Inside Quantum Technology - Get The Latest Quantum News & Events Here

The Quantum Dragon has moved into a new cave near IQT headquarters. Instead of originating IQT news on Substack and then repeating it on insidequantumtechnology.com, it will now originate on insidequantumtechnology.com. This applies to IQT Sunday Edition, Tuesday news exclusives (articles/podcasts), Thursday newsletters, and Saturday event news.

This week’s IQT News:

• Corporate, Institutional, & Individual Leaders Driving Growth of Quantum Finance
• EeroQ went gold!
• IQT Sunday Edition
• Flattening Quantum Circuits: “Planus!”
• Corporate and Government Early Adopters in Quantum Chemicals & Quantum Life Science

This week’s The Premium Quantum Dragon (Substack):

• QuantrolOx’s Quantum EDGE Academy
• Bloq Quantum
• Youshu Quantum
• Infleqtion’s CEO Matt Kinsella said what?!?!?
• Quantum Twitter is… slowly… returning?

This week’s Friends of The Quantum Dragon (inline):

• QuSecure is a Gold STEVIE® Winner by Rebecca Krauthamer, Co-Founder and CEO of QuSecure
• PsiQuantum, Brookhaven Lab Partner to Accelerate Quantum Application Development Using Construct Software Tool by a PsiQuantum spokesperson

In this edition:

• The Caretaker of The Quantum Dragon
• Yuval Boger can quote me on that.
• Not Just Mobile, a “Walking” Quantum Computer
• QuSecure is a Gold STEVIE® Winner
• We have to describe the Quantum world in classical language
• Physics-Informed Neural Networks Don’t Know the Physics.
• This isn’t what you think it is.
• Classiq’s $10,000 in Prizes
• Quantum Art is flattening quantum circuits: “Planus!”
• Improving Student Self-Confidence in Quantum Computing
• Time Travelers Converge on Caltech’s Campus
• PsiQuantum, Brookhaven Lab Partner to Accelerate Quantum Application Development Using Construct Software Tool
• Quantum Bites with a Neutrino
• But he doesn’t look happy about it….
• Quantum Noise Detector

The Caretaker of The Quantum Dragon

The Caretaker of The Quantum Dragon

I’m so vain, I probably think this item is about me… but it isn’t. This is about Inside Quantum Technology allowing “The Caretaker of The Quantum Dragon,” and variations thereof, to be an official title. That said, this item is a little bit about me, since I’ll be speaking at Q+AI 2026 (3.0): Uncovering the Coming Wave of Quantum + AI, to be held October 25-27, 2026, in New York City.

Yuval Boger’s “Quantum Bits”

Yuval Boger can quote me on that.

As I got to the “Hybrid Computing” chapter of Yuval Boger’s “Quantum Bits,” it finally hit me that the bottom of each chapter-introducing page includes a famous quote. If you’re a recipient of QuEra’s calendar, you’ll notice the same thing in the bottom right corner of each month. I hadn’t previously attributed that to Mr. Boger, but now I do.

Not Just Mobile, a “Walking” Quantum Computer

Bloomberg’s “The Dream of Quantum Computing Is Both Dead and Alive,” authored by Mark Bergen, is paywalled. But if you stop the page while it’s loading, you can see the image of a superconducting system’s chandelier with someone directly behind it. Nothing above the waist is visible, so it looks like the chandelier has hips and legs.

QuSecure is a Gold STEVIE^® Winner

Following the announcement that QuSecure was a Cybersecurity Solution Gold STEVIE^® Winner at the 23rd Annual International Business Awards, Rebecca Krauthamer, Co-Founder and CEO of QuSecure, provided this unique comment:

“These recent successes and recognitions reflect a critical evolution in the market that we’ve seen coming. Government and enterprise customers are deploying crypto-agile infrastructure at scale and seeing measurable results. Post-quantum migration is happening now. The urgency is operational, particularly across regulated industries, and our growth reflects that shift. We intend to keep leading as crypto-agility becomes a universal requirement.”

Rebecca Krauthamer will be speaking at PQC+IQT, which is coming to New York City October 25-26.

We have to describe the Quantum world in classical language

Samreet Dhillon shared an illustrated, long-form version of one of my favorite adages of Prof. Richard Feynman: “If you cannot explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it.” Mr. Dhillon, who quotes Prof. Niels Bohr instead, deep dives, pardon the pun if you read the article, both the necessity and the challenge of actually doing that.

