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Research Roundup for July 2021
By Dr. Chris Mansell Shown below are summaries of a few interesting research papers in quantum computing and communications that have...
Jul 29, 20215 min read
Quantum Machines to Work with European Institutions to Develop Schrödinger Cat State Error Correc...
Quantum Machines has announced that it is joining researchers at the University of Innsbruck, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Mines...
Jul 29, 20211 min read
IBM Installs a Quantum System One in Japan
The machine has been installed at IBM Research’s Shin-Kawasaki facility is located at NANOBIC, a joint research facility operated by...
Jul 27, 20211 min read
PsiQuantum Raises $450 Million in Series D Funding
The round was led by funds and accounts managed by Blackrock with participation from existing investors Baillie Gifford and M12...
Jul 27, 20212 min read
Super.tech Labs Receives a $256,000 Award from the NSF for Research Into Quantum Compilation Methods
The award for Super.tech came from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and will...
Jul 26, 20211 min read
Recommended Reading: White Papers from IBM and BCG
Recently, two organizations have developed substantial white papers that discuss the status of quantum computing and provide insights of...
Jul 24, 20213 min read
U.S. Department of Energy Awards $73 Million to 29 Projects for Quantum Information Science Research
The awards from the Department of Energy (DOE) will study the materials and chemical processes needed to develop the next generation of...
Jul 24, 20211 min read
Quantum Algorithms Institute Receives $2.21 million CAD ($1.76M USD) from the Canadian Government...
The Quantum Algorithms Institute has been recently established on the Surrey campus of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia,...
Jul 24, 20211 min read


ImpaQT Project Receives €600 Thousand ($706K USD) in Funding to Create a Quantum Computer Kit
We reported last January on the formation of the ImpaQT consortium. This is a group of Dutch companies involved with quantum technology...
Jul 23, 20211 min read
Honeywell Improves Their H1 QPU to Achieve a Quantum Volume of 1024; Google Improves Sycamore Too
In the auto industry, car makers will often make minor improvements in the cars without completely introducing a new model. Oftentimes...
Jul 23, 20212 min read
Quantum Computing Inc. Partners with IPQ Analytics for Healthcare Data Analytics and Completes Li...
When people discuss how pharmaceutical companies can leverage quantum computing the usage of computational chemistry for drug discovery...
Jul 22, 20212 min read
Aliro Quantum Receives Funding from the U.S. Air Force for Two Quantum Networking Projects
Aliro Quantum is a quantum networking platform company that spun out of NarangLab at Harvard University that develops simulation and...
Jul 22, 20211 min read
Atom Computing Gains a CEO, a $15 Million Series A Funding and Membership to the 100 Qubit Club
Atom Computing, a Berkeley, California quantum hardware startup founded in 2018 has been working in stealth mode for the past three...
Jul 21, 20212 min read
Xanadu Wins DARPA Grant to Develop a "Circuit Cutting" Quantum Compiler
The problem with many quantum programs right now is that the programs require more qubits than are available in the current hardware. To...
Jul 20, 20211 min read
Google’s Sycamore Tests Reveal the Real Price of Quantum Error Correction
By Andre Saraiva, UNSW The Google Quantum AI team published a paper in Nature called “Exponential suppression of bit or phase errors with...
Jul 18, 20214 min read
European Commission's Horizon Europe and Canada's NSERC Team to Issue a Call for Proposals with a...
The European Commission's Horizon Europe and Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) are partnering...
Jul 17, 20211 min read
IBM Opens Up Pulse Gate Capability to Everyone and also Sponsors an IEEE SERVICES Hackathon
IBM had announced in late 2019 a new capability called OpenPulse that would allow programmers to program their quantum computers at the...
Jul 17, 20212 min read
Quantum Delta NL Creates €2 Million ($2.36M USD) Fund Pre-Seed Fund for Quantum Startups
We reported in May on an initiative from Dutch-based Quantum Delta NL called Lightspeed to support Dutch based quantum startup with...
Jul 16, 20211 min read


QuantWare Starts Selling Off-the-Shelf QPUs and Raises €1.15 Million ($1.36M USD) in a Pre-Seed R...
QuantWare was founded in 2020 as a spinoff of QuTech, a quantum technology research institute at TU Delft in the Netherlands, with a goal...
Jul 16, 20212 min read
Duality Quantum Accelerator Names the Initial Members of Its First Cohort
Last April, we reported on the creation of a new Duality Quantum Accelerator in Chicago led by the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center...
Jul 15, 20212 min read
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