Week Ending 2 | 21 | 2026

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BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

Pa$qal Pur$ue$ Major Funding Round For Neutral Atom Quantum Growth

Microcloud Hologram Quantum Intelligent Interconnected Fault-Tolerant Consensus Algorithm For Financial Nodes

Bitcoin’s 2-Step Quantum Plan, US Crypto Policy

SealsQ Announces FY 2025 Preliminary Financials With 66 Percent Revenue Growth To $18M

Pharmacelera Raises $6M To Expand In US And Build Out Its Discovery Platform

Doh! Italian Court Annuls €47M IBM Quantum Computer Contract For University Of Salerno

AQT And Scaleway Partner To Deliver Quantum Computing To Europe

Aliro Raises $15M In Oversubscribed Round For Physics-Based Network Security

Rigetti Computing Report Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2025

MicroAlign Secures €2.5 Million EIC Accelerator Grant to Industrialize Scalable Fiber Arrays for Quantum Computing and Beyond

VC Quantonation Closes €220M Fund To Back Next-Gen Physics Tech

Kazakhstan And Singapore Open Quantum Technology Center In Almaty

Today – 17 Feb – Infleqtion [INFQ] Goes Public Through Merger With Churchill Capital Corp X

Keyfactor Gains Recognition For Post-Quantum Security Work

Delta Gold Signs Sponsorship And Licensing Deal With Penn State For Gold Quantum Technologies

Universal Quantum and Atlas Copco Partner on Vacuum Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computers

Singapore Budget 2026 Prioritizes Quantum Technology For Innovation Hub Status

Qant Appoints Dr Lars Bach As Vice President Operations

D-Wave Sets Date For Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results

SECURITY & POLICY

LuxQuanta Validates NOVA LQ Quantum Cybersecurity System In MADQuantum Project

Secure Quantum Applications For Real-World Multi-User Networks

NISQ-Compatible Quantum Cryptography Using Parrondo Dynamics In Discrete-Time Quantum Walks

Arqit And 6Wind Launch Integrations For Quantum-Safe Services By Telco Providers

Quantum Paradox Discussion At Apex Analytix

Quantum Industry Canada Calls For Sovereign Quantum In Defence Strategy

Comcast, Classiq and AMD Demonstrate Quantum Algorithm for More Resilient and Reliable Internet

QKD Vulnerability: Beam Misalignment Effects Quantified In Quantum Key Distribution Systems

Australia Pursues Quantum Industry Growth Through National Strategy

EU Limits Chinese Participation In Quantum And Related Horizon Funding

Bitcoin Faces Quantum Risks For Lost Coins In Upgrade Discussions

Data Discipline Forms Basis For Quantum Encryption Readiness

Trump Administration Launches $100M National Quantum and Nanotechnology Research Infrastructure Program

NETWORKS & COMMUNICATIONS

IrelandQCI Shows Quantum Communication In Municipal Network Demo

Qunnect and Cisco Demonstrate First Metro-Scale, High-Speed Quantum Entanglement Swapping Over Commercial Fiber

Photonic Inc Partners With Telus For Quantum Teleportation Over Existing Fibre

Europe Deploys Euro-Q-Exa Quantum Computer In Germany For Sovereign Digital Infrastructure

MicroCloud Hologram Describes GHZ and W-State Transmission Model for Brownian Quantum Channels

RIT and U Rochester Secure Funding To Expand Quantum Communication Network

RESEARCH & BREAKTHROUGHS

Giant Superatoms Unlock New Toolbox For Quantum Computers

Non-Commutative Dynamic Approaches To The Kibble-Zurek Scaling Limit With An Initial Gapless Order

UConn Improves Speed of Quantum Degenerate Cooling for Atoms

Report: Trapped-Ion Thermometry Via Cavity-Based EIT

Magnetism Emerges From Atomic Clustering In Tantalum Tungsten Selenium Crystal

Single-Shot Parity Readout Demonstrated In Minimal Kitaev Chain For Majorana Qubits

OQC Shows Wafer-Scale Packaging For Over 500 Superconducting Qubits

Experiment Probes Fractional Chern Insulator Properties

Recirculating Photonic Networks Enable Faster Deterministic Quantum Processing

Real-Time Non-Destructive Certification Of Entangled Quantum States

Encrypted Cloning Allows Qubit Duplication With Single-Use Keys

Illinois Physicists Propose Protocol For Photonic Graph States

HARDWARE

Xanadu and Tower Semiconductor Deepen Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Photonic Quantum Hardware Innovation

Super-Fast Fluctuation Detection To Improve Qubit Performance At Niels Bohr Institute

Instruction-Set Architecture For Programmable NV-Center Quantum Repeater Nodes

Riken Reduces Noise in Quantum Computer Readout Amplifier

Pasqal Supplies Italy With First Neutral Atom Quantum Computer

Silicon Quantum Processor Detects Single-Qubit Errors Without Entanglement Loss

Cryogenic Chip Enables Scalable Diamond Quantum Computing With NV Centers

Fire Opal Supports Larger Circuits And Dynamic Execution On Noisy Quantum Hardware

India’s First Commercial 8-Qubit Quantum Computer to Arrive at Bengaluru Campus

Study: Real-Time Non-Destructive Verification of Entangled Quantum States via Optical Switching

Tu Delft Introduces New Chip Architecture For Spin Qubits

PsiQuantum Provides Deep Dive Into Photonic Quantum Computing Efforts

Interference Between Adjacent Quantum Dots Necessitates Error Correction For Reliable Quantum Computing

SOFTWARE & ALGORITHMS

Open-Access Circuit Designer Released For Quantum Algorithm Designers

Simplifying Quantum Simulations Through Symmetry

Scaling Study: Scalable Clifford-Based Classical Initialization For The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

AQT Quantum Computer Goes Live On Scaleway Cloud

Kipu Quantum Launches Rimay Quantum-Enhanced Feature Extraction for Machine Learning

Wimi Studies Hybrid Quantum-Classical Inception Neural Network Model For Image Classification

TensorCircuit-NG A Universal Composable Scalable Platform For Quantum Computing And Simulation

Intel Archives Open-Source Quantum Compiler Passes Project

Avoiding Flat Training Zones In Quantum Data-Generating Circuits

Infleqtion Advances ARPA-E Quantum Computing Grid Optimization Program

Optimized Tesseract Decoder Boosts Quantum Error Correction Speed by Up to 5x

QAOA Handles Integer Graph Problems with Qudits Outperforming SDP in Regimes

Gradient Study Addresses Barren Plateaus in Multi-Qubit Parameterized Circuits

SENSING & METROLOGY

Trial Speeds Up Next Generation Of Atomic Clocks

Study: The Multiparameter Frontier Metrological Hierarchy And Robustness In Dispersive Quantum Interferometry

Study: Quantum Sensing And Computation Using Indefinite Causal Order

Compressed Sensing Applied To Shadow Tomography For Time-Series Reconstruction

Quantum Sensor Experiment Probes Ultralight Dark Matter Candidates

Intercity Nuclear-Spin Quantum Sensor Network Probes Axion Dark Matter

ACADEMIA & WORKFORCE

British Columbia Funds Quantum And Clean Tech Projects At University Of Victoria

Now Is The Time To Invest In Quantum Computing Clemson University Researchers State

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