What's new at IBM Quantum Q3 2026
IBM Quantum published its Q3 2026 quarterly update.
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IBM Quantum published its Q3 2026 quarterly update.
Quantinuum held its first InQuanto Summer School with the UK National Quantum Computing Centre, after which participants applied concepts to molecular electronic structure and state-preparation circuits.
QuEra and AWS published an article on October 6, 2026, outlining their plans for fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2028.
Classiq wrapped up its Quantum Circuit Challenge on October 6, 2026.
Researchers mapped the toric code exactly onto the two-dimensional Ising model to obtain analytic expressions for its logical failure rates.
IBM Quantum published information on Qiskit implementations in Fortran, C++, and Julia.
Waterloo IQC researchers presented a photon subtraction approach for producing quantum light.
Microsoft Quantum named winners for the Hardware Track and winners plus finalists for the Software Track in its June 2026 Quantum Pioneers Program round.
Quantinuum posted a newsroom item on the Quantum World Congress 2026.
On October 1, 2026, €47.5M was provided for QIA's next phase to build full-stack quantum networks involving Qblox.
Classiq introduced its Fault Tolerance Engine on September 30, 2026.
Infleqtion and Riverlane signed an MOU to advance quantum error correction and fault-tolerant computing in the UK.
University of Washington completed a capstone project on combating quantum noise with AWS, in association with the AWS Center for Quantum Computing.
Infleqtion announced achievement of 30 entangled logical qubits on its Sqale quantum computer.
The AWS Center for Quantum Computing demonstrated genuine multipartite non-locality on quantum processors using Amazon Braket.
Microsoft Quantum opened a quantum research center in Maryland.
Microsoft Quantum published material on scalable logical qubits for quantum computing.
Waterloo IQC faculty member Adam Wei Tsen was named Endowed Chair in Nanotechnology.
A journal article reports improved error correction using leakage reduction units integrated into qubit measurement in a superconducting quantum processor.
Quantinuum published a guide on selecting quantum computing solutions.
Q-CTRL published a technical blog on September 18, 2026, titled "Making quantum computer calibration autonomous, informative, and easy.
Microsoft Quantum published material on exploring hidden patterns in high-dimensional data using the Quantum Development Kit for analytics.
Quantum Motion implemented a streaming cryogenic quantum error correction decoder on commercial FPGAs.
IBM Quantum reported that multiple error-correction methods support practical quantum computations evaluated by executable circuits rather than logical qubit counts.
IBM Quantum published a theoretical separation between quantum computers and large language models.
Quantinuum will present its quantum hardware, software and partnerships at IEEE Quantum Week 2026.
Qedma, BlueQubit and RIKEN published a paper on quantum magnetism whose results exceed those of the classical methods examined and were checked on Quantinuum’s Helios and H2 systems.
Quantinuum announced Helix, an architecture for enterprise-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Quantinuum published a newsroom article on criteria for a computer to qualify as quantum.
Sandia National Laboratories, collaborating with Quantinuum and NVIDIA, unveiled QUOPS as a standardized way to gauge quantum system performance regardless of the underlying design.
Iceberg Quantum and Diraq confirmed Pinnacle’s logical advantage for spin qubits using NVIDIA CUDA-Q Logical.
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Qblox and Riverlane closed a full real-time quantum error correction loop from 6.886 µs on Surface-17 to under 12 µs on Surface-161.
Q-CTRL issued a digest on Monte Carlo integration for finance on quantum computers dated September 11, 2026.
Lockheed Martin and IBM are launching a quantum innovation hub at ETH Zurich.
SandboxAQ completed a flight test of AQNav quantum navigation technology on Northrop Grumman’s Lumberjack attritable unmanned aircraft system.
Quantinuum filed an 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Quantinuum published a roadmap for quantum maturity.