Gold’s Quantum Moment

How two research teams and a London based quantum hardware company are betting nanoscale gold can crack the stability-scalability problem that has sta...

The Quantum Insider

Forbidden Subspaces in Quantum State Smoothing

A system between a preparation and a post-selection has had no agreed state since 1964. With positivity as the criterion, a post-selection admits an i...

arXiv Quantum Physics

TOYO Corporation Buys Second IQM Quantum Computer

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — IQM Quantum Computers, a global leader in superconducting quantum computers, today announced that TOYO Corporation has p...

The Quantum Insider

The generalised semi-Clifford conjecture is false

The Clifford hierarchy is a nested sequence of sets of quantum gates that can be fault-tolerantly performed using gate teleportation within standard q...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Adaptive AI for Pulse-Level Quantum Control

The Control Variational Quantum Eigensolver (ctrl-VQE) directly optimizes microwave pulses to enable faster and lower-error quantum-state preparation,...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Lindblad Multiproduct Formulas

We introduce Lindblad Multiproduct Formulas: a quantum error mitigation technique that uses two-dimensional tensor networks contracted with loop-corre...

arXiv Quantum Physics

On the geometry and typicality of quantum magic

We prove that, for an $n$-qubit system of dimension $d=2^n$, every state satisfying $\operatorname{Tr}(ρ^2)\le 1/(d-a_\ast)$, with $a_\ast=0.458327\cd...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Multi-Boundary Many-Body Quantum Teleportation

Unlike standard quantum teleportation, many-body teleportation uses scrambling to transmit quantum information. In this protocol, initially localized ...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Quantum low-density lattice codes

Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes provide a family of promising schemes for encoding discrete quantum information (qudits) into infinite-dimension...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Optimal Fusion Strategies for Quantum Computation

Logical fusions are important for a number of tasks in quantum information, such as quantum error correction and quantum repeaters. In the photonic se...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Molecular spin qubits in a van der Waals bottle

Advancing quantum information technologies requires qubits whose coherence can be precisely engineered. Among the qubit platforms in development, mole...

arXiv Condensed Matter

Neutral atom quantum computing

Neutral atom qubits are one of the leading approaches for implementation of a large scale quantum computer. The original proposals for neutral atom qu...

arXiv Quantum Physics

A quantum let within the lambda calculus

Since the seminal work of Selinger and Valiron, the standard design for quantum lambda calculi has kept the quantum state outside the program: terms m...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Detuning- and Stark-robust Rydberg gates

Rydberg entangling gates driven by a two-photon transition in alkali atoms suffer from an adverse scaling of light-shift-induced errors. Robustness to...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Least Variable Quantum Counting Processes

Counting processes provide a fundamental description of stochastic events ranging from photon detection to clock ticks. A central question is how accu...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Switchable heavy-hole/light-hole spin qubit

Compressively strained Ge quantum wells in planar SiGe/Ge heterostructures are the state-of-the-art platform for hole spin qubits. While they exhibit ...

arXiv Quantum Physics

The bottleneck dimension of quantum operations

Programmable quantum devices nominally act on a Hilbert space whose dimension grows exponentially with the number of constituents, but the presence of...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Essentially optimal gate teleportation

Gate teleportation allows us to implement a nonlocal unitary using local operations, classical communication (LOCC), and a shared entangled state. Kno...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Entangling Power Dynamics: Ergodicity and Mixing

We study quantum dynamics through the lens of entanglement generation and characterize the underlying unitary evolution by the distinct signatures it ...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Rethinking Quantum Circuits

These notes develop four interconnected ways of reading a quantum circuit. A circuit for us begins as an operational composition of gates; then, it be...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Thermal Throttling of Quantum State Transfer

Quantum state transfer on qubit lattices is a crucial step in a panoply of quantum information processing tasks. Understanding its fundamental limits ...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Quantum Simulation of QCD in Axial Gauge

We study quantum simulation of SU(3) non-Abelian gauge theory dynamically coupled with fundamental fermions in $3+1$ dimensions by employing the latti...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Robust Quantum Extremal Numbers

Absolutely maximally entangled states require every reduction of at most half of the parties to be maximally mixed, a condition that is both rigid and...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Inductively-protected Andreev (IPA) spin qubit

The spin of a quasiparticle trapped in a quantum dot Josephson junction forms the basis of an Andreev spin qubit (ASQ): a semiconductor-superconductor...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Witnessing the architecture of quantum circuits

Determining whether a target unitary can be implemented within a prescribed quantum circuit architecture is a fundamental problem in quantum informati...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Formal Verification of Quantum Ancilla Safety

Ensuring ancilla safety is a critical correctness requirement for quantum compilation, since ancilla qubits are routinely introduced to implement comp...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Spin Qubits in Photon-Coupled Microwave Cavities

Electron spin qubits in microwave cavities provide a promising platform for scalable quantum computing hardware, leveraging long coherence times, char...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Shor's algorithm requires Fanout

Shor's algorithm is a canonical quantum supremacy target whose core operation relies on the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT). We resolve an open questi...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Balanced Routing for Symmetric Quantum Circuits

Mapping quantum programs to restricted physical chips requires SWAP operations, incurring depth and error penalties. In symmetric programs, this routi...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Quantum error correction with global control

Reaching fault tolerance means scaling qubit counts by orders of magnitude, a jump that conventional superconducting architectures cannot sustain with...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Perfect Games in Dimension-Bounded Communication

Perfect prepare-and-measure games exhibit an all-or-nothing quantum advantage: a quantum system of dimension $d$ satisfies every prescribed winning co...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Chiral magnons for spin-qubit state transfer

We propose a protocol where chiral magnons mediate a state transfer between two distant spin qubits. The protocol is implemented by varying the coupli...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Training Quantum Dragons

The Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) is the standard formalism for nano-scale electron transport. By recasting the NEGF scattering problem as a...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Photonic Quantum Technology Companies in 2026

Insider Brief Most quantum computers rely on extreme cooling to keep their qubits stable. Photonic quantum computers take a different route by using p...

The Quantum Insider

Electron shuttling as a probe for charge defects

Silicon spin qubits are a leading platform for scalable quantum computing, but their performance is limited by charge noise, widely attributed to two-...

arXiv Quantum Physics

The trainability of photonic quantum circuits

Variational quantum algorithms are a leading approach to near-term quantum computing, but their scalability can be limited by barren plateaus and the ...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Topology of the Set of Entangled State

We investigate the topology of the set $\mathsf E$ of entangled bipartite density operators acting on $\mathbb{C}^{n_1}\otimes\mathbb{C}^{n_2}$. We st...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Image Classification on IBM Quantum Computers

Quantum machine learning on real noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware has remained largely confined to binary or few-class tasks, limited ...

arXiv Quantum Physics

Spatial nonlocality imaging via metasurface

Bell nonlocality is both a defining signature of entanglement and a key quantum information resource. However, visualizing and certifying nonlocal cor...

arXiv Quantum Physics