just unveiled Zuchongzhi 3.0, a new superconducting quantum processor with 105 qubits, marking a major leap in quantum computing performance. Announced in March 2025 by a University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) team led by Pan Jianwei, Zhu Xiaobo, and Peng Chengzhi, this prototype boasts unprecedented processing speed – reportedly…

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  • Feb- 2025 -
    28 February
    Industry & Ecosystem News Amazon AWS Ocelot Quantum Chip

    AWS Announces Ocelot Chip for Ultra-Reliable Qubits

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially unveiled Ocelot, its first in-house quantum computing chip, marking a significant milestone in the company’s quantum ambitions. Announced on February 27, 2025, Ocelot is a prototype processor designed from the ground up to tackle quantum error correction in a more resource-efficient way. AWS claims the new chip can reduce the overhead (and thus cost)…

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  • 23 February
    Industry & Ecosystem News Microsoft Majorana 1

    Microsoft’s Majorana-Based Quantum Chip – Beyond the Hype

    In February 2025, Microsoft unveiled “Majorana 1,” an eight-qubit quantum chip built on a topological qubit architecture – a first-of-its-kind design leveraging exotic Majorana quasiparticles. This chip uses a new material called a “topoconductor” (a specially engineered topological superconductor) made from indium arsenide and aluminum, which can host and control Majorana zero modes (MZMs) to serve as qubits. Microsoft’s announcement…

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  • Jan- 2025 -
    7 January
    Research News RSA-2048 Factorization BS

    First Successful Factorization of RSA-2048 by Quantum Computer? Not Even Close!

    Chinese researchers published “A First Successful Factorization of RSA-2048 Integer by D-Wave Quantum Computer.” To get straight to the point - the title is misleading. The authors did NOT factor a general RSA-2048 key (as used in real cryptography); instead, they factored a specially structured 2048-bit semiprime chosen to be extremely easy.

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  • Dec- 2024 -
    11 December
    Industry & Ecosystem News Google Willow Quantum Computing Chip

    Google Announces Willow Quantum Chip

    Google has unveiled a new quantum processor named “Willow”, marking a major milestone in the race toward practical quantum computing. The 105-qubit Willow chip demonstrates two breakthroughs that have long eluded researchers: it dramatically reduces error rates as qubit count scales up, and it completed a computational task in minutes that would take a classical supercomputer longer than the age…

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  • Nov- 2024 -
    20 November
    Industry & Ecosystem News IBM Heron 2 Quantum Chip

    IBM Unveils 156-Qubit ‘Heron R2’ Quantum Processor

    IBM has announced a new 156-qubit quantum processor called Heron R2, marking a significant upgrade to its quantum computing hardware portfolio. The Heron R2 chip is the second-generation follow-up to IBM’s 133-qubit “Heron” processor introduced in late 2023. Building on its predecessor, the Heron R2 not only adds more qubits but also delivers major improvements in qubit coherence, gate fidelity,…

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  • Jun- 2024 -
    26 June
    Research News Quantum Threat RSA 1730 Qubits

    RSA-2048 Within Reach of 1730 Qubits. Or is it?

    The paper’s main claim is striking: by using approximate residue arithmetic and other optimizations, one can factor an RSA-2048 number with around 1730 logical qubits – dramatically down from the ~4000–6000 logical qubits required by earlier methods. (See one of my recent posts "4,099 Qubits: The Myth and Reality of Breaking RSA-2048 with Quantum Computers" for more info on how…

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  • May- 2024 -
    11 May
    Industry & Ecosystem News Xiaohong

    China Unveils Xiaohong: A 504-Qubit Processor

    Chinese researchers have announced “Xiaohong”, a new superconducting quantum processor boasting 504 qubits – the largest such chip ever built in China​. This record-breaking processor, developed by the CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics in collaboration with industry partner QuantumCTek, vaults China into the upper echelon of quantum hardware achievements. Xiaohong’s qubit count surpasses previous domestic…

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  • 7 May
    Research News Hole-Spin Qubits

    Hole-Spin Qubits Demonstrated in Silicon FinFETs

    In a significant quantum computing breakthrough, researchers from the University of Basel and IBM Research–Zurich have achieved a controlled interaction between two quantum bits inside a standard silicon transistor. The team’s new paper “Anisotropic exchange interaction of two hole-spin qubits” in Nature Physics reports that they realized high-speed, high-fidelity operations between hole-spin qubits implemented in a fin field-effect transistor (FinFET)…

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  • Apr- 2024 -
    20 April
    Research News Imperial Quantum Internet

    Major Leap for Quantum Internet: First Critical Connection

    London, April 2024 – In a groundbreaking advancement for the future of global communication, researchers from Imperial College London and their partners at the Universities of Southampton, Stuttgart, and Würzburg have established a core link necessary for the quantum internet, enabling, for the first time, the production, storage, and retrieval of quantum information in a single system. According to the…

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