Post-Quantum Cryptography Intelligence Archive
Historical analysis of quantum computing developments and PQC standards
47 Articles AnalyzedPost-Quantum Cryptography Report
2026-07-12MIT and IBM Project Quantum Unity Operators into Language Model Latent Spaces for Multimodal Circuit Synthesis
Researchers from the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab and IBM Quantum have developed a multimodal alignment framework that maps quantum unitary operators directly into the latent space of a large language model (LLM). Published as an IEEE QCE 2026 conf...
QuantumcomputingreportETH Zurich Combines Superconducting Qubits with Mechanical Resonators to Build Vibrating Quantum RAM
Researchers at ETH Zurich have engineered a hardware architecture for quantum computers that separates processing from working memory by utilizing mechanical vibrations instead of electromagnetic fields. Published in Science ("Mechanical resonator–ba...
QuantumcomputingreportGoogle and Fraunhofer Launch Global Calls for Early Fault-Tolerant Algorithms and Enterprise Use Cases
International research networks and academic sponsors have opened competitive application windows targeting immediate software optimizations for early fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) platforms and industry-specific classical-to-quantum worklo...
QuantumcomputingreportWho’s News: Strategic Appointments at Photonic, Aliro Quantum, Florida Atlantic University, QuSecure, Quantum Elements, and QAI Ventures
Photonic Inc. has appointed Orlagh Neary as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Briony Shipman as Vice President, Global Government Affairs. Neary joins from Microsoft, where she recently served as General Manager of Microsoft Quantum and AI Ecosystem ...
QuantumcomputingreportEeroQ Validates CMOS-Controlled Electron Shuttling on Superfluid Helium for All-to-All Qubit Routing
Schematic rendering of EeroQ’s Wonder Lake chip stack. Quantum hardware developer EeroQ has published peer-reviewed experimental results demonstrating the selective, two-dimensional transport of electrons on superfluid helium using a commercial silic...
QuantumcomputingreportGoogle Research Stabilizes “Willow” Quantum Processor Using Continuous Reinforcement Learning Control Layers
Overview of RL control. Google Quantum AI has introduced a hardware-control framework that unifies real-time calibration with active quantum error correction (QEC), allowing an autonomous reinforcement learning (RL) agent to stabilize logical qubits ...
QuantumcomputingreportNordLocker Deploys “Project Renaissance” Architecture to Implement Atomic-Journaling Encrypted Cloud Platform
Zero-knowledge data security provider NordLocker has launched a structural overhaul of its primary private storage architecture, transitioning from a rigid, locker-centric file system to a decentralized, append-only journaling engine. Codenamed "Proj...
QuantumcomputingreportQC Design Publishes Unified “Plaquette” Framework to Automate Hardware-Aware Fault-Tolerant Simulation
Quantum design-automation developer QC Design has published a comprehensive theoretical framework and software specification detailing its flagship architecture-simulation platform, Plaquette. Released in an academic paper on arXiv ("Plaquette: A har...
QuantumcomputingreportSEALSQ and Quobly Execute $5M Commercial Accord to Embed Post-Quantum Cryptography in Silicon Quantum Processors
Post-quantum semiconductor developer SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES) has signed a $5 million commercial agreement with French silicon-based quantum hardware pioneer Quobly. The contract signals the deployment phase of a technology partnership initiated in...
QuantumcomputingreportBTQ Technologies and ICTK Finalize Architecture for Next-Generation Post-Quantum Security Chip
Global quantum-safe engineering firm BTQ Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: BTQ) has finalized the technical design phase for its next-generation hybrid security processor. Developed in direct cooperation with South Korean secure-element pioneer ICTK Co., L...
QuantumcomputingreportClassiq 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...
AwsAmazon Braket launches Rigetti Cepheus™-1-108Q superconducting device
This post was contributed to by Zia Mohammad, Scott Smart, Yuvraj Mohan, Mike Piech, and Rebecca Malamud Figure 1: A Rigetti quantum processing unit (QPU) inside a dilution refrigerator. Photo by Drew Bird. Amazon Braket enables customers to design a...
AwsDecoding Realistic Quantum Error Syndrome with Quantum Elements Digital Twins
Fault-tolerant quantum computing requires quantum error correction (QEC): Encoding one logical qubit into many physical qubits so that, below a threshold error rate, the logical error rate falls rapidly as the code grows. The practical engineering qu...
