Company · Lancaster
Quantum Base makes Q-ID, an anti-counterfeiting tag that anyone can check with a smartphone: the phone's flash excites atoms on the tag, which emit light in a pattern fixed by their exact arrangement, and the camera checks it against the tag's registered record within three seconds. The Lancaster University spin-out, built on Robert Young's research, joined London's AIM market as QUBE in April 2025, and its largest customer is an international security printer using Q-IDs on government tax stamps. In November 2025 it signed a 15-year, £9.4 million deal to tag artworks in a global art registry, the first use of its Q-RAND random number generator.
Quantum Base, based in Lancaster, is a company whose work covers quantum security and materials; it was founded in 2013. It is not yet linked to a UK project in this directory. People profiled here include Robert Young (Founder and Chief Scientist) and Tom Taylor (CEO).
Sources: Quantum Base · About Quantum Base · Admission to AIM (Quantum Base, April 2025) · Final results for the year to 30 April 2025 (Quantum Base, October 2025) · Partnership with Customer #2 (Quantum Base, November 2025)
No project in this directory lists Quantum Base as lead, partner or funder yet.
Recent articles from Quantum Zeitgeist that mention Quantum Base.
Entanglement distribution typically limits quantum network performance, forcing a trade-off between connection reliability and available resources. Now, a dual-connectivity architecture allows quantum users to link with two base stations, demonstrably exceeding the capabilities of single connections
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Integrating flexible quantum error correction and entanglement purification significantly boosts quantum teleportation reliability.
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