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392 listed · 192 research profiles · 77 currently assessedWhat these counts mean

Whole-directory coverage across 8 sectors. The results below follow your selected sector and filters.

Listed
Included in the directory. A listing is not a score or endorsement.
Research profile
A dedicated page with sources and context. It may still be unscored.
Currently assessed
A complete published assessment eligible for the current ranking under Method 1.0. Reviews older than 90 days are excluded.

These groups overlap: an assessed organization is also listed. Score edition .

About QRank

Quantum, in perspective.

Explore documented maturity within each quantum sector. QRank is an editorial research assessment, not a performance benchmark or stock rating.

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SECTOR INTELLIGENCE

Networking

Who is moving quantum links beyond the lab?

5 assessed in networking · Score edition 23 Sept 2026 · Method 1.0

Your question: Which organizations match networking and my filters?

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5 assessed organizations in networking. Showing 1–5.
Rank1
Quantum key distribution and hybrid quantum-safe networksUnited Kingdom / Japan
81.3 /100 · editorial assessment

Supplies specialized optical equipment that establishes encryption keys between sites, plus software for using and managing those keys. It is a Toshiba business, not a standalone quantum-computer startup.

QKD systems and integrationResearch brief reviewed · brief refresh dueEvidence list: 4 source pages
Capability 3 / 4
Delivery 4 / 4
Use in practice 3 / 4
Integration 3 / 4

Limitation: The 254 km result is a field experiment, and key generation rate is not encrypted-data throughput. The global bridge uses PQC; it does not demonstrate an intercontinental optical QKD link. QKD also needs authentication and secure implementation.

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81.3/ 100
External corroboration

External sources support at least half of the weighted assessment. They can include collaborators; this does not imply independent replication or technical superiority.

4 assessment sourcesAssessment reviewed Assessment refresh due
Why this position? for Toshiba Quantum Technology

This score reflects documented maturity using the networking weighting.

Capability 35% weight
3 / 4 · 26.25 points
Delivery 25% weight
4 / 4 · 25 points
Use in practice 25% weight
3 / 4 · 18.75 points
Integration 15% weight
3 / 4 · 11.25 points

Strength: Commercial QKD portfolio, network-partner-confirmed field research and a named financial-sector trial.

Limitation: QKD key rates are not data throughput; the 254 km result is an experiment. The new inter-network bridge uses PQC, so it must not be described as end-to-end optical QKD or an operational satellite network.

External corroboration · Assessment reviewed
Score edition · Method 1.0. Editorial opinion within this sector, not a probability or performance benchmark.

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Rank2(tie)
Commercial fiber testbed for quantum-network developmentUnited States
75.0 /100 · editorial assessment

Lets developers test quantum-network components on maintained metropolitan fiber without first building their own testbed.

Contracted hourly or annual accessResearch brief reviewed · brief refresh dueEvidence list: 5 source pages
Capability 3 / 4
Delivery 3 / 4
Use in practice 3 / 4
Integration 3 / 4

Limitation: This assessment covers the network testbed, not the planned computing facility. One research campaign does not establish an all-purpose quantum internet or a commercial uptime guarantee.

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75.0/ 100
Primarily organization-sourced

The assessment is primarily supported by organization-originated evidence. External evidence does not meet the published half-of-weight threshold.

4 assessment sourcesAssessment reviewed Assessment refresh due
Why this position? for EPB Quantum Network

This score reflects documented maturity using the networking weighting.

Capability 35% weight
3 / 4 · 26.25 points
Delivery 25% weight
3 / 4 · 18.75 points
Use in practice 25% weight
3 / 4 · 18.75 points
Integration 15% weight
3 / 4 · 11.25 points

Strength: Contracted network access and a field demonstration with reported duration and relative fidelity.

Limitation: This assessment covers the network testbed, not the planned computing facility. One research campaign does not establish an all-purpose quantum internet or a commercial uptime guarantee.

Primarily organization-sourced · Assessment reviewed
Score edition · Method 1.0. Editorial opinion within this sector, not a probability or performance benchmark.

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Rank2(tie)
Measurement-device-independent QKD networksNetherlands
75.0 /100 · editorial assessment

Distributes encryption keys between network endpoints and manages their delivery to consuming applications.

Commercial equipment and deployment enquiryResearch brief reviewed · brief refresh dueEvidence list: 5 source pages
Capability 3 / 4
Delivery 3 / 4
Use in practice 3 / 4
Integration 3 / 4

Limitation: Reviewed deployment accounts do not provide a complete independently audited key-rate, loss and uptime benchmark. MDI-QKD does not remove endpoint, authentication or application-security requirements.

