Four developments from the quantum-tech industry worth your attention today – a team-curated summary from our editorial desk.
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to Build TangleLab, a Hybrid Quantum-Classical Supercomputer
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, will build TangleLab, a hybrid quantum-classical supercomputing testbed backed by a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The system pairs a 9-qubit Novera quantum processing unit from Rigetti Computing with high-performance computing, storage, and networking hardware from HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), giving researchers, students, and educators hands-on access to an integrated quantum-classical environment. Construction is set to begin at PSC’s new data center on September 1, 2026, with full operations expected in 2027.
Source: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
SES and Airbus Break Ground on EAGLE-1’s Quantum-Safe Satellite Ground Station
SES and Airbus Netherlands B.V. have signed a ground lease with the Dutch municipality of Noordwijk to build a dedicated optical ground station for EAGLE-1, Europe’s first satellite demonstrating end-to-end quantum key distribution (QKD). Located at the NL Space Campus beside the European Space Agency (ESA)’s technical center ESTEC, the station will use a precision-tracking telescope and adaptive optics to receive quantum-safe encryption keys over a laser link rather than radio frequencies. EAGLE-1 runs as a public-private partnership between SES, ESA, and the European Commission (EC), with prime contractor TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) delivering the station’s optics.
Source: SES
Seoul National University and University of Seoul Unveil a Programmable Photonic Chip That Slows Light on Demand
Researchers at Seoul National University (SNU), working with a team at the University of Seoul, have developed a programmable photonic integrated circuit that can delay, synchronize, and reconfigure optical signals in real time, instead of relying on the fixed-function designs used until now. The chip builds on coupled-resonator-induced transparency (CRIT), treating two optical states as a single tunable design parameter so the same silicon-nitride device can be reprogrammed for different delay times and frequency ranges rather than requiring a new chip for each function. The team, whose work was published in the journal Advanced Science, says the approach could eventually cut power consumption in AI data centers and serve as a building block for optical computing and quantum communication technologies.
Source: EurekAlert (Seoul National University College of Engineering)
Quantum Elements Launches Orbit, an Automated Error-Suppression Tool for IBM’s Qiskit
Quantum Elements has released Orbit, an error-suppression tool now available as a Qiskit Function in IBM‘s Qiskit Functions Catalog. Orbit combines dynamical decoupling, hardware-aware transpilation, and measurement error mitigation into a single automated workflow, removing the need for developers to hand-tune noise suppression circuit by circuit, and it works with dynamic circuits and mid-circuit measurements that earlier tools handled poorly. In testing, the company reported that Orbit more than doubled the number of usable qubits in a quantum Fourier transform and helped sustain 95.3% logical fidelity in an experiment using a [[4,2,2]] error-detection code.
Source: The Quantum Insider
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