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Who’s News: Strategic Appointments at SemiQon, OrangeQS, IonQ, Haiqu, and Jij
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Who’s News: Strategic Appointments at SemiQon, OrangeQS, IonQ, Haiqu, and Jij

SemiQon has appointed Dr. Thierry Botter as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Botter most recently served a five-year term as Executive Director of the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), stepping down in August 2026 after helping grow the association to over 230 members. Earlier in his career, he held advanced technology and innovation leadership roles at Airbus. At SemiQon, Botter will lead global commercialization and market expansion for the company’s cryogenically optimized CMOS hardware solutions. The full press release is available here. OrangeQS has appointed semiconductor industry veteran Raj Badoni as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Badoni brings two decades of commercial and customer-centric leadership experience across the semiconductor and photonics sectors, having previously held senior roles at KLA, ASM, Onto Innovation, and SMART Photonics. In his new position, he will oversee global sales, commercial strategy, and ecosystem collaborations—including the OrangeQS MAX Partnership Program—to scale automated quantum chip testing infrastructure. The official announcement can be found here. IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) has expanded its executive finance leadership with the appointments of Gary Merrill as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective early December, and Thomas A. Austin as Chief Accounting Officer (CAO), effective immediately, succeeding Inder M. Singh. Merrill joins from Commvault Systems, where he served as both CFO and Chief Commercial Officer, driving SaaS expansion and financial transformation. Austin brings over three decades of accounting and regulatory compliance experience, having previously served as CAO at Juniper Networks and Vice President of Corporate Finance at EMC Corporation and Dell Technologies. The complete release is accessible here. Haiqu has appointed Kortny Rolston-Duce as Head of Ecosystem Development and Marketing. Rolston-Duce brings extensive quantum industry and national laboratory experience, having previously served as

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Quantum XChange Phio TX Becomes First Post-Quantum Cryptographic Management Platform to Earn EUCC Certification
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Quantum XChange Phio TX Becomes First Post-Quantum Cryptographic Management Platform to Earn EUCC Certification

Quantum-safe network security provider Quantum XChange has received European Union Cybersecurity Certification (EUCC) for its PhioTX-V cryptographic management software (version 4.5.6). With this approval, Phio TX becomes the first post-quantum cryptography (PQC) management platform to hold both EUCC certification and U.S. Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) validation. Quantum XChange PhioTX-V v4.5.6 EUCC Certification ProfileCertification DimensionOfficial Registry SpecificationTechnical & Operational ScopeCertificate & SchemeID EUCC-3095-2026-03 under Regulation (EU) 2024/482Evaluated under CC:2022 Rev. 1 at EAL2 (Substantial assurance level).Issuing & Oversight BodiesDEKRA Testing and Certification S.A.U. (NANDO ID 3095)Overseen by Spain’s Centro Criptológico Nacional; valid Nov 10, 2026 to Nov 9, 2031.Certified ArchitectureSoftware-only virtual Key Management Entity (KME)Delivers distributed symmetric keys via ETSI GS QKD 014 and Cisco SKIP APIs.Cryptographic ProtectionMulti-PQC peer KME exchange & mutual TLSSecures Secure Application Entity (SAE) links with security support through March 16, 2029. Administered across the European Union under the Common Criteria framework, EUCC establishes standardized third-party testing requirements for information and communications technology products deployed in regulated networks. Designed as a crypto-agile overlay that separates key generation and distribution from data transport, Phio TX enables enterprises to integrate post-quantum algorithms and quantum key distribution interfaces alongside existing encryption appliances without hardware replacement. According to Quantum XChange Chief Executive Officer Eddy Zervigon and Spanish telecommunications operator Evolutio Chief Executive Officer Jacinto Cavestany, independent transatlantic validation simplifies procurement reviews and supports cross-border data sovereignty mandates for financial institutions, telecom carriers, and government agenci

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Atom Computing Finalizes $100 Million U.S. Department of Commerce R&D Award
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Atom Computing Finalizes $100 Million U.S. Department of Commerce R&D Award

