Post-Quantum Cryptography Intelligence Archive
Historical analysis of quantum computing developments and PQC standards
47 Articles AnalyzedPost-Quantum Cryptography Report
2026-05-30Who’s News: Strategic Leadership Appointments at Quandela, Zapata Quantum, Imperagen, and EigenQ
Quandela has announced a major restructuring of its executive leadership and governance to drive the international scale-up of its photonic quantum computing hardware. Cyril Dujardin, an executive with 25 years of deep tech and cybersecurity experien...
QuantumcomputingreportPramatra Space Secures Pre-Seed Capital to Advance Space-Based Quantum Key Distribution Hardware
Pramatra Space Technology Pvt. Ltd., a deep-tech quantum security venture based in Bengaluru, has closed an undisclosed pre-seed financing round led by Seafund Ventures. The investment round included participation from Rebalance, Magnivia Ventures (c...
QuantumcomputingreportRigetti Simulates Plasma Wave Dispersion on Superconducting Ankaa-3 Processor Using Specialized Error Mitigation
An electromagnetic wave packet propagating (a) in free space, (b) from free space to a sharp jump in plasma density (which mimics the edge of a confined overdense plasma), and (c) through an inhomogeneous plasma with a spatially varying density profi...
QuantumcomputingreportQuantum Machines Achieves 99.5% Two-Qubit Gate Fidelity Operating Rigetti’s Novera QPU
Quantum Machines (QM) has operated Rigetti Computing’s commercially available Novera superconducting quantum processing unit (QPU) using external control hardware and software, reaching a 99.5% median two-qubit gate fidelity. Configured via the OPX10...
QuantumcomputingreportUK Quantum Biomedical Hub Secures £902,000 ($1.2 Million USD) Allocation to Develop Clinical Sensing and Imaging Hardware
The UK National Quantum Biomedical Research Hub (Q-BIOMED) has been awarded £902,000 ($1.2 million USD) from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Delivered through the government's Accelerating Capability Fund—a flexible fi...
QuantumcomputingreportUniversity of Tennessee Launches Knoxville Quantum Accelerator to Anchor State Initiative
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT) has launched the Knoxville Quantum Accelerator, branded as K-Quantum, to coordinate regional quantum technology research, hardware validation, and workforce training. The initiative operates in alignment wi...
QuantumcomputingreportMoth Launches Quantum Backrooms, a Quantum Game for Consumers
In a sector traditionally dominated by deep-tech milestones and hardware-centric announcements, London-based quantum software startup Moth has broken rank to launch Quantum Backrooms, the world’s first consumer product powered by live quantum hardwar...
QuantumcomputingreportSEALSQ Deepens Strategic Commitment to EeroQ with Additional Investment and Lead Investor Role
SEALSQ Corp, a global developer of semiconductors, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and post-quantum cybersecurity technologies, has announced a significant expansion of its partnership with EeroQ. SEALSQ has executed a new investment agreement and w...
QuantumcomputingreportInfleqtion Establishes UK Quantum Innovation Centre and Manufacturing Hub in Oxford
Infleqtion (NYSE: INFQ) has announced the expansion of its UK operations through the launch of a new Quantum Innovation Centre at Oxford Technology Park. The facility triples the company’s localized research, production, and systems integration footp...
QuantumcomputingreportIndian Institute of Science Establishes Wadhwani Innovation Centre to Accelerate Deep-Tech and Quantum Commercialization
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru has inaugurated the Wadhwani-IISc Innovation Centre to expand its infrastructure for deep-tech research translation and startup incubation. Launched on May 22, 2026, the center is an operational bra...
QuantumcomputingreportDecoding 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 –...
AwsReservoir computing on an analog Rydberg-atom quantum computer
This post shows how quantum reservoir computing (QRC) can tackle machine learning challenges using Rydberg-atom quantum computers. Readers will learn how QRC works, see its performance on image classification and time series prediction tasks, and und...
AwsAWS re:Invent 2025: Your Complete Guide to Quantum Computing Sessions
AWS re:Invent 2025 returns to Las Vegas from December 1 to 5, bringing together builders, researchers, and business leaders who are exploring what is next in advanced computing on AWS. Quantum computing is moving from research labs into early real-wo...
