University · London
Imperial's Centre for Cold Matter built Aphrodite, a transportable accelerometer that uses matter-wave interference to navigate ships without satellite signals, and the Royal Navy trialled it at sea on the XV Patrick Blackett. The college also leads AION, a UK atom interferometry collaboration hunting gravitational waves and dark matter; in June 2026 the team reported in Nature that comparing two strontium interferometers cancels shared noise. Imperial is a partner in the IQN, QuSIT and QEPNT research hubs, and its QuEST centre links quantum groups across departments.
Imperial College London is a university in London with nine quantum projects in this directory. It is a partner in 9 UK projects, including QCi3, IQN and QEPNT.
Sources: Quantum navigation: transportable systems (Imperial College London) · Imperial-led AION prototype advances quantum gravitational wave detection (Quantum Zeitgeist) · New hub focussing on quantum sensing, imaging and timing (University of Birmingham) · Heriot-Watt University to lead UK quantum internet research (Heriot-Watt University) · Glasgow to lead quantum navigation hub (University of Glasgow) · Centre for Quantum Engineering, Science and Technology (Imperial College London)
QCi3
The national research hub for quantum computing, led by the University of Oxford. It works on scalable and networked quantum computers.
Role: Partner
Funding: £21.9m
Themes: Computing, Networks, Software and algorithms
IQN
A national research hub building quantum networks, from local links to satellite connections. Heriot-Watt University leads it.
Role: Partner
Funding: £21.9m
Themes: Networks, Communications
QEPNT
A national research hub for quantum position, navigation and timing, led by the University of Glasgow. It aims to reduce reliance on satellite signals such as GPS.
Role: Partner
Funding: £21.9m
Themes: Timing and navigation, Sensing, Defence and security
QuSIT
A national research hub for quantum sensing, imaging and timing, led by the University of Birmingham.
Role: Partner
Funding: £22m
Themes: Sensing, Imaging, Timing and navigation
A Universal Quantum-led consortium building a trapped-ion quantum computer that can correct its own errors, with Rolls-Royce as end user.
Role: Partner
Funding: £7.5m
Themes: Computing
An ORCA-led consortium that designed and demonstrated how a quantum computer could sit inside a data centre alongside classical systems.
Role: Partner
Themes: Computing, Communications, Networks
QuantIC
The phase 2 national hub for quantum imaging, led by the University of Glasgow. Its grant ran from December 2019 to May 2025.
Role: Partner
Funding: £25m
Themes: Imaging, Sensing
QCS
The phase 2 national hub for quantum computing and simulation, led by the University of Oxford. It ran from 2019 to 2024.
Role: Partner
Funding: £27.3m
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms
The phase 2 national hub for quantum sensors and clocks, led by the University of Birmingham. It ran from 2019 to 2024.
Role: Partner
Funding: £28.6m
Themes: Sensing, Timing and navigation
Recent articles from Quantum Zeitgeist that mention Imperial College London.
Vlatko Vedral is Professor of Quantum Information Science at the University of Oxford, a Serbian-born physicist who has spent three decades asking what entanglement is and what it can do. Entanglement is the link that lets two particles share one quantum state. As a PhD student in London he helped f
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Accuracy reached a perfect score of 1. 0 using a new quantum machine learning framework, contrasting sharply with its initial value of zero and exceeding the 0. 76 achieved by the standard version.
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A £12.6 million program will utilize a University of Manchester instrument to implant individual atoms into materials with 20-nanometre precision, advancing quantum tech & sensors.
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Manchester leads a £12.6M UK program advancing photonic & quantum technologies, including ultra-sensitive quantum sensors.
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Research, commercial and investment relationships, by year. Partners with a profile here are linked.
HSBC Research 2026
World Economic Forum Strategic 2025
Standard Chartered Research 2024
Recorded on Standard Chartered's profile.
Quantinuum Research 2022
Google Quantum AI Research 2021
University College London Research 2021
Microsoft Quantum Research 2020
EPSRC Commercial 2019
Chosen by shared specialisms, then location and type.
Company · Nottingham · 3 shared specialisms
University · London · 2 shared specialisms
Company · London · 2 shared specialisms
Company · London · 2 shared specialisms
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