The Quantum Observer

Classiq Technologies and Israel Natural Gas Lines (INGL) have published research on using hybrid quantum-classical optimization for natural gas pipeline networks. Their study, detailed on arXiv (arXiv:2609.00825), demonstrates a Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) workflow to maximize gas throughput, validated on the IonQ Forte-1 quantum computer.

CGI and D-Wave have partnered to bring quantum optimization solutions to enterprises, integrating D-Wave’s quantum hardware into CGI’s IT services. This collaboration aims to develop quantum-powered applications for complex challenges in transportation, logistics, and retail, leveraging CGI’s global reach and D-Wave’s annealing quantum technology. The initiative focuses on moving clients from proof-of-concept to full production deployment of hybrid quantum-classical solutions.

A global study conducted by various international quantum industry consortia found that 90% of quantum companies rely on cross-border supply chains for hardware and software, with 74% serving international customers. The report, based on data from 160 quantum enterprises across 15 countries, highlights the interconnectedness of the global quantum economy and the challenges this poses for national protectionist trade policies.

An independent benchmark on IBM Heron hardware evaluated commercial quantum error management tools. Q-CTRL and Qedma QESEM significantly reduced errors compared to IBM’s native Qiskit Runtime, with Qedma achieving the highest precision at a higher QPU time cost, while Q-CTRL offered a balance of error reduction and runtime. The study highlights varying resource-accuracy profiles among the tested solutions.

Q-CTRL has successfully executed the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) on up to 100 qubits using a novel Convolutional Compilation Strategy, demonstrating the largest functional QFT on quantum hardware to date. This method eliminates routing overhead on linear nearest-neighbor topologies by leveraging identity cancellations and incorporating an ancilla qubit, resulting in a compact, translation-invariant kernel.

The German government has selected a QUDORA-led consortium for the €122 million NFQC-1k project to build a fault-tolerant trapped-ion quantum computer with at least 1,000 physical qubits. This five-year initiative aims to establish a semiconductor pilot line for high-performance quantum processing units and is a key milestone under Germany’s High-Tech Agenda Deutschland, targeting the deployment of advanced quantum computers by 2030.

IonQ’s Superion 256 quantum computer will be the first on-premise QPU at NVIDIA’s Accelerated Quantum Research Center, integrating with NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL72 accelerated computing rack via NVQLink. This collaboration aims to advance quantum-GPU architectures and hybrid software frameworks for applications in finance, materials science, and drug discovery, utilizing IonQ’s EQC technology for scalable quantum computing.

Photonic Inc. and Microsoft are collaborating to integrate Photonic’s distributed quantum computing models and QLDPC error correction algorithms into Microsoft’s Quantum Resource Estimator. This partnership aims to provide researchers and developers with a more accurate way to model quantum algorithms for modular, multi-chip quantum computing systems, addressing limitations of current monolithic frameworks.

Scientists have shown that the two exponents (inelastic scattering exponent and dephasing exponent) commonly used to describe electron scattering in graphene do not necessarily follow the same behavior. Using gated epitaxial graphene, a multi-institutional team of researchers independently extracted the two exponents through current-heating measurements and weak-localization analysis.

Take a second and turn it into trillions of moments. Measure each one. That’s how precisely an atomic clock at Singapore’s Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) keeps time—and with record-setting accuracy, according to results published in Nature on Sept. 23. Click to rate this post! You have already voted for this article (Visited 3 times, 1 visits today) phys