Bosonic quantum error correction in superconducting circuits has so far used fixed-frequency transmon qubits to control 3D microwave cavities, with logical lifetimes constrained by transmon bit-flip errors. A new arXiv work turns to fluxonium qubits as the control element for bosonic error correction, moving away from that transmon limitation.
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If fluxonium suppresses the transmon bit-flip errors that have capped bosonic code lifetimes, existing superconducting bosonic QEC setups could extend logical lifetimes and approach error-correction break-even within the next two years.
Germany's Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) selected a QUDORA-led consortium of seven research and industry partners for the NFQC-1k project, funded at €122 million. The consortium is tasked with building what the announcement describes as one of Europe's most advanced quantum computers.
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Within the next two years, this could place a German-built superconducting prototype in the hands of European algorithm developers, giving them a testbed for error mitigation and hybrid quantum-classical workloads that does not depend on US cloud access.
Oxford Quantum Circuits, Citi, and the UK's National Quantum Computing Centre completed a joint study on Quantum-compressed Physics-Informed Neural Networks (QPINNs) for pricing financial derivatives. The evaluation found that QPINNs could reduce model complexity while preserving pricing accuracy. The work targeted workflows relevant to Citi's derivatives business.
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Within two years, Citi could begin piloting QPINN-based pricing models on OQC's superconducting hardware for internal risk analytics on complex derivatives, if the compression technique scales beyond the study's test cases.
A preprint describes a convolutional neural network method to detect real-time charge jumps in superconducting qubits caused by cosmic-ray or gamma ionizing radiation. The authors frame these jumps as sources of correlated errors that complicate fault-tolerant quantum computing, while also carrying a detection signature useful for quantum sensing. The abstract notes that current detection methods have limitations but does not detail performance benchmarks in the excerpt.
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If integrated into low-latency readout, this CNN could enable superconducting quantum error-correction experiments to flag charge-jump events as they occur and discard or re-run corrupted shots, reducing correlated logical error bursts before full radiation shielding is deployed.
IQM Quantum Computers has signed a purchase agreement with Brazil's Eldorado Research Institute to install an IQM Spark superconducting quantum computer in Campinas. The deal marks IQM's first quantum computer deployment in South America and its entry into the region.
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The on-premises IQM Spark could become a local hands-on testbed for superconducting quantum education and small-scale algorithm prototyping in Brazil, reducing dependence on remote cloud access to overseas machines.
Oxford Quantum Circuits has released Erado, an open-source Qiskit simulator for erasure noise and post-selection, available through its QCaaS SDK. The tool lets researchers model erasure-aware noise and evaluate quantum error mitigation techniques. Accompanying research indicates post-selection can fully mitigate erasure noise when error rates are below 3.0%.
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OQC could use Erado-derived erasure models to add erasure-aware post-selection to its superconducting QCaaS platform within two years, letting users salvage shots that would otherwise be discarded.
IQM has agreed to supply an on-premises IQM Spark quantum computer to Brazil's Eldorado Research Institute, with installation planned for the first quarter of 2027. The deal is described as the first purchase of a quantum computer by a private research institution in Brazil and includes cloud access to IQM's European 54-qubit system.
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This could seed a self-sustaining Brazilian quantum research ecosystem by giving universities and private labs recurring local access to superconducting hardware without depending solely on remote cloud queues.
IQM Quantum Computers will deploy an IQM Spark quantum computer at the Eldorado Research Institute’s Campinas headquarters in 2027. The installation is expected to be Brazil’s first quantum computer from IQM. The system will be hosted on-site at the institute.
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An on-premises IQM Spark in Campinas could let Eldorado and nearby universities move beyond cloud-only access to direct pulse-level control and calibration experiments on a superconducting device.
IQM Quantum Computers will deliver a 54-qubit superconducting quantum computer to Brazil's Eldorado Institute in 2027. The deployment marks IQM's first quantum system in South America. The announcement was reported by Quantum Zeitgeist on 17 September 2026.
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Once installed in 2027, the system could give Brazilian researchers and startups their first direct, low-latency access to superconducting hardware, seeding a regional quantum software and workforce programme.
IBM researchers demonstrated a hybrid approach that pairs quantum error detection with statistical error mitigation, reducing the number of samples needed by a factor of 63 on superconducting hardware. The work indicates that error correction and mitigation may be complementary rather than sequential replacements.
