QuantWare’s Contralto-A Quantum Processor Wins Quantum Effects Award 2025 for Leading Quantum Error Correction
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuantWare, the world’s highest-volume supplier of commercial quantum processing units (QPUs), has won the Quantum Computing Hardware category of the Quantum Effects Award 2025 for Contralto-A, the largest commercially available processor designed for quantum error correction. The award was received yesterday at the Quantum Effects conference in Stuttgart and recognizes QuantWare’s global […]
IonQ Completes Acquisition of Vector Atomic
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), the world’s leading quantum company, today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Vector Atomic, the leading quantum sensing company based in California. The all-stock transaction significantly expands and rounds out IonQ’s quantum technology platform by adding the world’s most advanced precision atomic clocks, inertial sensors, and […]
Aqora’s New Datasets Hub Is Building the Infrastructure for Quantum Adoption
Insider Brief: In the past decade, quantum computing has shifted from the pages of academic journals into the real-time strategies and visions of policymakers, investors, and industry leaders. Yet the field remains fragmented, caught between what is possible and the realities of enterprise adoption. What is often missing is the connective tissue, such as the […]
What Is Quantum Tunneling? How a 2025 Nobel-Winning Experiment Brought It Into the Real World
Updated: October 19, 2026 Insider Brief Quantum tunneling (or quantum tunnelling) is when a particle passes through an energy barrier it does not have enough energy to cross. It happens because particles behave like waves, and it drives everything from fusion in the Sun to flash memory and quantum computers. Whether it’s playing a lonely […]
Clarke, Devoret And Martinis Win 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics For Revealing Quantum Effects in Macroscopic Circuits
Insider Brief The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for their work in the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation, according to a statement from the academy. Their work, carried out in the 1980s, proved that […]
First Real-time Measurement of Quantum Uncertainty With Ultrafast Squeezed Light
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The uncertainty principle, proposed by Werner Heisenberg nearly a century ago, has remained a central pillar of quantum mechanics, dictating that certain properties of light and matter cannot be simultaneously measured with arbitrary precision. Until now, however, the uncertainty principle had never been directly observed and tracked in real time. […]
Chip-based Phonon Splitter Brings Hybrid Quantum Networks Closer to Reality
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Researchers have created a chip-based device that can split phonons — tiny packets of mechanical vibration that can carry information in quantum systems. By filling a key gap, this device could help connect various quantum devices via phonons, paving the way for advanced computing and secure quantum communication. “Phonons can […]
Quantum for Everyone: A New Global Course Launches to Promote Quantum Literacy
Insider Brief: PRESS RELEASE — Following the successful launch of the National Quantum Course in The Hague on World Quantum Day last year, the next major step in bringing quantum technology closer to the public is already underway in this UN International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. On July 11, the International Quantum Course […]
Quantum City to Host Annual Summit to Tackle Tech Adoption in a Changing World
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The University of Calgary’s Quantum City will host the annual qConnect summit from November 5th to 6th, bringing together quantum creators and users to transform ideas into impact. As part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, qConnect 2025 will feature insightful talks, expert panels and strategic networking opportunities. […]
California Enacts Law to Build Statewide Strategy for Quantum Technology
Insider Brief California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed Assembly Bill 940 into law, establishing the state’s first coordinated strategy to develop its quantum technology sector and expand industrial planning across key strategic industries identified in the California Jobs First State Economic Blueprint. The legislation, authored by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) and signed Friday at the […]