Atom Computing Finalizes $100 Million U.S. Department of Commerce R&D Award Matt Swayne November 13, 2026 Industry News, Policy & National Insider Brief Atom Computing signed an agreement for up to $100 million with the U.S. Department of Commerce to accelerate development of fault-tolerant, utility-scale quantum computers. The funding will support in-house technology development, expanded engineering and testing infrastructure, and collaboration with supply chain partners. Atom Computing also advanced to Stage C of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, with potential funding of up to $300 million. PRESS RELEASE — Atom Computing, a leader in scalable neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced it has signed an agreement for up to $100 million with the U.S. Department of Commerce to accelerate research and development of fault-tolerant, utility-scale quantum computers. The award follows a Letter of Intent announced earlier this year and represents a significant investment in advancing next-generation computing technologies critical to U.S. economic competitiveness, scientific leadership, and national security. Atom Computing‘s neutral-atom architecture is increasingly recognized as one of the most viable approaches for building large-scale, commercially useful quantum computers. Today’s announcement closely follows the company’s recent selection as the only neutral atom company to advance to Stage C of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (DARPA QBI) with potential funding up to $300 million. Atom has consistently demonstrated technical leadership through several industry milestones, including being the first to build a platform with more than 1,000 qubits, the first neutral-atom company to demonstrate sub-threshold behavior on a system with full, end-to-end quantum error correction over many rounds, and the first to commercially offer a logical-qubit quantum computer. In 2025 Atom Computing sold its f

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Rigetti Computing Integrates Quantum Elements Constellation Platform into Error Correction Pipeline
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Rigetti Computing Integrates Quantum Elements Constellation Platform into Error Correction Pipeline

Superconducting quantum computer developer Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ: RGTI) has integrated Quantum Elements’ Constellation simulation environment into its quantum error correction (QEC) workflow to model processor behavior and project system performance at scale. Following a three-year technical collaboration, Rigetti validated the platform’s ability to predict single- and two-qubit gate fidelity across its 36-qubit and 108-qubit quantum processing units (QPUs). Rigetti & Quantum Elements Constellation Integration ProfileIntegration DimensionTechnical SpecificationOperational & QEC ImpactSimulation EnvironmentQuantum Elements Constellation digital-twin platformExecutes high-fidelity dynamic physical simulations of target quantum processors on classical compute.Physical Error ModelingGate-level fidelity and error-channel characterizationCaptures decoherence and cross-talk behavior beyond small few-qubit subsystems.QEC Pipeline RoleCalibrated noise-model parameter generationSupplies physical error inputs used to estimate logical error rates at scale.Engineering WorkflowPre-execution circuit and processor co-designEnables hardware-aware gate scheduling and optimization prior to physical QPU runs. Scaling superconducting quantum processors toward fault tolerance requires detailed characterization of device physics before committing expensive fabrication or cryogenic runtime cycles. By running physically accurate digital twins on classical hardware, Constellation allows engineering teams to evaluate pulse schedules and system dynamics without consuming physical QPU time. According to Rigetti Chief Executive Officer Subodh Kulkarni, the joint effort expanded the company’s modeling reach across multi-chip architectures, giving hardware and error-correction teams a unified benchmark for diagnosing performance-limiting mechanisms as qubit counts grow. Official announcement details are available via EIN Presswire here, with product specifications on the Quantum Elemen

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Quantum operations guide shows how physics limits information processing

Physics defines the boundaries of information processing, while information processing shapes their understanding of physical reality, according to a new guide to higher-order quantum operations. The work details how short coherence times and thermal fluctuations in devices using trapped ions or superconducting systems present key obstacles to realizing practical quantum technologies. Researchers establish a framework for understanding both the static and dynamic properties of quantum features, coherence, entanglement and their transmission. This approach aims to unify the description of quantum information processing across space and time within a single formalism. Physics Limits Information: The Fundamental Interplay Higher-order quantum operations (HOQOs) provide a means of characterizing non-Markovian quantum dynamics, tools essential for modern quantum physics research and offering a distinct perspective from traditional approaches. This interplay is particularly important when considering the inherent fragility of quantum systems, which complicates the efficient and reliable encoding, processing, transmission, and reading of quantum information. The researchers note that requiring this holds for all instances is a much stronger requirement than only demanding it for a fixed one. The framework’s ability to describe correlated quantum processes while respecting causality makes it fundamental to understanding temporal quantum processes and their applications in quantum information science. Spatial vs. Temporal Quantum Properties & Their Challenges Traditional quantum theory often treats space and time asymmetrically, a distinction that impacts how quantum systems are described and manipulated. While state preparations are generally deterministic, measurement outcomes are inherently probabilistic, creating a fundamental difference in how these processes are modeled. Averaging measurement outcomes across multiple parts of a quantum state accurately describes lo

