Quantum Computing
Quantum Computing news — Wednesday 04 November 2026
17 stories from 3 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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IonQ Partners With QuantumCT to Expand Quantum Computing Access in Connecticut
The Quantum Insider
Insider Brief IonQ has partnered with QuantumCT to provide Connecticut-based universities, research laboratories, startups and businesses with access to its trapped-ion quantum computers. The agreement includes more than 150 hours of cloud…
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IonQ Completes Acquisition of Zero Trust Security Company Elisity
The Quantum Insider
Insider Brief IonQ has completed its all-stock acquisition of Elisity, adding Zero Trust security technology to its portfolio of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum key distribution (QKD) capabilities. Elisity’s platform helps…
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IBM Quantum and QuICS Deploy AI Agents to Discover Over 500 High-Efficiency Magic-State Factories
Quantum Computing Report
IBM Quantum and QuICS researchers have discovered over 500 new "magic-state factories" using AI agents and deterministic solvers. These factories produce non-Clifford states with significantly lower resource requirements, which is crucial…
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Qoro Quantum Opens Cloud GPU Simulation Tier to Accelerate Large-Scale Circuit Emulation
Quantum Computing Report
Qoro Quantum has launched a new cloud-based GPU simulation tier for its Divi Python framework, allowing researchers to run tensor-network and noisy quantum circuit simulations without manual cluster administration. This platform provides…
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IonQ Completes $1.15B Acquisition of Elisity to Integrate Zero Trust with Quantum Security
Quantum Computing Report
IonQ has acquired Elisity for $1.15 billion, integrating Elisity's zero-trust cybersecurity with IonQ's quantum security technologies. This acquisition allows IonQ to enter the enterprise IT security market, combining real-time breach…
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IonQ Partners with QuantumCT to Provide Trapped-Ion Cloud Access Across Connecticut
Quantum Computing Report
IonQ has partnered with QuantumCT to provide over 150 hours of cloud access to IonQ's trapped-ion quantum systems for organizations across Connecticut. This collaboration, involving institutions like the University of Connecticut and Yale…
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D-Wave Enhances Stride Hybrid Solver and Releases Applied Optimization Learning Path
Quantum Computing Report
D-Wave has upgraded its Stride hybrid solver, significantly reducing solution times and improving quality for complex optimization problems like Traveling Salesperson and Assembly Line Balancing. They've also launched a new developer…
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EIC Scaling Club Reports €4 Billion Raised, Including Major Quantum and AI Round
The Quantum Insider
Insider Brief EIC Scaling Club companies, including quantum and AI businesses, have raised more than €4 billion since joining, increasing their funding 2.3 times faster than comparable businesses relative to their pre-joining totals…
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Quantum Base Secures £700,000 UKRI Research Fellowship
The Quantum Insider
Insider Brief Quantum Base has secured a £700,000 UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Grant to fund a four-year research programme led by its Head of Materials Science, Dr William Thom. The Q-MAT programme will focus on developing quantum…
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D-Wave Updates Stride Hybrid Solver With Faster Optimization Performance
The Quantum Insider
Insider Brief D-Wave has upgraded its Stride hybrid solver, reporting improvements in solution quality and execution time across optimization benchmarks. In traveling salesperson benchmarks, the enhanced solver produced solutions averaging…
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CQMTEK Raises More Than $15 Million For Quantum Measurement Expansion
The Quantum Insider
Insider Brief CQMTEK raised more than 100 million yuan in pre-Series B financing to expand manufacturing and commercial applications of its quantum precision measurement products. The investment came from Huzhou Jinkun and Huzhou South…
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China’s Photonic Quantum Computer Among WIC Award Winners
The Quantum Insider
Insider Brief China’s Jiuzhang 4.0 photonic quantum computer was among 20 projects honored with the 2026 World Internet Conference Leading Science and Technology Awards. In past experiments, the USTC prototype detected up to 3,050 photons…
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Cannes to Host First World Quantum Cannes Festival on November 17-18
The Quantum Insider
Insider Brief The Department of Alpes-Maritimes, Institut EuropIA, Université Côte d’Azur and the City of Cannes are supporting the first World Quantum Cannes Festival, scheduled for November 17–18. The event will bring together quantum…
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Guest Post: Why Crypto-Agility Matters for Financial Institutions Preparing for PQC
The Quantum Insider
Guest Post by Andrew Gault, CEO, ZeroTier. The financial services industry depends on cryptography to move money, protect customer and transaction data, verify digital identities, and connect banks with processors, cloud providers, and…
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One Broken Symmetry Opens a Path to Universal Quantum Control
The Quantum Insider
Insider Brief Researchers developed a theory of universal control in globally driven quantum systems and demonstrated an effective three-atom interaction in a Rydberg-atom experiment. For a one-dimensional qubit chain with uniform…
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Perturbation-based Non-perturbative Method
arXiv quant-ph
arXiv:2308.10996v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a nonperturbative method for solving eigenproblems. This method applies to almost all potentials and provides nonperturbative approximations for any energy level. The…
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Everlasting secure key agreement from a quantum computational hybrid security model
arXiv quant-ph
arXiv:2004.10173v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce the Quantum Computational Timelock (QCT) model, combining time-lock encryption with a quantitative noisy-quantum-storage assumption. Time-lock encryption gives Bob immediate…