Weekly Quantum Commentary and Highlighted News | Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Do you believe in magic (states) in a quantum researcher's heart? (Paraphrasing The Lovin' Spoonful a bit.) The almost final word on all these links.
Today’s Brief Commentary
It’s early August as I write this, and I’ve mostly been trying to take a few days off from my computer. Since Saturday, my brother-in-law and I have been replacing a wooden porch floor, and we’re almost done. There are always surprises when you do anything to an old house, but we didn’t find anything too bad. There are a few more odds and ends for which I need materials, but I should wrap up the work by the end of next week.
When I have ventured toward my desktop, it was to finish up the work on the quantum news aggregator I built. To be clear, I coded this for myself because I was tired of looking here, there, and everywhere for the latest news. I’ve provided information below on how you can get the output of this either daily or as a frequently updated collection of recent press releases, news, announcements, and newsletters from the last 10 days. I hope that by publishing these, you can either read the commentary and explore the small curated list of links in this newsletter or gain a broader view of what people are announcing in the aggregated listings. Or do both!
A few observations:
More of you should provide RSS feeds for your news and blogs (yes, I’ve said that before).
Many of your pretty websites look good, but have horrible non-semantically structured HTML underneath. You need to have a good talk with your designer next time you redo things. I saw one site where the browser display was about two screens worth, but the HTML was 35,000 lines long.
I favor press releases and blog entries from companies and organizations themselves on their websites, though the wire services are fine.
If you don’t have a reason to issue a press release, write a blog post at least once a month.
If you don’t have a reason to issue a press release, don’t issue a content-light, fabricated release. They are obvious.
I’ll occasionally make you aware of the aggregated news, but that’s it on the creation of the listings.
Today’s thought: I’ve been thinking a lot about the increasing number of announced partnerships and sovereign quantum efforts. More on those next week.
In addition to the curated list of links below, you can get more comprehensive collections of links in two ways:
Daily Quantum Links on Substack: Subscribe for free to get a list of the most recent press releases, news, announcements, and newsletters published during the last two news days. I recommend this. You can also view them on Substack.
Extended List: Recent Press Releases, News, Announcements, and Newsletters: All the recent links published over the last 10 days.
Also, check out and bookmark our sortable list of upcoming quantum technology conferences.
Words and phrases below that may step over the line for normal marketing copy, are grandiose, overused, or cause you to wonder if something is really that special, are highlighted thusly.
Financial Dealings and Earnings Announcements
Israeli startup targets million qubits in one cryostat
https://fundstech.com/israeli-startup-targets-million-qubits-in-one-cryostat/
Author: Piyasi Mitra
Date: Monday, August 4, 2025
Companies, Universities, and Organizations Mentioned: QuamCore
Commentary: Congratulations to QuamCore in getting the $26 million on their series A funding. One million qubits, in one or more cryostats or QPUs, have been promised for years and is now a quantum tech cliché. IBM has said how they will get to that number, and others have waved their hands about getting through the Quantum Miracle Zone. Don't mention that as a goal unless you give significant details about how you will get there. Okay, I'm not really really picking on QuamCore, and congrats again on the cash.
Podcasts, Videocasts, and Online Seminars
Using quantum computing for the simulation of butyronitrile dissociation
https://meetiqm.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hpcEY-8HS_aQtLPLnUtcNg#/registration
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Companies, Universities, and Organizations Mentioned: IQM Quantum Computers Oy, Kvantify
Excerpt: Join us for an upcoming webinar titled “Using Quantum Computing for the Simulation of Butyronitrile Dissociation hosted by IQM and Kvantify. This session will explore how Kvantify’s Quantum Development Kit (QDK), running on IQM Resonance, enables advanced molecular simulations via the cloud. The webinar will feature insights into the co-design of quantum hardware and software, demonstrating how the QDK simplifies quantum chemistry workflows such as the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE). A demonstration of molecular modeling will illustrate practical applications in areas such as drug discovery, materials science, and catalysis. The event will take place on August 21, 2025, at 15:00 EEST/14:00 CEST. We welcome researchers, industry professionals, and anyone interested in the intersection of quantum computing and chemistry to join us.
Post-Quantum Cryptography and Security
Quantum networking technologies
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/whitepaper/quantum-networking-technologies
Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Commentary: Despite the title, this is about quantum and security. The UK is not a fan of QKD: “The NCSC will not support the use of QKD for government or military applications.”
Excerpt: In this paper, we provide an updated analysis of QKD as a security technology, and the development of QRNGs. We also consider the future of quantum networking technologies.
Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance | Technical
QuEra, Harvard and MIT Researchers Demonstrate Logical-Level Magic State Distillation on a Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer
Date: Monday, July 14, 2025
Companies, Universities, and Organizations Mentioned: Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, QuEra Computing
Commentary: Magic states are an important aspect of quantum error correction, and we've been hearing more about them recently.
Excerpt: A team of scientists from QuEra Computing, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has reported the first experimental demonstration of magic state distillation carried out entirely on logical qubits. The study, “Experimental Demonstration of Logical Magic State Distillation,” is now available as Accelerated Article Preview on the Nature website at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09367-3.
Relay-BP: The world’s fastest, most accurate decoder for qLDPC error correction codes
https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/relay-bp-error-correction-decoder
Author: Leanne Cherry
Date: Monday, August 4, 2025
Companies, Universities, and Organizations Mentioned: IBM
Excerpt: After months of collaboration—and one happy accident—a team of IBM® researchers has devised the fastest, most accurate decoding algorithm for quantum LDPC code error correction in existence.
Alice & Bob and Inria Improve Efficiency of Magic State Preparation to Enable Useful Quantum Computing
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Companies, Universities, and Organizations Mentioned: Alice & Bob
Commentary: The QuEra et al paper above is about neutral atom qubits; this is about superconducting qubits. Careful readers will note that this press release is about the submission of the paper to a peer-reviewed journal, not the actual “publication in a journal such as Nature.
Excerpt: Scientists from Alice & Bob, a global leader in the race for fault-tolerant quantum computing, and Inria, France’s national institute for research in digital science and technology, have submitted a new study for peer review illustrating the most hardware-efficient method to date for producing magic states on superconducting quantum computers, a critical step toward realizing practical quantum computation.
Sutor Group Market Landscape Reports
The latest Sutor Group Intelligence Reports on quantum processing units and quantum software are now available.
Each report includes a taxonomy of quantum computing hardware and software, company data, geographic distribution, investors, recent news, years founded, and a glossary. The geographic charts provide a breakdown by country, 8 world region designators, and breakdowns by U.S. states, Canadian provinces, French regions, German states, and UK cities.
SGIA-QPML-20250708 Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) Market Landscape
We examine the companies worldwide now building processors, their implementation modalities, and their programming model paradigms. If published by the vendors, we provide links to their product road maps.
By the Numbers: 83 companies, 21 countries, 10 modalities, 3 paradigms, 364 investors and funders, and 17 pages of links to recent news by vendor.
SGIA-SWML-20250708 Quantum Computing Software Market Landscape
We examine the vendors and service providers worldwide now developing quantum computing software, including applications, for use by their customers or themselves.
By the Numbers: 126 companies, 24 countries, 19 types of software, 16 software application types, 513 investors and funders, and 23 pages of links to recent news by vendor.
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