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75.0/ 100
Primarily organization-sourced

The assessment is primarily supported by organization-originated evidence. External evidence does not meet the published half-of-weight threshold.

5 assessment sourcesAssessment reviewed Assessment refresh due
Why this position? for Falqon Systems

This score reflects documented maturity using the networking weighting.

Capability 35% weight
3 / 4 · 26.25 points
Delivery 25% weight
3 / 4 · 18.75 points
Use in practice 25% weight
3 / 4 · 18.75 points
Integration 15% weight
3 / 4 · 11.25 points

Strength: Specified multi-node architecture, named deployments and documented key-management interfaces.

Limitation: Reviewed deployment accounts do not provide a complete independently audited key-rate, loss and uptime benchmark. MDI-QKD does not remove endpoint, authentication or application-security requirements.

Primarily organization-sourced · Assessment reviewed
Score edition · Method 1.0. Editorial opinion within this sector, not a probability or performance benchmark.

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Rank2(tie)
Entanglement distribution and quantum network componentsUnited States
75.0 /100 · editorial assessment

Carina creates, stabilizes and distributes entanglement over telecom fiber. This supplies experimental networking resources for teleportation and related quantum applications.

Commercial networking hardwareResearch brief reviewed · brief refresh dueEvidence list: 4 source pages
Capability 3 / 4
Delivery 3 / 4
Use in practice 3 / 4
Integration 3 / 4

Limitation: These experiments establish networking building blocks, not general-purpose distributed computing. The New York experiment uses superconducting detectors at its hub; room-temperature sources do not make the full system cryogen-free.

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75.0/ 100
External corroboration

External sources support at least half of the weighted assessment. They can include collaborators; this does not imply independent replication or technical superiority.

3 assessment sourcesAssessment reviewed Assessment refresh due
Why this position? for Qunnect

This score reflects documented maturity using the networking weighting.

Capability 35% weight
3 / 4 · 26.25 points
Delivery 25% weight
3 / 4 · 18.75 points
Use in practice 25% weight
3 / 4 · 18.75 points
Integration 15% weight
3 / 4 · 11.25 points

Strength: Commercial hardware supported by operator-led field trials and a public experimental preprint.

Limitation: These are network-building-block demonstrations, not a general-purpose quantum internet or production distributed computing service; local swapping rates must not be presented as deployed-fiber rates.

External corroboration · Assessment reviewed
Score edition · Method 1.0. Editorial opinion within this sector, not a probability or performance benchmark.

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Rank5
Quantum processor interconnects and entanglement orchestrationUnited Kingdom
47.5 /100 · editorial assessment

Develops the links needed for separate quantum processors to share entanglement and eventually work together. Its focus is connecting quantum computing nodes, rather than distributing encryption keys.

Partner integrationResearch brief reviewed · brief refresh dueEvidence list: 4 source pages
Capability 2 / 4
Delivery 2 / 4
Use in practice 1 / 4
Integration 3 / 4

Limitation: Controller specifications do not establish end-to-end remote-qubit fidelity or an operating distributed quantum computer. The quoted optical fidelity ceiling must not be treated as measured system fidelity.

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47.5/ 100
Primarily organization-sourced

The assessment is primarily supported by organization-originated evidence. External evidence does not meet the published half-of-weight threshold.

3 assessment sourcesAssessment reviewed Assessment refresh due
Why this position? for Nu Quantum

This score reflects documented maturity using the networking weighting.

Capability 35% weight
2 / 4 · 17.5 points
Delivery 25% weight
2 / 4 · 12.5 points
Use in practice 25% weight
1 / 4 · 6.25 points
Integration 15% weight
3 / 4 · 11.25 points

Strength: A concrete modular networking prototype and documented precision-timing collaboration with CERN.

Limitation: The sources do not establish a commercially operating distributed quantum computer; integration with trapped-ion qubits remained a testbed objective in the February 2026 laboratory announcement.

Primarily organization-sourced · Assessment reviewed
Score edition · Method 1.0. Editorial opinion within this sector, not a probability or performance benchmark.

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Coverage, methodology & sector field guide

Equal scores share a position within their sector.

5 assessed / 31 listed

Directory inclusion is separate from assessment.

A field guide to this sectorKnow what to compare

Ask what is travelling across the link

Entanglement distribution connects quantum systems. Quantum key distribution (QKD) establishes shared secret keys. These are different network capabilities.

