JION Launch Brings Microwave-Controlled Ions to Jülich
The newly inaugurated quantum computer is operational, with qualification, broader access and supercomputer integration still progressing.
Hybrid quantum computing
Where quantum processors fit alongside CPUs, GPUs and supercomputers.
A clear starting point
A hybrid workflow combines classical processing with quantum operations. Classical machines prepare jobs, optimize parameters and interpret measurements, while the quantum processor performs a particular part of the calculation.
The relevant measure is the end-to-end workload. Shorter circuits or faster hardware can help, but data movement, queueing, sampling and classical processing can change the overall result.
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The funding opportunity asks teams to show how an entire application benefits, with a defined end user and credible classical comparisons.
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Quantinuum, NVIDIA and Pfizer Test AI-Generated Chemistry Circuits
A research workflow trains a transformer to propose molecular state-preparation circuits, with selected circuits tested on Helios hardware.
QOBLIB Expands Shared Benchmarks for Quantum Optimization
A common library of ten optimization problem classes gives quantum and classical approaches comparable tasks and public results.
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AWS and JPMorganChase Study Smaller Inputs for Quantum Optimization
Their research combines classical preprocessing and problem decomposition with quantum workflows to reduce the burden placed on hardware.
RIKEN Opens ROQUO Platform for Quantum and HPC Research
The GPU supercomputer is operating in Kobe, with tightly coupled quantum-HPC integration identified as a scientific goal.
Allstate and IBM Test a Hybrid Insurance-Portfolio Workflow
The research combines quantum-generated candidate portfolios with classical repair and compares results against classical methods.
Who is working on it
Amazon Braket
Provides a common access layer for supported processors, classical simulators and jobs combining quantum tasks with classical computing.
Research & evidence →Azure Quantum
Helps developers write quantum programs, submit supported workloads to cloud providers and explore the resources future error-corrected machines would need.
Research & evidence →D-Wave Quantum
Programs an energy landscape and samples candidate solutions with superconducting flux qubits. Leap also offers solvers that combine classical processing with quantum annealing.
Research & evidence →IBM Quantum
Combines programmable quantum processors with Qiskit tools, cloud job execution and device calibration records, giving developers a route from circuit design to experiments on hardware.
Research & evidence →NVIDIA CUDA-Q
Lets developers express quantum routines and combine them with classical computing, then select a simulator or supported quantum-hardware backend.
Research & evidence →Phasecraft
Designs circuits and quantum algorithms for interacting-electron models and materials research. Its public database helps readers inspect estimated qubit and circuit-depth requirements for candidate materials.
Research & evidence →Selected organizations relevant to this topic. Inclusion is not a ranking.
Watch & understand
Quantum Algorithms Pt. 4 Optimization | Sabina Dragoi |QGSS26
Sabina Dragoi follows a quantum optimization problem from its mathematical formulation to execution on hardware. The lecture explains how problem encoding, useful starting points and circuit compilation affect results, then introduces QOBLIB as a way to compare progress. A practical guide to assessing quantum solvers, with future advantage presented as a goal.
Watch the original video →VQE: Finding Ground State Energy on a Real Quantum Computer
Katie McCormick explains the variational quantum eigensolver through a small hydrogen-energy calculation. Follow how a trial quantum circuit, measurements and a classical optimizer work together, then explore the accompanying IBM lesson to try the workflow. An accessible technical example of hybrid computing, with a small teaching problem rather than a claim of quantum advantage.
Watch the original video →Quantum + HPC: Hybrid Workflows | Vincent Pascuzzi | QGSS26
Vincent Pascuzzi explains how CPUs, GPUs and quantum processors fit into a shared scientific workflow. Focuses on orchestration and the classical work around a quantum calculation, rather than treating a QPU as a replacement supercomputer.
Watch the original video →Microsoft in the race to build the ultimate supercomputer | BBC News | BBC News
BBC Tech Now reporter Adrienne Murray visits Microsoft's quantum laboratory in Denmark to see where its chips are being developed. This concise report provides rare access to a working research setting and an approachable view of the engineering race, grounded in a real laboratory visit.
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