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Q-Rated Ep. 2 is out. Our short series on the quantum news for government + HPC leaders.
This one: DOE's milestone-based Quantum Genesis program, states racing to match federal dollars, and the G7 planning for a post-fault-tolerant world.
Watch: youtu.be/o9U4PA4cjXc
A new Harvard-led preprint reports a magic state factory for high-rate qLDPC codes. CCZ states at 10^-9 LER at a physical error rate of 10^-3. This is 10-40x lower space-time cost than state-of-the-art magic state generation methods.
arxiv.org/abs/2610.10731
An AI agent now tunes our lasers. Claude, working with @Anthropic, tuned 12 interdependent parameters on a QuEra testbed, found a ~220 kHz resonance the manual tune missed and cut it ~1000x. 19-hour soak, zero unattended lock drops. buff.ly/NBgJHKR
ALT Image from QuEra's story on AI agent laser calibration
Libra, QuEra's fault-tolerant system, is slated for Amazon Braket in 2028. Boards deciding on access, talent and vendors now will be ahead of those waiting for a finished machine. We'll be at the NACD Directors Summit in DC, Oct 11-14. Meet us: buff.ly/NhIagHE
QuEra CEO Andy Ory at Quantum World Congress: classical computers still handle most use cases better and cheaper. Quantum today is preparation. The date: Libra on Amazon Braket in 2028, ~1M logical ops at 10⁻⁶ error. Keynote: buff.ly/TYW1Nqt
New Q-Rated: the DOE's Quantum Genesis program now pays on milestones, starting at 10 logical qubits, not upfront grants. New Mexico, Illinois, and Tennessee are already matching funds. The G7 is planning for a post-fault-tolerant world. 6 min: buff.ly/S5ephag
New paper: bivariate bicycle codes cut error-correction overhead, but need long-range qubit links fixed chips can't cheaply give. Rice and Northeastern built Park-n-Ride, mapping BB codes onto neutral-atom hardware that moves qubits instead. buff.ly/qnlyDdh
QuEra co-founder Mikhail Lukin was named a 2026 Academic Pioneer in Quantum at Quantum World Congress. He and co-founder Vladan Vuletic still work the qubits day to day, the reason QuEra's shorthand is more science, less fiction. Congrats, Misha.
October birthdays in quantum physics: Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer, who showed in 1927 that electrons diffract like waves, plus Niels Bohr and Felix Bloch. Also born in October: Chandrasekhar, C.N. Yang, Ginzburg, Gianotti and Sean Carroll.
ALT Quantum Greats slide: Clinton Davisson, b. 1881. Turned the bold idea of matter waves into measured fact.
ALT Quantum Greats slide: Lester Germer, b. 1896. Demonstrated electron diffraction, confirming matter waves.
ALT Quantum Greats slide: Niels Bohr, b. 1885. Taught us how to think about quantum physics.
ALT Quantum Greats slide: Felix Bloch, b. 1905. Showed how quantum mechanics explains electrons in solids.
QuEra is the anchor tenant of the Roadrunner Quantum Lab, which opened this week in Albuquerque with $25 million from New Mexico.
It will be used for photonics and optics testing, plus on-site classical computing for hybrid quantum-classical work.
Scissors down. Doors open.
Quantum is moving from 'one day' to day one. On NYSE Wired, what that takes: fault tolerance, Libra on AWS in 2028, quantum alongside HPC. @bjbaumann2014, @Furrier, @theCUBE, @GemmaAllenSays, @DVellante buff.ly/JCKjQdA
Some battery materials have real potential. Understanding their quantum behavior is the hard part. We're inviting research teams to bring their toughest questions to application co-design for Libra, our fault-tolerant machine coming 2028. buff.ly/SPxm2jA
Quantum is moving from physics labs into the machine room, and the metrics change: floor space, power, integration. QuEra traps rubidium atoms with laser tweezers, runs at room temperature, and fits in about two dining tables. Some rivals need football-field cryostats.
QuEra's Bloqade is now a full neutral-atom SDK. One line to start: pip install bloqade. squin kernel language, targets for Aquila (analog) and Gemini (digital), honest hardware simulators, and fault-tolerant tooling. Built alongside the hardware. buff.ly/K0fZRk2
Governments are changing how they fund quantum. DOE's Quantum Genesis pays on milestones, not grants: earn as you validate, from 10 logical qubits toward 100+. NM, IL, and TN are matching federal dollars in weeks. Yuval Boger explains in Q-Rated Ep 2: youtu.be/o9U4PA4cjXc
We're at @QuantumWorldCongress this week. Andy Ory, Yuval Boger, and Nate Gemelke take the stage on QuEra's path to fault tolerance, scaling hardware, and supply chain resilience. Grab time with the team: buff.ly/0sngbHP
The Apollo 11 computer had ~72KB of memory and still landed on the moon. It wasn't written in Python. Quantum is at that spot now: full-stack optimization on the qubits we have, co-designing algorithms and hardware for 2028. Constraints are the discipline.
QuEra + @HPE are bringing neutral-atom, fault-tolerant quantum computing into on-prem HPC on HPE Cray. National labs and enterprises get quantum next to their classical supercomputers, cloud or on-prem. The future of compute is both. buff.ly/yN3V0y6
New Mexico just tied state matching funds to DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Stage C, on top of $450M+ already invested. Benchmarking is no longer just technical. "Who checks your numbers" is becoming an economic question. QuEra is glad to be in the NM ecosystem.
Penicillin cured infections and bred antibiotic resistance. One discovery, both outcomes. Quantum has that shape: it could model new materials and break today's encryption. Two jobs now, not later. QuEra CCO @thequbitguy in Fast Company: buff.ly/RDXDor1