Entanglement
Correlations between quantum systems used as a network resource.
QKD
Uses quantum signals to establish encryption keys.
NIST: quantum cryptography

Three questions worth asking

  1. Is this a deployed network, a field trial or a laboratory link?
  2. What distance, loss, fidelity and useful rate were demonstrated together?
  3. What are the trusted-node and classical-network requirements?
QubitWire’s editorial checklist. See company evidence for specific claims.
Four checks before comparing a hardware claim

Use these questions when reading a company’s sources. They explain comparisons; they do not assign or change a QRank score. Every numerical example below is synthetic.

Best device or typical device?

What population does the headline number describe?

A selected result and a median answer different questions. Compare the same statistic, selection rule, measurement method and population before ordering two devices.

Synthetic sample: five coherence times are 40, 50, 60, 70 and 100 microseconds. The best is 100; the median is 60. Both describe this sample, but neither establishes the performance of every qubit or a useful circuit.

Ask for: Find the sample size, tested device set, excluded measurements, distribution and calibration date. If only the best value is disclosed, leave the median unknown.

NIST: defining mean, median and other measures of location

Link to this check
Tested alone or operating together?

Were nearby qubits active during the measurement?

Operating a gate alone and operating it alongside other gates can expose different unwanted interactions. Simultaneous benchmarking explicitly tests an operating context that an isolated measurement does not establish.

Synthetic comparison: an error estimate rises from 0.2% in isolation to 0.8% with neighboring operations active. That is a 0.6 percentage-point change, or four times the original estimate. Without the method and uncertainty, those two numbers do not diagnose the cause.

Ask for: Find the active qubit set, simultaneous operations, benchmark protocol, uncertainty and calibration window. Do not compare an isolated best case with a simultaneous average as though they were the same test.

Gambetta et al.: individual and simultaneous randomized benchmarking

Link to this check
Error per gate, per cycle or per task?

What exactly counts as one opportunity for error?

A physical-gate error, a logical-cycle error and an application failure rate use different units and protocols. Keep the operation, code and decoding conditions with the result. A smaller percentage with a different denominator does not settle a comparison.

Synthetic classical event model: if ten independent operations each have a 1% chance of a flagged failure, the chance of at least one flag is 1 − 0.99¹⁰, about 9.56%. This is not a conversion from quantum gate infidelity to circuit failure: coherent errors, correlations and cancellation can break that interpretation.

Ask for: Find the error definition, benchmark, number of repetitions and confidence interval. For logical results, also find code distance, cycle definition, decoding method and any discarded trials.

Magesan et al.: the assumptions of interleaved gate benchmarking

Link to this check
Fast operation or fast complete job?

Where does the reported stopwatch start and stop?

Circuit execution is one part of a complete experiment. Preparing the job, waiting for access, repeating measurements and processing the output can each take time. Device usage and elapsed time are also different accounting quantities.

Synthetic job: 1,000 repetitions of a 50-microsecond gate sequence contribute 0.05 seconds. Add 0.25 seconds for readout/reset, 2 seconds of preparation, 10 seconds waiting and 1 second processing: the complete toy job takes 13.3 seconds.

Ask for: Find included stages, repetitions, error-mitigation work, queue treatment and output-quality requirement. Compare equivalent completed tasks before interpreting a speedup.

IBM Quantum: workload usage and execution-time components

Change the assumptions in the experiment-time lesson →

Link to this check

Background sources checked 2026-10-16. The examples are QubitWire teaching calculations, not results from the cited experiments.

Common QRank questions
Does the highest score mean the fastest computer?
No. QRank assesses documented maturity within a sector. Performance depends on the product, workload and test conditions.
Why does a listed organization have no score?
A listing and a complete assessment are different. No published assessment means no score has been published; it does not mean poor performance. An expired assessment can remain in a profile as history.
Does a larger qubit count mean better performance?
No. Physical and error-corrected logical qubits describe different things. Operations, errors and the resources needed for the task matter too.
Do more sources mean stronger proof?
Several pages can describe the same experiment. Company sources can document useful results; external authors may be collaborators. Neither link counts nor external-source badges establish independent replication. The evidence list counts distinct assessment and profile-research URLs; guides can link to additional context.
Does a new source update the score?
No. Research context and assessment reviews are separate. Scores change only when the criterion inputs are reviewed and a change is recorded. Source checks and formatting edits do not renew an assessment date.
Why is an assessment date older than the research?
A profile can include later context while retaining its earlier score review. A review is due after 30 days; assessments older than 90 days leave the current ranking. The date does not promise a future review.
How do I check access and pricing?
Use the linked official route for the named product. Plans, regions, eligibility and features can change; a simulation, pilot or partner integration does not establish public hardware access.
How can I suggest a correction?
Use a claim’s correction link and include the product, source location and proposed change, or email contact@qubitwire.com. Submitting evidence does not automatically change a score.
What matters in this sectorView scoring weights

Entanglement networks and QKD links have different purposes. Open a profile to see the technology and exact evidence.

