Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory is a USA national laboratory founded July 1, 1946, located in Lemont, Illinois, operated by University of Chicago for United States Department of Energy. Argonne pursues research spanning theory, algorithms, simulations, and modeling of quantum systems leveraging supercomputing resources and multi-qubit hardware platforms. The laboratory operates quantum computing testbeds integrating quantum processors with high-performance computing infrastructure enabling hybrid quantum-classical algorithms. Argonne conducts quantum computing research across superconducting qubits, quantum algorithms, quantum networking, and quantum simulation applications. The laboratory is one of five DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers with over 1,500 experts collaborating across quantum research initiatives. Argonne serves scientific research community, government agencies, and industry partners requiring quantum computing applications in chemistry, materials science, optimization, and machine learning advancing quantum computational advantage for national security and energy applications.

BBN Technologies

BBN Technologies (Raytheon BBN Technologies) is a high-technology research and development company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1948, conducting superconducting quantum computing research. BBN Technologies is recognized among companies conducting research in superconducting quantum computing alongside Google, IBM, Rigetti, and Intel. The organization developed quantum communication protocols and quantum networking technologies, contributing to early quantum key distribution systems and quantum network architectures. BBN Technologies, now part of Raytheon Technologies, conducts quantum computing research focused on quantum processors, quantum networking, and quantum algorithms. The company serves government agencies and research institutions requiring advanced quantum technologies for secure communications, quantum computing infrastructure, and quantum information processing applications.

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory is a USA national laboratory founded in 1947, located in Upton, New York, operating under United States Department of Energy. Brookhaven leads Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), one of five DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers established in 2020, directed by Andrew Houck. C2QA brings together experts to co-design quantum hardware, software, and algorithms to achieve quantum advantage. The laboratory conducts quantum computing research spanning superconducting qubits, quantum algorithms, quantum networking, and quantum sensors. Brookhaven operates quantum computing testbeds and collaborates with over 1,500 experts across 115 academic, industry, and national science institutions. The laboratory serves quantum computing research community, government agencies, and industry partners requiring fundamental quantum research, quantum algorithm development, and quantum hardware co-design advancing towards practical quantum advantage for scientific applications in physics, chemistry, materials science, and national security.

Cornell University

Cornell University is a private Ivy League research university founded in 1865, located in Ithaca, New York. Cornell conducts advanced quantum research advancing quantum materials quantum computing and quantum technologies. The university excels in quantum materials science superconducting devices and quantum hardware development. Cornell researchers contribute to quantum algorithms quantum error correction and quantum applications. The university has produced quantum technology spinouts and maintains strong quantum industry partnerships. Cornell serves quantum research community through quantum research quantum education and technology transfer advancing quantum information science and quantum materials development supporting USA quantum technology leadership.

IBM Quantum

In 2024-2025, IBM Quantum unveiled its 156-qubit Heron processor featuring a new architectural approach emphasizing modularity and error mitigation, achieving 16 times better performance and a 25-fold increase in speed over 2022 systems. At the inaugural IBM Quantum Developer Conference in 2024, IBM achieved accurate computations on circuits with 100 qubits and gate depths of 100 and 5,000 two-qubit gate operations in under a day’s runtime. IBM introduced multi-chip coupling innovations including ’l-couplers’ for linking distant chips via cables and ’m-couplers’ for tightly connecting adjacent chips, demonstrated with IBM Quantum Flamingo connecting two Heron R2 chips, with the production-ready Flamingo system expected in 2025. IBM’s roadmap extends to 2026 with the Kookaburra system demonstrating the first integration of logical qubit processing with quantum memory, and by 2028, the Starling system will operate 200 logical qubits requiring approximately 10,000 physical qubits using IBM’s efficient LDPC codes.