AwsError mitigation on Amazon Braket with program sets and Mitiq
To get the most out of today’s noisy quantum computers, quantum computational experiments commonly utilize quantum error mitigation (QEM) techniques. These methods include discarding known noisy results (post selection), modifying underlying pulse se...
AwsGetting the Most from Your Quantum Measurements: Adaptive Shot Allocation on Amazon Braket
With current noisy quantum hardware, every quantum circuit evaluation is precious. Variational quantum algorithms like the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) require repeated estimation of expectation values of quantum observables—each requiring m...
AwsBuilding advanced quantum chemistry calculations with Kvantify Qrunch on Amazon Braket
Quantum computing promises breakthroughs in chemistry simulations. However, building scalable calculations on today’s noisy quantum hardware remains challenging. This blog introduces Kvantify Qrunch software on Amazon Braket. It enables advanced chem...
AwsQiskit-Braket provider v0.11: New Primitives and Flexible Circuit Compilation
We recently released v0.11 of the Qiskit-Braket provider, which brings more Qiskit features to Amazon Braket users, improves access to Braket backends through Qiskit, and also enables compilation on the Braket SDK or with OpenQASM Programs. With v0.1...
AwsQuantum-Guided Cluster Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization
This post was contributed by Peter Eder, Aron Kerschbaumer, Jernej Rudi Finžgar, Raimel Medina, Martin Schuetz, Helmut Katzgraber, Sarah Braun, and Christian Mendl. Optimizing complex systems is a major challenge in science and industry. Many tasks –...
AwsVerifiable 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...
NistReflections from the Second NIST Cyber AI Profile Workshop
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Artificial Intelligence (Cyber AI Profile) Workshop in January! The input we received on the Preliminary Draft during this workshop has been invaluable and is informing...
NistAll aboard: the NIST Cybersecurity for IoT Program is headed to our next stop! Share your input on where we’re headed during our Future Directions Two-Day Workshop on March 31st.
Workshop Details… We’re looking forward to hearing from the community during our “Future Directions” Workshop! Date: March 31 - April 1, 2026 Where: NIST’s Gaithersburg campus! Registration and Details: HERE Can’t make it? We still want to hear from ...
NistCelebrating Two Years of CSF 2.0!
Celebrate this milestone with us! Email us at csf [at] nist.gov (csf[at]nist[dot]gov) or tag @NISTcyber on X telling us what your favorite CSF 2.0 resource is (or how your organization has benefitted from implementing the CSF 2.0). Today marks two ye...
NistCelebrating Data Privacy Week with NIST’s Privacy Engineering Program
Grab your party hats – it’s Data Privacy Week! Data Privacy Week is a global initiative led by the National Cybersecurity Alliance to spread awareness about online privacy and empower individuals and businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data, and...
NistDigital Identities: Getting to Know the Verifiable Digital Credential Ecosystem
Understanding mDL credential formats Standards in the VDC Ecosystem In our first blog post in this series, we highlighted that VDCs can represent a wide range of credentials, from a driver’s license to a diploma to proof of age. The ability to use VD...
NistA NICE Retrospective on Shaping Cybersecurity’s Future
Rodney Petersen has served as the Director of NICE at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) for the past eleven years where his focus has been on advancing cybersecurity education and workforce development. He will be retiring fr...
NistWhy Quantum Computing Needs Strong Ecosystems to Scale
Guest Post by Yonathan Cohen, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Quantum Machines. Something is changing in the quantum industry. Not long ago, most conversations focused almost entirely on qubits: fidelities, coherence times, error rates, an...
ThequantuminsiderTop Diamond NV-Centre Quantum Computing Companies in 2026
Insider Brief Most quantum computing discussions start with superconducting chips in dilution refrigerators, or ion traps in vacuum chambers the size of a washing machine. Diamond NV centers are a different story. The qubit is a defect in a carbon cr...
ThequantuminsiderQC Design Publishes Plaquette Framework for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer Design
Insider Brief Press release – QC Design today announced the publication of “Plaquette: A hardware-aware design platform for fault-tolerant quantum computers”, the paper presenting the theoretical framework and software suite behind its flagship...