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Within two years, this hybrid method could reduce sampling overhead enough to make small-scale chemistry or optimization workloads routinely feasible on existing superconducting processors.
A numerical study shows that a fixed, input-independent pulse sequence can be compiled for an interacting transmon circuit to enact a local recovery rule. In a simulated four-qubit repetition-code ring, this open-loop control slows the decay of encoded information without syndrome measurement or conditional feedback.
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Experimental groups could demonstrate a measurement-free repetition-code recovery cycle on existing multi-qubit transmon devices without fast conditional feedback within the next two years.
Quantum Elements and USC announced a Nature Communications paper reporting that the surface code can strengthen error protection on IBM Heron processors even when the chip's native qubit connectivity does not naturally match the code's standard layout. The work demonstrates scaling of surface code error correction on deployed superconducting hardware.
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If the demonstrated surface-code scaling holds at larger code distances, existing IBM Heron-class processors could host early logical qubits within two years without needing hardware redesigned around the code's native layout.
NVIDIA released CUDA-Q Logical, an open-source extension to its CUDA-Q platform aimed at fault-tolerant quantum computing. The framework brings together high-level algorithm design, quantum error correction code selection, and QPU microarchitecture choices in one toolchain. NVIDIA also published a research paper describing how the approach can produce full-stack resource estimates for fault-tolerant quantum applications.
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CUDA-Q Logical could become a shared resource-estimation layer that lets hardware teams compare fault-tolerant overheads across superconducting, trapped-ion, and neutral-atom systems before committing to a specific error-correction code or architecture.
IQM Quantum Computers will deploy LUMI-IQ, a superconducting quantum computer designed to support logical qubits, at CSC's Kajaani, Finland data center. The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is co-funding the system, which will be integrated into the LUMI AI Factory as a hybrid HPC-AI-quantum platform. Delivery is planned in three phases through 2029, beginning with 150 physical qubits.
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European researchers could begin co-scheduling quantum and classical HPC jobs within the existing LUMI environment in the next two years, testing hybrid algorithms before the full logical-qubit system is complete.
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have reported a method using quantum lattice gates to perform bosonic quantum operations in a single Floquet driving period, replacing many repeated cycles. The technique accelerates these operations by up to 1,000 times and is aimed at making bosonic quantum error correction faster and more robust.
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Within two years, this could let superconducting bosonic qubits run enough error-correction cycles per coherence time to demonstrate improved logical qubit lifetimes on small codes.
SuperQ Quantum Computing is developing a modular hybrid computer called Super Nova. Hardware for the processor is being built in the laboratory of Professor Matteo Mariantoni at the University of Waterloo.
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Within two years, SuperQ could use the Waterloo-built Super Nova to demonstrate multi-module operation of separately fabricated superconducting qubit packages connected through a shared quantum bus, offering an early testbed for modular fault-tolerant architectures.
A preprint on arXiv proposes using dual-unitary circuits in a brickwork arrangement as the reservoir layer for quantum reservoir computing. The authors argue the architecture is compatible with noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, and they explore its use for encoding and processing information.
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Dual-unitary QRC could become a standard numerical and experimental benchmark for quantum reservoir computing within two years.
Qedma Quantum Computing and the HQC² research consortium applied their QESEM software error-mitigation layer to IBM's Aachen superconducting quantum processor. The method reduced energy estimation errors for a water molecule's potential energy surface in quantum chemistry calculations by 30–50 times. The demonstration began from an error of roughly 500 mHa.
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If the error reduction generalizes beyond the water benchmark, QESEM could be integrated into existing cloud-based quantum chemistry workflows on superconducting hardware, making small-molecule energy estimates accurate enough to support hybrid classical-quantum calculations within two years.
Rigetti Computing announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Rigetti & Co, LLC, has signed a definitive agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce for $100 million in CHIPS Research and Development funding. The award is intended to accelerate Rigetti's superconducting quantum computing R&D.
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The funding could accelerate Rigetti's move from single-chip superconducting processors to modular multi-chip systems within the next two years.
Rigetti has been awarded $100 million by the U.S. government. The funding is intended for research and development in superconducting quantum computing. The work will target key challenges in scaling these systems.
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The award could let Rigetti prototype a larger modular multi-chip superconducting processor within two years by funding work on packaging, wiring, and control bottlenecks that currently limit qubit counts.