IQM

On September 3, 2025, IQM secured $320 million (€275 million) in a Series B funding round led by Ten Eleven Ventures and 55 North, bringing total capital to $600 million - the largest quantum computing funding outside the United States. IQM reached a significant production milestone by manufacturing 30 full-stack quantum computers at its facility in Espoo, Finland. The company deployed Poland’s first superconducting quantum computer at Wrocław University of Science and Technology, expected to become operational in Q2 2025. In early September 2025, IQM’s 5-qubit Spark system was installed at the Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute in Taipei, marking the first fully integrated superconducting quantum computer in a Taiwanese research environment. IQM also made its 20-qubit quantum processing unit, IQM Garnet, available through Amazon Braket, marking the first time IQM’s quantum computers are accessible via cloud in a self-service, on-demand model and expanding Amazon Braket’s availability to the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is a USA national laboratory founded in 1943 during Manhattan Project, located in Los Alamos, New Mexico, operated by Triad National Security LLC for United States Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration. LANL conducts quantum computing research spanning quantum algorithms, quantum simulation, quantum cryptography, quantum networking, and quantum sensors for national security applications. The laboratory develops quantum technologies for nuclear weapons stewardship, materials science, secure communications, and sensing applications. LANL operates quantum computing testbeds exploring superconducting qubits, trapped ions, and quantum annealing for optimization and simulation problems. The laboratory collaborates with DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers and industry partners advancing quantum computing for national security missions. LANL serves Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and intelligence community requiring quantum computing capabilities for weapons physics, cryptanalysis, materials discovery, and quantum-safe cryptography protecting national security information against quantum threats.

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a USA federal agency founded March 3, 1901, located in Gaithersburg, Maryland and Boulder, Colorado, operating under United States Department of Commerce. NIST conducts quantum computing research developing quantum standards, quantum metrology, post-quantum cryptography standards, and quantum networking protocols. The Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) is collaboration between NIST and University of Maryland conducting fundamental quantum research spanning trapped ions, neutral atoms, superconducting qubits, and quantum simulation. NIST leads National Quantum Initiative coordination through National Quantum Coordination Office housed within White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In 2024 NIST published first post-quantum cryptography standards (FIPS 203, 204, 205) protecting against quantum computer threats. NIST serves government agencies, industry, and research institutions requiring quantum standards, quantum measurement techniques, and quantum-safe cryptography standards. NIST advances quantum technology through fundamental research, standards development, and technology transfer supporting USA quantum leadership.

Peking University Quantum Materials and Devices Center

Peking University Quantum Materials and Devices Center is a major research center for quantum materials, devices, and computing, contributing talent to Chinese quantum companies. The center conducts fundamental research on quantum materials and devices. The center’s research spans topological materials, superconducting materials, and quantum devices, providing scientific foundations for China’s quantum hardware development and training the next generation of quantum scientists.

Company Information

• Founded: 2015
• Country: China
• Website: https://pku.edu.cn
• Categories: hardware, quantum components, quantum education, quantum investment, quantum research, superconducting, topological

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Photon Spot

Photon Spot is a California-based company specializing in sub-Kelvin cryogenic systems and superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) for quantum technology applications. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Monrovia, California, the company offers detectors with ultralow dark counts, precise timing resolution, and high quantum efficiency, combined with cryogenic systems operating at temperatures below 1 Kelvin. Photon Spot’s products serve quantum communications, quantum computing, quantum sensing, and semiconductor diagnostics applications. The company’s ultra-compact, ultra-low vibration cryogenic systems support time-resolved imaging applications benefiting integrated circuit manufacturers and quantum technology researchers. Primary customers include research institutions, national laboratories, and companies engaged in quantum-related research and development. Backed by investors including the National Science Foundation, Photon Spot represents American innovation in single-photon detection technology critical to photonic quantum computing, quantum key distribution, and quantum metrology applications.

PLASSYS-BESTEK

PLASSYS-BESTEK, founded in 1987, is a French company providing high-performance vacuum and ultra-high vacuum solutions for innovative thin film material deposition. PLASSYS-BESTEK is a recognized leader in equipment for quantum technologies, having designed top-level deposition tools since the early 2000s that are now central to manufacturing superconducting qubits and other quantum devices. The company supplies custom-designed systems for prestigious research laboratories, universities, and industrial manufacturing plants. In October 2025, PLASSYS-BESTEK delivered the SQUID-6 UHV, a state-of-the-art quantum chip fabrication equipment, to Alice & Bob as part of the ULTRACAT project supported by France’s defense innovation agency (AID). The SQUID-6 UHV is a fully automated, ultra-high vacuum deposition system employing a modular cluster architecture that minimizes chip exposure to cross-contamination, reducing material imperfections and guaranteeing high-quality Quantum Processing Units (QPUs). PLASSYS’s core technologies include vacuum evaporation (thermal/e-beam), sputtering, and ion etching, along with production systems for diamond growth via PECVD. PLASSYS equipment is vital for applications in semiconductor technology, superconductors, nano-electronics, optics, photonics, and spintronics.