AwsAmazon Braket Introduces Spending Limits for Quantum Processing Units
This post was contributed by Dimitar Trenev, Vivek Dwivedi, and Zia Mohammad Customers from research institutions, educational organizations, and development teams asked us for a better way to control quantum processing unit (QPU) cost while explorin...
AwsAmazon Braket launches trapped-ion quantum computer from Alpine Quantum Technologies
Amazon Braket enables customers to design and run quantum algorithms on a broad selection of quantum hardware through a unified interface. Today, we expand the hardware available on Braket by adding Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) as a new quantum ...
AwsStronger 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...
NistSharpening the Focus on Product Requirements and Cybersecurity Risks: Updating Foundational Activities for IoT Product Manufacturers
Update: The comment period for your feedback on the second public draft of NIST IR 8259 has been extended through December 10, 2025. Over the past few months, NIST has been revising and updating Foundational Activities for IoT Product Manufacturers (...
NistLet’s get Digital! Updated Digital Identity Guidelines are Here!
Today is the day! Digital Identity Guidelines, Revision 4 is finally here...it’s been an exciting journey and NIST is honored to be a part of it. What can we expect? Serving as a culmination of a nearly four-year collaborative process that included f...
NistOpen-Source Quantum Community Prepares For Sixth Annual unitaryHack
Insider Brief unitary Foundation has announced the return of unitaryHACK, its annual open-source quantum computing event, with the sixth edition scheduled to run from June 3-17, 2026. The two-week event brings together developers, researchers, studen...
ThequantuminsiderUT Launches Knoxville Quantum Accelerator To Advance Tennessee’s Future
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is launching the Knoxville Quantum Accelerator, also known as K-Quantum, to advance the region’s position as a leader in quantum technologies and systems. Unlike the digital ...
ThequantuminsiderQubic Announces Sale of Cryogenic Amplifiers to Quantum Machines
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — – Qubic, a developer of enabling hardware for quantum computing, sensing and defence, today announces it has secured a contract with its first customer for the company’s low-noise cryogenic amplifiers. That custome...
ThequantuminsiderMassachusetts Invests $25 Million in MIT Quantum Lab
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced plans for a new laboratory to accelerate the development of next-generation quantum technologies that will enable Massachusetts to rem...
ThequantuminsiderFoxconn Expects Quantum Commercialization in 2030
Insider Brief Foxconn’s quantum computing ambitions are drawing attention beyond Taiwan, but company executives say the path from research success to commercial business remains a multi-year effort. According to DigiTimes Asia, Foxconn Chairman...
ThequantuminsiderQuandela Adds Industry Veterans to Leadership And Governance Teams
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quandela, a European leader in photonic quantum computing, today announced a major reinforcement of its leadership and governance with the appointment of Cyril Dujardin as Chief Operating Officer and ...
ThequantuminsiderTop Quantum Computing Jobs and Salaries in 2026
Insider Brief Quantum computing is no longer a field that exists only in research papers. Companies are hiring, salaries are rising, and the roles themselves are becoming more defined. According to QED-C’s State of the Global Quantum Industry 2...
ThequantuminsiderEducators Named to Chattanooga/Hamilton County’s Inaugural QCaMP Cohort
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The Chattanooga Quantum Collaborative (CQC) announced today the first Chattanooga/Hamilton County-area cohort of educators participating in QCaMP (Quantum Computing, Mathematics and Physics Camp), a professional le...
ThequantuminsiderQilimanjaro Inaugurates an Analog Quantum Computer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Today, the new analog quantum computer built by Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech was inaugurated at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS), home to MareNostrum 5, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe. T...
ThequantuminsiderQuantum Computing Is Approaching Its ChatGPT Moment: New Game by Moth Proves It’s Closer than You Expected.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Moth, the London-based quantum computing company, today launches Quantum Backrooms, an open-access game and the world’s first quantum consumer product, inviting anyone and everyone to explore a virtual world genera...
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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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