Post-Quantum Cryptography Intelligence Archive
Historical analysis of quantum computing developments and PQC standards
47 Articles AnalyzedPost-Quantum Cryptography Report
2026-10-13Google Quantum AI Introduces Virtual Error Cancellation for Universal Logical Circuits
Google Quantum AI has developed Virtual Error Cancellation (VEC), a classical post-processing technique that significantly reduces logical errors in fault-tolerant quantum circuits. VEC uses a dual-decoder approach, combining a fast real-time decoder...
QuantumcomputingreportUniversity of Pennsylvania Team Demonstrates On-Chip Photonic Quantum Skyrmion Transfer in Nature Physics
A University of Pennsylvania-led team has successfully demonstrated the on-chip transfer of photonic quantum skyrmions, topological light structures, from single photons to entangled states. This was achieved using integrated nanophotonic chips and e...
QuantumcomputingreportPodcast with Walter Raquet, Chairman and CEO of Symmatrics
Yuval Boger speaks with Walter Raquet, Chairman and CEO of Symmatrics, a company that has revived the one-time pad symmetric key encryption concept — once used exclusively by US intelligence agencies — and brought it to the internet age using quantum...
QuantumcomputingreportIonQ Demonstrates Scheduled qLDPC Error Correction to Accelerate Fault-Tolerant Gate Execution by up to 74x
IonQ researchers have developed a new hybrid physical/logical execution strategy for quantum error correction, significantly accelerating fault-tolerant quantum computing. This approach, detailed in a recent arXiv paper, utilizes scheduled qLDPC erro...
QuantumcomputingreportIonQ to Acquire Elisity for Up to $1.3 Billion to Integrate Zero Trust with Post-Quantum Cybersecurity
IonQ is set to acquire Elisity for up to $1.3 billion in an all-stock deal, integrating Elisity's Zero Trust cybersecurity with IonQ's post-quantum cryptography. This acquisition, expected to close in Q4 2026, aims to enhance IonQ's security offering...
QuantumcomputingreportIBM Launches Directed Execution Model and Executor Primitive to Give Researchers Client-Side Control Over QEC Workflows
IBM Quantum has launched a new directed execution model with the Executor primitive in qiskit-ibm-runtime v0.50.0. This framework shifts error mitigation to the client side, giving researchers greater control over quantum error correction (QEC) workf...
QuantumcomputingreportIBM Expands Qiskit Beyond Python with Native C API Bindings for Fortran, C++, and Julia
IBM Quantum has expanded its Qiskit open-source software to include native C API bindings for Fortran, C++, and Julia. This allows researchers to integrate quantum circuits directly into high-performance computing (HPC) applications without Python, i...
QuantumcomputingreportQuIC Whitepaper Calls for Industrial Scale-Up Infrastructure in EU Chips Act 2.0
The European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) has released a whitepaper responding to the EU Chips Act 2.0 proposal, advocating for dedicated industrialization pathways to bridge the gap between quantum chip prototyping and production. QuIC highlig...
QuantumcomputingreportXanadu Cuts Quantum Read-Only Memory Costs by ~4x via Dense Encoding
Xanadu has achieved a nearly 4-fold reduction in Quantum Read-Only Memory (QROM) costs by developing an algorithmic technique that reduces the non-Clifford gate cost. This was accomplished through two innovations: Sequential Bit Packets and SelectCop...
QuantumcomputingreportUniversity of Saskatchewan Researchers Achieve Record Hyperbolic Surface Code Efficiency for Modular Fault-Tolerant Architectures
University of Saskatchewan researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum error correction by developing geometry-optimized hyperbolic surface codes. This innovation significantly improves code efficiency by optimizing periodic boundary conditio...
QuantumcomputingreportRunning scalable hybrid quantum-classical workflows by integrating Amazon Braket with AWS Batch
Practical quantum computing is hybrid: a quantum processing unit (QPU) executes a classically hard subroutine whose problem structure is amenable to quantum methods, while classical resources handle the surrounding computation. What varies across qua...
AwsCombating quantum noise with AWS: University of Washington Capstone Project
Quantum computers promise to solve problems beyond the reach of classical machines, but they share a stubborn adversary: noise. Quantum bits (qubits) are exquisitely sensitive to their environment, gates are imperfect, measurements introduce bias, an...
AwsDemonstrating genuine multipartite non-locality on quantum processors using Amazon Braket
This post was contributed by Federico Hernán Holik, Andrés Camilo Granda Arango, Carlo Cuccu, Roberto Giuntini, Giuseppe Sergioli, Peter Komar, and Ishaan Pakrasi. Quantum physics produces correlations that no classical theory can reproduce, and test...
AwsAWS and JPMorganChase collaborate to advance quantum computing R&D
This post was contributed by Martin Schuetz and Ruben Andrist from the Amazon Advanced Solutions Lab, and Romina Yalovetzky and Atithi Acharya from Global Technology Applied Research at JPMorganChase. Quantum researchers at JPMorganChase and the Amaz...
