QuEra Announces Leadership Transition as CEO Alex Keesling to Focus on High-Volume Production and Technology Enhancements
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — QuEra, a pioneering neutral-atom quantum computing company, announced today that Alex Keesling will transition from CEO to take on a new role in leading QuEra’s efforts to achieve higher-volume production and enhance its technology leadership, a critical strategic priority for the company. The Board of Directors appointed board member Andy […]
Push-Button Entanglement: Scientists Achieve Reliable Quantum Entanglement Between Resting and Flying Qubits
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Entanglement, Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance”, today is THE tool of quantum information science. It is the essential resource for quantum computers and used to transmit quantum information in a future quantum network. But it is highly sensitive and it is an enormous challenge to entangle resting quantum bits […]
Quantum Dot Emitters Generate Entangled Photons, Violating Bell Inequality
A study in Nature Physics introduces a novel method for generating quantum entanglement using a quantum dot, which violates the Bell inequality. This ultra-low power method could pave the way for scalable and efficient quantum technologies. Quantum entanglement is essential for quantum computing, where qubits become correlated regardless of their distance. Measuring one qubit impacts […]
IQM Quantum Computers Achieves Technological Milestones With 99.9% 2-Qubit Gate Fidelity And 1 Millisecond Coherence Time
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IQM Quantum Computers, a global leader in building quantum computers, has reached significant milestones in superconducting quantum computing, demonstrating improvements in two key metrics characterising the quality of quantum computer. A record low error rate for two-qubit operations was achieved by demonstrating a CZ gate between two qubits with (99.91 […]
MIT’s Peter Shor Receives 2025 Claude E. Shannon Award
Insider Brief The IEEE Information Theory Society announced that Peter Shor, the Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is the recipient of the 2025 Claude E. Shannon Award. The award recognizes Shor’s consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. Shor will deliver the Shannon Lecture at […]
Quantum Computing’s Next Frontier, A Conversation with Jeremy O’Brien
Jeremy O’Brien, CEO of PsiQuantum, is developing the world’s first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer. At the Third Annual Commercialising Quantum Global event hosted by The Economist, O’Brien discussed quantum computing, detailing the path PsiQuantum is taking and the exciting potential of their technology. O’Brien explained that fault-tolerant quantum computers are essential because errors are inevitable […]
Scientists Report Future Quantum Sensors May Be Able to ‘Travel Back in Time’
Insider Brief In a study published recently in Physical Review Letters, researchers unveiled a new type of quantum sensor that they report leverages quantum entanglement to perform detections that, note the quote marks, “travel back in time”. The researchers add the findings could — one day — lead to novel quantum sensors that are ideally […]
Superposition Guy’s Podcast — Quantum at Keysight Technologies
“The Superposition Guy’s Podcast”, hosted by Yuval Boger, CCO at QuEra Computing Lon Hintze, Clayton Crocker, John Dorighi, and Philip Krantz from Keysight, are interviewed by Yuval Boger. They discuss their comprehensive support for quantum projects, the specific advantages and testing needs of various modalities, the growing significance of benchmarking and AI integration in quantum […]
Guest Post — Controlling the Qubits: Overcoming DC Bias and Size Challenges in Quantum
Guest Post by Gobinath Tamil Vanan (bio below) Quantum computing, with its promise of efficient calculations in challenging applications, is rapidly advancing in research and development. The pivotal technology for quantum computing lies in the control and evaluation of qubits. Quantum computing is gaining attention for its ability to solve complex problems that prove […]
Ben Bloom Returns as CEO of Atom Computing
Insider Brief Ben Bloom, the founder and former CEO of Atom Computing, is set to return to the top executive role at the quantum computing company. According to GovConWire, this leadership change follows the departure of Rob Hays, who stepped down to pursue other opportunities. Citing a recent company statement cited by GovConWire, Bloom will […]