Physics-Informed Neural Networks Don’t Know the Physics.

Hamed Samsami’s article is an interesting read, even though it’s not about quantum, since I encounter the adjective “physics-informed” from time to time, and it’s about something quantum. If you think about how many things are quantum but don’t need to be, especially in regard to algorithms, I can imagine things similarly being “physics-informed” as a buzzword.

“Crucially the researchers invoke no quantum weirdness in tissue.”

This isn’t what you think it is.

I steer wide and clear when I read or hear certain words, but “The curious symmetry between quantum error correction and the brain” isn’t what you think it is. Despite the title, this is an analogy of roles, not of mechanisms, and the author(s), or at least the reviewer(s) of the author(s), added some language to help make that clear.

Classiq’s $10,000 in Prizes

The Classiq Quantum Circuit Challenge is underway, and you’ve got until September 30, 2026, to try to claim one of five $2,000 cash prizes. There’s a leaderboard showing the top 30 participants at any given time, so you can see how close you are to cashing in. And I must say that I’ve never seen a challenge quite like this before.

Image generated by OpenAI’s DALL·E and Google’s language model AI.

Quantum Art is flattening quantum circuits: “Planus!”

He didn’t want to do it, but Harry Potter is an old friend of The Quantum Dragon, and fire-breathing dragons can be rather persuasive. You see, after reading “Quantum Art Validates a Scalable Path to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing Using Multi-Qubit Gates,” The Quantum Dragon wanted to focus on something that’s not obvious from the title: significant circuit compression….

Improving Student Self-Confidence in Quantum Computing

Two things are funny about the AAPT-published paper “Improving Student Self-Confidence in Quantum Computing with the Qubit Touchdown Board Game”: 1) The authors felt the need to specify in the abstract that the game refers to “(American) football.” And 2) if you’re not a member, pay-per-view access to a review of a free game costs $40.00.

Time Travelers Converge on Caltech’s Campus

Caltech’s 150-person-strong Time Travel Gathering, hosted by TACIT (Caltech’s theater arts group) and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech (IQIM), mixed Back to the Future with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and probably a few other franchises that I don’t recognize. Sith Lord Jar Jar Binks was the emcee.

PsiQuantum, Brookhaven Lab Partner to Accelerate Quantum Application Development Using Construct Software Tool

Following the announcement that PsiQuantum and Brookhaven National Laboratory will use PsiQuantum’s Construct software to support BNL scientists researching new algorithms and scientific applications for the first generation of fault-tolerant quantum computers, a PsiQuantum spokesperson provided this unique comment:

“Utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers will only deliver on their fullest potential if we are prepared to make the most of them once they’re deployed. That’s why PsiQuantum’s new partnership with Brookhaven Lab is so important.”

Quantum Bites with a Neutrino

The folks over at the Fermilab Education Office have started chatchitting with neutrinos, and they want you to join them. I chat with a dragon, so who am I to judge? And for the record, The Quantum Dragon isn’t impressed by the ability of neutrinos to go through walls; he just melts the walls and then continues on his merry way. This link may require an X account.

But he doesn’t look happy about it….

Orange Quantum Systems announced that IQM has joined its OrangeQS MAX Partnership Program, but Juha Hassel, IQM’s VP of Quantum Technologies, sure doesn’t seem too thrilled about it. May I suggest a smiling photo the next time? The Quantum Dragon knows some bards who tell hilarious stories; you’ll just need a photographer nearby.

Image generated by an AI model provided by Microsoft Copilot.

Quantum Noise Detector

Alan Ho and Prof. Michael Biercuk inspired the Resuscitated Quantum Bullshit Detector, but the original(?) has resurfaced on Bluesky. It’s back to reposting a simple “bullshit” or “not bullshit,” so The Quantum Dragon will continue to monitor for challenges, controversies, and debates under this new name from Dr. Bob Sutor.

• Dr. Michaela Eichinger says it all in her opening line, “IBM, I love you, but this is not quantum advantage.“
• Prof. Alan Woodward uses “Quantum Computers Will Never Break RSA, Says Oxford Physicist. But I Say Migrate Anyway” to hedge against Prof. Tim Palmer’s argument that there is a fundamental ceiling of useful qubits that sits below what is needed to crack RSA.