Fujitsu today announced a collaboration with New Mexico to establish a quantum computing research center in New Mexico.

The center will conduct advanced research spanning quantum computing hardware, software, algorithms, and theory, while supporting education and workforce-development initiatives designed to expand the quantum talent pipeline and strengthen collaboration across industry, academia, government, and the research community.

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Fujitsu today announced that it has developed the world’s first working prototype of a diamond-spin quantum computer incorporating tin-vacancy (SnV) centers into photonic integrated circuits. The prototype can be operated at -271.6°C, higher than the typical operating temperature of superconducting quantum computers (-273.13°C) and Fujitsu has demonstrated in a test environment that it can be utilized via the Fujitsu Hybrid Quantum Computing Platform without any additional specialist knowledge. This development represents an important milestone toward realizing a modular architecture, one of the most promising approaches for scaling quantum computers, due to its high fidelity and efficient optical connectivity.

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The prototype is based on the results of joint research started in 2020 by Fujitsu, Delft University of Technology, and QuTech, a world-leading quantum technology research institute and part of TU Delft.

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Fujitsu is set to develop a prototype of a multi-module diamond-spin quantum computer by 2027. In addition, Fujitsu will begin developing of technologies to integrate diamond-spin approach with superconducting approach, driving progress toward achieving large-scale quantum computers.This initiative comes as part of Fujitsu’s quantum roadmap, which outlines company’s aim to realize practical quantum computing by 2030.

JIJ Inc. and ORCA Computing, in collaboration with bp and the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), released a white paper demonstrating that hybrid quantum–classical optimisation is moving closer to commercial relevance for one of the energy sector’s most complex operational challenges.

For further details, please refer to the white paper, “Benchmarking Hybrid Approaches to the Unit Commitment Problem”.

The study benchmarks a hybrid quantum-classical approach to the Unit Commitment Problem (UCP), the large-scale optimisation task of determining how and when power plants should operate to meet energy demand at the lowest cost while maintaining system reliability. The results suggest that hybrid quantum-classical optimisation is moving beyond proof-of-concept and towards practical industrial application in energy systems.

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