Qilimanjaro

Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech is a Barcelona Supercomputer Center spinout founded in 2019 that develops quantum computing solutions combining quantum annealing and gate-model quantum computing approaches, creating hybrid quantum-classical systems that can solve optimization problems and quantum simulations for industries including finance, logistics, and materials science, leveraging Spain’s supercomputing expertise and European quantum initiatives to advance practical quantum computing applications with focus on near-term quantum advantage in optimization and simulation problems. In September 2025, Qilimanjaro announced a strategic partnership with Qblox, a Netherlands-based quantum control hardware company, to integrate Qblox’s control electronics with Qilimanjaro’s superconducting quantum processors, enabling enhanced scalability and performance for their quantum computing systems through advanced control and readout capabilities. In October 2025, Qilimanjaro joined the IMPAQT UA cooperative consortium as the first analog quantum computing company, focused on building interoperable and scalable quantum systems through collaborative research and development with other European quantum technology organizations. In October 2025, Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech and QURECA signed a collaboration agreement for quantum education, including workshops on analog and hybrid quantum computing with hands-on access to Qilimanjaro’s platform to advance quantum computing education and workforce development.

Qruise

Qruise is a German quantum control software company founded in 2018 as a Forschungszentrum Jülich spinoff that develops machine learning-powered software for quantum device development, creating ‘digital twin’ simulators and automated optimization algorithms that replace manual work traditionally done by quantum physicists, with strategic partnerships with Quantum Machines and Zurich Instruments to integrate their ML Physicist software into quantum control systems for automated qubit tune-up, gate optimization, and device characterization across superconducting and Rydberg atom quantum platforms.

Quantum Machines

In 2024-2025, Quantum Machines is hosting the AQC25 (Adaptive Quantum Circuits Conference) taking place November 12-14, 2025, in Boston, bringing together global experts from MIT, Yale, USC, Google Quantum AI, and Amazon Braket to advance adaptive quantum methods and define the future of scalable quantum computing applications. A Novera QPU has been co-located at the Israeli Quantum Computing Center (IQCC) with Quantum Machines’ OPX1000 control system and NVIDIA’s Grace-Hopper superchip servers. This setup was leveraged for a reinforcement learning project presented at IEEE Quantum Week 2024 in September, demonstrating the optimization of single qubit operations on the Novera QPU for quantum machine learning development. Quantum Machines continues to collaborate with tech firms such as Classiq to develop hybrid quantum-classical computing systems aimed at tackling challenging computational problems, with control systems scaling to support large numbers of qubits needed for error correction.

QUDORA

QUDORA is a German quantum computing developer specializing in trapped-ion quantum computers using Near-Field Quantum Control (NFQC) technology. The company’s flagship NFQC technology relies on ions confined in electromagnetic traps and manipulated with finely tuned laser pulses, enabling room-temperature operation that reduces infrastructure costs compared to superconducting circuits requiring millikelvin temperatures. QUDORA’s compact, scalable architecture allows dozens of ions to be entangled in a single chip-scale module to create fault-tolerant quantum processors capable of running complex algorithms in minutes with cloud-based workflow compatibility. In September 2025, QUDORA announced a strategic collaboration with South Korean research institutions and technology partners to establish quantum computing research centers in Seoul and Daejeon, focusing on quantum applications for advanced materials, battery technology, and semiconductor manufacturing, positioning South Korea as a key market for QUDORA’s Asia-Pacific expansion strategy. In October 2025, QUDORA closed a strategic partnership with Kensho, a Taiwanese distributor, to accelerate quantum computing commercialization in Taiwan, combining QUDORA’s trapped-ion platform with Kensho’s deep ties to Taiwan’s precision-manufacturing sector to bring quantum-enhanced tools into laboratories, factories, and corporate data centers across Asia-Pacific. The alliance generated significant attention at SEMICON Taiwan 2025, targeting applications in semiconductor design, pharmaceutical research, and industrial optimization while expanding QUDORA’s presence beyond Europe into the strategically important Asia-Pacific market.