ThequantuminsiderNordLocker Prepares Encrypted Cloud Storage for the Post-Quantum Era
Insider Brief Press release –  NordLocker, the encrypted cloud storage service behind the creators of Nord Security, has announced the most significant architectural upgrade in its history. Codenamed “Project Renaissance,” the upgrade comp...
ThequantuminsiderBTQ Technologies and ICTK Complete Design of Quantum-Secure QCIM Security Chip
Insider Brief Press release – BTQ Technologies Corp. (“BTQ“ or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: BTQ) (CBOE CA: BTQ), a global quantum technology company focused on securing mission-critical networks, today announced that it has c...
ThequantuminsiderSEALSQ and Quobly Sign $5 Million Agreement to Secure Silicon Quantum Computers
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, and Quob...
ThequantuminsiderGoogle Study Shows Quantum Computer Can Learn From Its Own Errors While It Computes
Insider Brief A Google-led research team has demonstrated a quantum computer that continuously learns from its own errors while it is running, replacing one of the biggest operational bottlenecks in quantum computing with an artificial intelligence s...
ThequantuminsiderGoogle Seeks University Proposals for Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Insider Brief Google is seeking university researchers to help solve two of quantum computing’s most immediate challenges, launching academic funding calls focused on developing useful algorithms for early fault-tolerant quantum computers and s...
ThequantuminsiderQuTech Releases Tuna-17 Superconducting Quantum Computer Through Quantum Inspire
Insider Brief Press release – QuTech, in collaboration with the Delft quantum technology ecosystem, has released Tuna-17: a new open-architecture superconducting quantum computer designed to advance Europe’s publicly accessible quantum computin...
ThequantuminsiderApplication Period Open: Fraunhofer Seeks Industry Partners for Quantum Computing Use Cases
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — INQUBATOR, Fraunhofer’s quantum computing consulting and testing center, offers businesses an practical and cost-effective access to quantum computing. Starting immediately, companies of all sizes can apply w...
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Post-Quantum Cryptography Report
cachedMIT and IBM Project Quantum Unity Operators into Language Model Latent Spaces for Multimodal Circuit Synthesis
Researchers from the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab and IBM Quantum have developed a multimodal alignment framework that maps quantum unitary operators directly into the latent space of a large language model (LLM). Published as an IEEE QCE 2026 conf...
cacheETH Zurich Combines Superconducting Qubits with Mechanical Resonators to Build Vibrating Quantum RAM
Researchers at ETH Zurich have engineered a hardware architecture for quantum computers that separates processing from working memory by utilizing mechanical vibrations instead of electromagnetic fields. Published in Science ("Mechanical resonator–ba...
cacheGoogle and Fraunhofer Launch Global Calls for Early Fault-Tolerant Algorithms and Enterprise Use Cases
International research networks and academic sponsors have opened competitive application windows targeting immediate software optimizations for early fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) platforms and industry-specific classical-to-quantum worklo...
cacheEeroQ Validates CMOS-Controlled Electron Shuttling on Superfluid Helium for All-to-All Qubit Routing
Schematic rendering of EeroQ’s Wonder Lake chip stack. Quantum hardware developer EeroQ has published peer-reviewed experimental results demonstrating the selective, two-dimensional transport of electrons on superfluid helium using a commercial silic...
cacheGoogle Research Stabilizes “Willow” Quantum Processor Using Continuous Reinforcement Learning Control Layers
Overview of RL control. Google Quantum AI has introduced a hardware-control framework that unifies real-time calibration with active quantum error correction (QEC), allowing an autonomous reinforcement learning (RL) agent to stabilize logical qubits ...
cacheNordLocker Deploys “Project Renaissance” Architecture to Implement Atomic-Journaling Encrypted Cloud Platform
Zero-knowledge data security provider NordLocker has launched a structural overhaul of its primary private storage architecture, transitioning from a rigid, locker-centric file system to a decentralized, append-only journaling engine. Codenamed "Proj...
cacheQC Design Publishes Unified “Plaquette” Framework to Automate Hardware-Aware Fault-Tolerant Simulation
Quantum design-automation developer QC Design has published a comprehensive theoretical framework and software specification detailing its flagship architecture-simulation platform, Plaquette. Released in an academic paper on arXiv ("Plaquette: A har...
cache7 articles analyzed - click any article to read the full source