35%Capability

Measured link or network operation under declared distance, loss and fidelity conditions.

25%Delivery

Available equipment or services and the level of operating support.

25%Use in practice

Named network operators, external trials and field outcomes.

15%Integration

Interfaces and compatibility with optical and classical network infrastructure.

A position should be explainable.

Scores express the QubitWire team’s opinions about documented maturity, using sector-specific weights. They are research-informed judgments, not predictions or objective performance measurements.

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Read, question, follow the source

What would the next piece of evidence show?

Company guides trace the path from an announcement to a measured component, accepted system or exact product certification.

Company evidence guideIQM: when is an installed system accepted?Follow an installed quantum system from supplier delivery to customer acceptance.Context reviewed

It identifies the traded instrument and its relationship to the underlying shares. Readers should use that instrument when checking issuer filings or a licensed quote provider; a warrant or Helsinki share line needs its own identity and market metadata.

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Company evidence guideXanadu: what does a foundry partnership establish?Connect the new foundry agreement to the measurements that would establish manufacturing readiness.Context reviewed

It establishes the agreement described by the parties. Production readiness needs additional evidence about fabricated devices, yield, repeatability, packaging and accepted system performance. The record deliberately treats those as separate steps.

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Company evidence guidePasqal: what runs on an analog quantum processor?The cited issuer identity and the task a reader can execute using an analog platform.Context reviewed

Yes, as transaction history with its original date and status. Use the later completed-transaction and reporting evidence to distinguish the completed state from the earlier proposal.

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Company evidence guideAlice & Bob: what can researchers measure on the testbed?Use the Helium announcement to ask precise questions about encoded experiments and partner access.Context reviewed

No. The complete encoded operation still has to account for the error processes that remain, including those associated with control, measurement and correction. The value of a biased-noise architecture depends on how those parts work together.

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Company evidence guideDiraq: from fabricated devices to usable qubitsRead the eight-qubit foundry result through the denominators that manufacturing requires.Context reviewed

It can show that a particular process supports functioning quantum devices under stated conditions. The next questions concern reproducibility and integration; a small result need not answer those questions to be technically useful.

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Company evidence guideQuantum Motion: what makes a system installation reproducible?Turn a full-stack deployment claim into a record of what users can reproduce.Context reviewed

It can clarify what was delivered, accepted and made available within the testbed. The supplier and customer may describe different boundaries, so retaining both documents helps readers understand the actual service or research capability.

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Company evidence guideOxford Ionics: how to read its benchmark historyKeep original experiments, acquisition history and later integration results in separate dated records.Context reviewed

No. It changes the organizational context, not the experiment that was performed. The result should retain its original provenance and be linked to the current ownership timeline.

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Company evidence guideQblox: what does timing mean in a control system?Evaluate control electronics against an experiment’s signals and timing obligations.Context reviewed

The channels must support the required amplitude, noise, bandwidth, synchronization and readout relationships. A larger count cannot answer those compatibility questions by itself.

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Company evidence guideQuantum Machines: why do calibration results need software versions?Trace a calibration claim through its controller, software versions, fit and final validation.Context reviewed

It can alter waveform construction, fitting, scheduling, parameter selection or result handling. A version record helps separate those changes from physical-device changes and makes a later comparison more meaningful.

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Company evidence guideBluefors: which parts of a quantum system need cooling?A cryogenic partnership becomes useful when the cooled subsystem and thermal load are explicit.Context reviewed

The temperature requirements belong to particular components and detectors, not to the word photonic as a whole. A system-level description should identify those components and their operating conditions.

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Company evidence guideArqit: what does a quantum-safe product protect?Classify ARQQ through its security products and examine the trust boundary behind the label.Context reviewed

No. These security products are intended to address cryptographic threats, including future quantum threats. The business and technical evidence therefore centre on deployment, assurance and integration rather than processor benchmarks.

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Company evidence guideSEALSQ: how can a product certification be checked?Follow each chip from a certification target to an exact, checkable assurance record.Context reviewed

No. It states planned milestones. Completion requires the relevant authoritative record and the exact product configuration to which it applies.

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