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University of Illinoisの研究チームが発見したダイヤモンドカラーセンター「IL1」は、格子振動からほぼ完全に隔離され、室温で0.31nm幅の極めて狭い発光線と1秒あたり1300万個以上の明るい単一光子放出を実現した。これにより、量子ネットワークや量子通信向けに冷却不要の安定した光子源として再評価される可能性が高まっている。

Imperial College researchers demonstrated wide-field quantum imaging with undetected photons in the mid-infrared, cutting noise by ~100x and...

A University of Osaka team demonstrated the first 10-channel chip-scale photonic interface for neutral-atom qubit arrays, solving the spacing mismatch...

CSIRO's quantum battery prototype confirms the scaling hypothesis: larger systems charge faster via superabsorption, achieving femtosecond full...

• Six calls target trapped-ion, superconducting, and neutral-atom platforms with €20M each to build 1,000+ qubit systems
• QKD systems receive €24M to...

QuantrolOx, the University of Oxford spin-out behind the Quantum EDGE qubit control platform, partners with QURECA to launch Quantum EDGE Academy. The...

Smith+Nephew and Imperial College London launch a five-year robotic surgery research center inside the Hamlyn Centre, targeting pin-free tracking...

• Loughborough partners with Haatch to create LVIN, linking university spinouts with alumni investors for pre-seed and seed rounds
• Network targets...

London-based Embedd closed a $2.7M pre-seed round led by Seedcamp to speed chip integration for physical AI.

• Platform: Uses digital twins and AI...

Vector Photonics, a 2020 University of Glasgow spin-out, is commercializing PCSEL lasers to overcome optical interconnect limits in AI data centers....

Quantum computing has entered its practical phase through hybrid systems integrating QPUs with CPUs, GPUs, HPC, and quantum-inspired algorithms—much...

NORDEEP's 5th Anniversary Edition positions Espoo as the go-to hub for early-stage Nordic deep tech deal flow, connecting 200+ investors directly with...

Century Health closed a $5 million oversubscribed seed round for its AI-enabled real-world evidence platform, led by Origin Ventures. The Scottish deal marks an early-stage healthtech/medtech AI opportunity worth tracking for deal flow.

Singular Photonics closed an oversubscribed $2.15M round led by ACF Investors after doubling 2025 sales, backed by Renishaw collaboration and ex-Arm...

Electrical interconnects face fundamental limits in bandwidth, latency and energy efficiency for AI and HPC workloads due to resistive losses and...

University of Vienna work reveals that ac-coupled readout memory effects—not just pulse pile-up—drive stochastic baseline fluctuations that degrade...

TUM and MCQST researchers developed photonic crystal waveguides that suppress unwanted frequencies, boosting desired single-photon output to 72% (vs....

Smith+Nephew is embedding its engineers directly inside Imperial's Hamlyn Centre to co-develop musculoskeletal surgical robotics, marking the...

University of Geneva researchers stored entanglement across 16340 temporal modes in a 171Yb3+:Y2SiO5 crystal quantum memory with 250MHz bandwidth,...

• Horizon lump sum pays fixed amounts per work package for R&D projects, cutting all cost reporting, timesheets and financial audits
• Scaleup Europe...