AwsThermodynamic sampling of disordered materials with an analog Hamiltonian Rydberg simulator
This post was contributed by Mao Lin, Bruno Camino, John Buckeridge and Scott M. Woodley Many advanced materials — from battery electrodes to semiconductor alloys — owe their useful properties to atomic-scale disorder. But predicting how atoms arrang...
AwsA framework for quantum-classical integration decisions
This post was contributed by Dimitar Trenev, Sebastian Stern, Tyler Takeshita, Cedric Lin, Peter Komar, Pooja Rao, Jerome Gonthier, and Elica Kyoseva. As quantum computing matures toward fault tolerance, a pressing question faces the high-performance...
AwsExplore NVIDIA CUDA-Q Applications Hub and Academic Library with Amazon Braket
Amazon Braket managed notebook instances (NBIs) now include NVIDIA CUDA-Q Applications Hub and CUDA-Q Academic Library launch notebooks, bringing peer-reviewed quantum research examples and structured learning resources directly into your Braket envi...
AwsClassiq and AWS Power Quantum-Classical Chemistry Innovation in Singapore with Hatch
Introduction In biochemical processes development and analysis, binding energy, the energy released when a small molecule docks into a protein’s active site, determines how strongly a compound, such as a ligand, interacts with its protein target. Ear...
AwsAWS Deepens Strategic Collaboration with QuEra to Bring Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing to Amazon Braket
AWS and QuEra will bring the first fault-tolerant quantum computers to the cloud, enabling scientifically relevant applications starting in 2028. Since launching Amazon Braket in 2020, AWS has provided customers access to quantum computing hardware a...
AwsRealizing the fermionic Laughlin state on a trapped-ion quantum processor
This post was contributed by Lingnan Shen, Mao Lin, Cedric Yen-Yu Lin, Di Xiao, and Ting Cao Quantum computing is beginning to simulate forms of matter that are difficult to study in the lab or compute classically. In this work, researchers from Univ...
AwsIntroducing the New Small Business Cybersecurity Support Program Finder
For small businesses who are often confronted with limited resources, knowing how to get started and where to find support with planning, implementing, or evaluating a cybersecurity risk management strategy can be challenging — sometimes making cyber...
NistSecuring Water and Wastewater Operational Technology Environments
Recent cyberattacks on the U.S. water and wastewater systems (WWS) sector are highlighting the escalating threat to our nation’s critical infrastructure and the practical challenges of securing it. These incidents underscore an important challenge: t...
NistBack to the Future: Why Agentic AI Needs a Strong Identity Foundation
As AI matures, enterprises and customers are rapidly deploying agents seeking to unlock the next level of automation and productivity. Agentic AI shows potential to handle a multitude of use cases, from buying personal items on Amazon to customer ser...
NistNIST Releases Tips & Tactics for Building Automation & Control System Cybersecurity
Recent cyberattacks highlight the growing threat to operational technology (OT) used in critical infrastructure. Whether you work for an infrastructure owner/operator or are a consumer of an infrastructure service, the events of the past few weeks ha...
NistStronger Cybersecurity Programs Start with People: NIST Wants Your Input on the Path Forward for Human-Centered Cybersecurity
When was the last time a cybersecurity process at work made you want to scream? Maybe it was a password requirement so complicated you had to write it down (defeating the purpose), a phishing simulation test that felt more like a trap than a lesson, ...
NistShaping the NVD for the Future: We Need Your Feedback on AI-Enabled Vulnerability Management
For over two decades, the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) has served as the U.S. government repository for standards-based vulnerability management data and as a foundational resource for cybersecurity risk analysis, vulnerability manageme...
NistVerifiable Digital Credential Presentment
This blog post is #4 in our series on Verifiable Digital Credentials (VDCs). Our other posts can be found via Post #1, Post #2, and Post #3. In earlier posts, we discussed how verifiable digital credentials (VDCs) are issued and compared the underlyi...
NistAdvancing Product Security: New IoT Guidance and New Engagement
It may be summertime, but the NIST Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things (IoT) Program isn’t hitting the hammock! Organizations are managing growing device complexity, evolving threats, and pressure to turn guidance into operational decisions…so w...
NistStronger Cybersecurity, Stronger Business: NIST Celebrates 2026 National Small Business Week
Happy National Small Business Week! For over 60 years, the U.S. Small Business Administration has led this initiative to acknowledge the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners. Part of the U.S. Department of Comme...
NistFrom DMV to Wallet: Understanding Verifiable Digital Credential Issuance
In our last post in this series, we compared two credential formats that shape the digital identity ecosystem: ISO/IEC 18013-5 and -7 mobile documents (mdocs) and W3C Verifiable Credentials (VCs). Both formats define how a credential is structured an...