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Anderson orthogonality catastrophe is seen in quantum dot experiments

Sarath Sankar of Tel Aviv University, Joshua Folk of the University of British Columbia, Yigal Meir of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Eran Sela of Tel Aviv University have proposed methods for directly observing the Anderson orthogonality catastrophe (AOC), a phenomenon describing how a system responds to changes in its potential. Their work details how specific, easily measured properties of a quantum dot coupled to a charge detector exhibit a predictable relationship to the AOC exponent, α, even when the dot is driven far from equilibrium. The researchers used a rate equation formalism incorporating AOC effects on tunnel rates in an exact manner, and their results align with recent experimental findings. This approach offers a path to experimentally estimate α, moving beyond theoretical prediction and enabling direct measurement of a fundamental property of the AOC. Quantum Dot-Detector Coupling Drives Anderson Localization A measurable dependence between the exponent α, characterizing the Anderson orthogonality catastrophe, and easily observed properties forms the basis of new research into quantum dot behavior. The work details how capacitive coupling between a quantum dot and a charge detector provides a pathway to experimentally determine α, moving beyond theoretical predictions of this fundamental property. This is achieved through analysis of tunneling rates influenced by the detector’s state, allowing for direct observation of the AOC in non-equilibrium conditions created by voltage bias or thermal imbalance. The research centers on a model incorporating a spinless quantum dot tunnel-coupled to leads, alongside a quantum dot detector exhibiting strong coupling to its own leads. The model accounts for the detector’s density matrix dependent on the charge state of the primary quantum dot, influencing the tunneling rates between the dot and its leads. This interaction is described by a Hamiltonian including a term proportional to the detector’s occupa

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Top 10 Quantum Computing Companies in Francetechnology

Top 10 Quantum Computing Companies in France

France’s quantum ecosystem spans neutral atoms, cat qubits, photonics, silicon spin processors, quantum networking and sensing. QuantumNews ranks the ten companies leading this diverse and increasingly commercial technology landscape.

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Sunlight generates entangled photon pairs for the first timeresearch

Sunlight generates entangled photon pairs for the first time

Researchers have achieved this milestone despite sunlight's low coherence and intensity, offering a sustainable alternative to lasers.

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Gujarat to Launch State Quantum Mission, Joining India’s Race to Build Regional Quantum Hubsquantum-computing

Gujarat to Launch State Quantum Mission, Joining India’s Race to Build Regional Quantum Hubs

The Gujarat government plans to establish a dedicated Quantum Mission to accelerate research, skills and practical applications across the state. The initiative will complement India’s ₹6,003.65-crore National Quantum Mission, although Gujarat is yet to announce its budget, governance structure or implementation timeline.

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Top 10 Quantum Computing Companies in Japanquantum-computing

Top 10 Quantum Computing Companies in Japan

Japan is quietly building one of the world's most complete quantum ecosystems — spanning superconducting processors, cold neutral-atom hardware, cryogenic materials, quantum software, and pharma-grade quantum chemistry. According to QuantumNews' Japan country page, the ecosystem now counts 52 companies, 8 university research clusters, and 1 national research institution, concentrated heavily around Tokyo (35 companies), with smaller hubs in Osaka, Wako, Yokohama, Chigasaki, Kyoto, Hamamatsu, and Tsukuba. Here's a deep dive into the Top 10 Japanese quantum computing companies, ranked by their QuantumNews Quantum Score — a composite measure of hardware scale, gate fidelity/error-correction maturity, funding raised & investor quality, and commercial momentum & partnerships.

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India’s 1,000-Km Quantum-Secure Network Marks a Defining Moment for the National Quantum Missiontechnology

India’s 1,000-Km Quantum-Secure Network Marks a Defining Moment for the National Quantum Mission

India’s National Quantum Mission has demonstrated a 1,000-kilometre quantum-secured communication network using indigenous technology developed by QNu Labs. The milestone takes India halfway towards its 2,000-kilometre inter-city QKD target and strengthens the country’s position in quantum communication and cybersecurity.

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Silicon-Spin Quantum Computers Move Closer to Integrated Chipstechnology

Silicon-Spin Quantum Computers Move Closer to Integrated Chips

Researchers have integrated silicon spin qubits, cryogenic CMOS control and superconducting interconnects into a working quantum processing unit. The advance addresses one of the biggest barriers to scaling silicon quantum computers: controlling large numbers of qubits without overwhelming cryogenic systems with wiring.

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