Rigetti Computing

In 2024-2025, Rigetti Computing completed a $350 million at-the-market equity offering during Q2 2025, bolstering the company’s cash position to approximately $575 million with no debt. In December 2024, Rigetti launched its 84-qubit Ankaa-3 quantum processor, achieving record-high fidelity with a 99.0% median iSWAP gate fidelity and 99.5% median fSim gate fidelity. In 2025, Rigetti unveiled Cepheus-1-36Q, a 36-qubit multi-chip quantum computer now generally available, demonstrating a two-fold reduction in two-qubit gate error rate compared to the preceding Ankaa-3 system, achieving a median two-qubit gate fidelity of 99%. The company anticipates releasing a 100+ qubit system, also chiplet-based, with a target median two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.5% before the end of 2025. In collaboration with Riverlane and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), Rigetti won £3.5 million from Innovate UK to enhance quantum error correction capabilities on superconducting quantum computers.

SDT

SDT Inc. (Quantum Standard Technology) is a South Korean quantum technology company founded in 2017 with headquarters in Seoul, pioneering quantum computing, quantum cloud, quantum communication, and quantum sensing commercialization. Founded by CEO Jiwon Yune, who studied physics and electronic engineering at MIT and worked as a researcher at MIT-Harvard University Research Center and KIST Quantum Information Research Center, SDT is leading development of South Korea’s first full-stack quantum computer. In August 2024, SDT secured 10 billion KRW (approximately $7.5 million USD) in Pre-IPO investment from Shinhan Venture Investment to commercialize quantum computers, with milestones to develop a 64-qubit superconducting quantum computer by 2026 and photonic integrated circuit quantum computers by 2027. SDT is jointly developing quantum processing units based on silicon spin and diamond nitrogen-vacancy quantum technologies with Seoul National University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. The company is advancing South Korea’s National Strategy for Quantum Technology and building the domestic quantum ecosystem.

Stanford University

Stanford University is a private research university founded October 1 1891 located in Stanford California leading in quantum research through Q-FARM uniting experts from Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to advance quantum information science. Stanford promotes interdisciplinary collaboration integrating efforts from physics engineering and computer science departments. Stanford research advances quantum algorithms quantum cryptography quantum control quantum error correction and quantum hardware development essential for practical quantum computers. The university conducts quantum research spanning quantum optics superconducting qubits trapped ions quantum materials and quantum sensing. Stanford has produced numerous quantum computing spinouts and maintains partnerships with leading quantum companies serving quantum research community government agencies and industry partners.

TU Delft

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is a public technical university founded in 1842, located in Delft, Netherlands. TU Delft hosts QuTech, world-leading quantum research institute collaboration between TU Delft and TNO advancing quantum computing and quantum internet. QuTech develops quantum processors including spin qubits in silicon and superconducting qubits advancing scalable quantum computing. TU Delft researchers contribute to quantum algorithms quantum error correction quantum networks and quantum hardware. The university has produced quantum technology spinouts and maintains strong European quantum partnerships. TU Delft serves quantum research community through fundamental quantum research quantum education and technology transfer advancing quantum computing and quantum internet development supporting Netherlands and European quantum technology leadership.

Xanadu

In early 2025, Xanadu demonstrated Aurora, a significant advancement in photonic quantum computing featuring a modular and networked architecture that combines 35 photonic chips networked together via 13 kilometers of fiber optics to perform all essential functions for comprehensive quantum computing. In May 2025, Xanadu partnered with Applied Materials to develop high-volume fabrication processes for superconducting transition edge sensors, with teams planning to demonstrate a 300 mm platform by the end of 2025 to advance photonic quantum computing toward utility-scale applications. In March 2025, Xanadu and Corning partnered to develop low-loss optical fibre interconnects for photonic quantum computing chips, aiming to scale fault-tolerant quantum computers towards one million qubits. In June 2025, Xanadu opened a $10 million advanced photonic packaging facility in Toronto, Canada, to manufacture components for fault-tolerant quantum computers, addressing a critical gap in the Canadian quantum supply chain. In August 2025, Xanadu and HyperLight demonstrated waveguide losses below 2 dB/m in thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic chips.

Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university founded 1701 in New Haven Connecticut. Yale University has established itself as leader in quantum research fostering collaboration across physics engineering and computer science with Yale Quantum Institute serving as central hub bringing together researchers to explore quantum information processing quantum materials and quantum sensing. Yale conducts quantum research spanning superconducting qubits quantum processors quantum algorithms quantum error correction and quantum networks. Yale quantum programs have produced significant breakthroughs in superconducting quantum computing and quantum information processing. Yale serves quantum research community through fundamental quantum research quantum education programs and industry partnerships advancing quantum computing and quantum technologies.