NistAlice & Bob Decodes LDPC-Cat Codes on GPUs With NVIDIA NVQLink
Insider Link PRESS RELEASE — Alice & Bob, a leader in fault-tolerant quantum computing, today shared results from implementing GPUs to decode its LDPC-cat architecture using NVIDIA NVQLink. The proof of concept using synthetic data is the f...
ThequantuminsiderWISeSat.Space Develops Post-Quantum Security for Satellite Communications
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — WISeSat.Space (Nasdaq: SAIQ) (“WISeSat.Space” or the “Company”) today outlined its strategy to integrate post-quantum cryptography (“PQC”) into its next-generation satellite communications and Internet of Things (“...
ThequantuminsiderSEALSQ Unveils VaultIC409 Secure Element for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES) (“SEALSQ” or “Company”), a company that focuses on developing and selling Semiconductors, PKI, and Post-Quantum technology hardware and software products, today un...
ThequantuminsiderIn Step Toward Quantum Networking, Penn Study Finds Quantum Light Pattern Can Survive Loss of Entanglement
Insider Brief University of Pennsylvania researchers have used a photonic chip to transfer a winding pattern in quantum light that survived noise even after entanglement disappeared, which they say could help develop quantum networks. Currently, scie...
ThequantuminsiderIonQ Agrees to Buy Elisity in Cybersecurity Deal Worth Up to $1.3 Billion
Insider Brief IonQ has agreed to buy cybersecurity company Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion, expanding its security business as advances in quantum computing and artificial intelligence raise concerns about cyberattacks. The tran...
ThequantuminsiderRensselaer Polytechnic Institute Names James Misewich Quantum Computing Constellation Chair
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) today announced the appointment of James Misewich, Ph.D., as the Curtis R. Priem Quantum Computing Constellation Chair, effective January 1, 2027. A nationally recognized lead...
ThequantuminsiderQuantum Meet Quantum: Hybrid Quantum Computer Lets Scientists Peak in on Foundational Quantum Effect
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Physicists in the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, have used a hybrid quantum computer, formed by qubits and quantum oscillators, to observe the Aharonov-Bohm effect in a quantum simulation. The effect ...
ThequantuminsiderCorey O’Meara (E.ON): Finding Real Quantum Advantage in Grid Optimization
Yuval Boger interviews Corey O’Meara, Chief Quantum Scientist at E.ON Digital Technology. They discuss how E.ON’s five-person quantum team works with business units to find high-value use cases, especially where classical methods may hit bottle...
ThequantuminsiderTuning a Quantum Computer: What a Violin Teaches us About Qubit Calibration
Insider brief Before a violinist plays a note, they tune. Each string is tightened or loosened until it sounds exactly right, and even then, temperature and humidity will pull it out of tune again before long. Quantum computers have the same problem,...
ThequantuminsiderGuest Post: Quantum Computing’s Transistor Moment
A new paper demonstrating Grover’s search on a room-temperature diamond processor may echo the transistor’s takeover from vacuum tubes – and raises questions about how much vacuum-dependent quantum hardware survives the same transition. G...
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cachedPodcast with Klea Dhimitri of Hamamtsu Photonics
Klea Dhmitri of Hamamatsu joins Yuval to discuss the company’s role as a photonic component provider for trapped-ion and neutral-atom quantum computers. She explains key technologies such as photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), SPADs, and quantitative CMOS ...
cacheSurveying the California Quantum Ecosystem
By Doug Finke I attended the third convening of a Quantum California event last week at the University of California, San Diego. Two previous convenings were held: one at the University of California, Berkeley in November 2025 and the other at the Un...
cacheEmmanuel Macron Announces an Additional €1 Billion ($1.16B USD) in Funding for France’s Quantum Plan
French President Emmanuel Macron announced an additional funding of €1 Billion ($1.16B USD) for the country's Quantum Plan. The Quantum Plan was original funded at €1.8 billion for the period 2021-2025 and then supplemented in 2024 by €500 million fr...
cacheXanadu Establishes a Synthetic At-the-Market Equity Facility to Raise up to $300 Million
Xanadu Quantum Technologies (Nasdaq/TSX: XNDU) has established a synthetic at-the-market equity facility allowing the company to raise via private placements up to $300 million over the next three years in Class B subordinate voting shares. Partnerin...
cacheEPB and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Launch $6.8 Million Quantum Workforce Initiative
The Board of Directors for EPB has approved a formal resolution establishing a $6.8 million USD joint funding partnership with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). The matching investment allocates $850,000 annually from each institution...
cacheFlatiron Institute Tensor Network Algorithm Overturns Historical D-Wave Quantum Supremacy Claim
Physicists at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute, in collaboration with Boston University, have developed a classical algorithm that successfully simulates complex three-dimensional quantu...
cacheAlice & Bob Secures NVentures Backing and Backs Expanded €1 Billion French Plan Quantique
Alice & Bob has secured a strategic venture capital investment from NVentures, the private equity arm of NVIDIA Corporation, expanding its existing €100 million ($116 million USD) Series B funding round. The investment follows a public policy mil...
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