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FROM THE EDITOR.

For the week of Halloween (and my birthday), you might expect scary news.

Sorry to disappoint.

We have lots of good stuff to discuss this week — from NVIDIA’s integration to a new documentary that covers quantum computing yesterday, today and…

Pausing for cinematic effect…

Tomorrow!

You can check out below for a link to the trailer, but this has been a labor-of-love for the team over the past year and a chance to show quantum’s impact not just on science and scientists, but on the real world (and you and me).

We also want to engage in a bit of a dive into the NVIDIA news. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced that the company has developed what they're calling NVQLink™, which will couple GPU computing with quantum processors with the ultimate aim to create quantum supercomputers.

Have a great weekend!

— Matt, Chief Content Officer at The Quantum Insider

INSIDER BRIEF.

• Infleqtion, Royal Navy Sets Course For GPS-Free Nav

• NQCP And Japan’s Q-STAR Advance Industry Collaboration

• Get Ready For Quantum Ready

• Experts Say Asia’s Financial System Exposed to Quantum Risk

• BioInnovation Institute Opens Applications for 2026 Venture Lab Program

• Pakistan, China to Deepen Quantum Technology Collaboration

• French National Quantum Update: October 2025

• Nanoacademic And Kothar Computing Partner

ANALYST NOTES.

The Noteworthy & Nuanced

We’ve secretly discovered time travel - on Monday IBM will be publishing a research paper showing that it has successfully run a real-time quantum error-handling algorithm on AMD FPGA chips. The algorithm runs on affordable, widely available hardware instead of expensive, custom-built systems. This milestone brings IBM closer to its goal of developing the Starling quantum computer by 2029 and places it a year ahead of schedule on its quantum computing roadmap.

Quandela has delivered Lucy, a 12-qubit photonic quantum computer, to France’s Très Grand Centre de calcul (TGCC) as part of the EuroQCS-France consortium led by GENCI and funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Built entirely within the EU using mostly European components, Lucy will be integrated with the Joliot-Curie supercomputer to support hybrid HPC-quantum workloads in optimization, chemistry, and machine learning.

Google Quantum AI has yet again done something thousands of times faster than a supercomputer. Using its 65-qubit superconducting processor, the team performed a complex physics simulation 13,000 times faster than the Frontier supercomputer, employing a new “Quantum Echoes” algorithm to measure quantum interference effects known as OTOC(2). The experiment, published in Nature, highlights quantum capabilities that classical computers cannot efficiently replicate. — Alan Kanapin, Analyst at The Quantum Insider

The Research Rundown

Check out this week’s handpicked quantum research. These are studies headed for real-world impact: improving accuracy, reducing latency, using fewer resources, or solving problems that classical methods struggle with. These are early developments, but they hint at where quantum might earn its keep.

• Researchers from the Institute of High Energy Physics and Peking University have developed the first quantum simulation framework for sphaleron dynamics, using a lattice-based quantum rotor model to study baryon number–violating processes that may explain the Universe’s matter–antimatter imbalance on near-term quantum hardware.
  

• Researchers from BMW Group, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Saarland University, and RWTH Aachen have proposed the first fault-tolerant quantum algorithm for topology optimization, using Grover’s search and quantum linear algebra subroutines to design lightweight, high-strength structures efficiently.

• Researchers from the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore have introduced the first fully coherent quantum neural network framework demonstrating that deep learning inference can run entirely on quantum hardware with exponential or polynomial speedups over classical methods.
  
  — Cierra Choucair, Journalist & Analyst at The Quantum Insider

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INSIDER SPOTLIGHT: NVIDIA Launches NVQLink to Bridge Quantum and Classical Supercomputing

➡️ NVIDIA has unveiled NVQLink, an open system architecture that directly connects quantum processors to GPU-based supercomputers.
➡️ The interconnect enables real-time control, calibration, and error correction for hybrid quantum–classical workloads.
➡️ Developed with input from nine U.S. national laboratories, NVQLink creates a standardized bridge between quantum processors, control systems, and classical accelerators.
➡️ The platform aligns with NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q framework, allowing researchers to develop and scale algorithms spanning CPUs, GPUs, and QPUs.
➡️ With participation from 17 quantum hardware companies and five controller builders, NVQLink positions NVIDIA at the center of the emerging hybrid-computing ecosystem.age — measurable, physically interpretable results that advance experimental science.

Analyst Commentary

A Quantum Rosetta Stone?

Maybe.

But, whatever your analogy du jour, NVIDIA’s NVQLink is an obvious sign of convergence between the two fastest-moving frontiers in computation — accelerated classical computing and quantum hardware. And it’s continuing a trend. Last week. Google showed how quantum processors can be tools for science. Now, NVIDIA’s announcement offers one more step toward treating them as components within an integrated computing infrastructure.

At its core, NVQLink solves one of hybrid computing’s toughest coordination problems: the need for sub-microsecond feedback between noisy qubits and classical control hardware. Today’s quantum processors depend on vast classical resources to correct errors, stabilize states, and orchestrate experiments. Until now, those links have been proprietary, latency-heavy, and fragmented. NVQLink proposes a shared language — that’s the “Rosetta Stone” Jensen Huang described — between the quantum and classical worlds.

The architecture’s technical and even political symbolism shouldn’t be understated. It embeds quantum computing within the existing supercomputing ecosystem rather than setting it apart. By opening the specification and collaborating with 17 hardware builders — including Quantinuum, IonQ, Pasqal, QuEra, Oxford Quantum Circuits, Rigetti, IQM, Atom Computing, and Infleqtion — NVIDIA converts what was once a collection of disparate hardware efforts into a cohesive platform conversation.

The involvement of national laboratories from Brookhaven to Oak Ridge might be a nod to Washington’s strategic posture: hybrid quantum–classical computing is now treated as a continuation of the United States’ exascale strategy, not a successor to it. The Department of Energy’s framing — maintaining leadership in high-performance computing by “building the bridge” to quantum — signals that public-sector and industrial agendas are aligning around the same technical interface.

Practically, NVQLink’s promise lies in orchestration. Researchers will be able to run parts of an algorithm on classical accelerators while offloading specific quantum subroutines to QPUs, all within the CUDA-Q environment. That unity reduces development friction and lets institutions leverage existing HPC clusters instead of standing up bespoke quantum stacks.

Still, we need to set expectations because the path from interconnect to impact is likely in its first stages. NVQLink is an enabling layer, not an end-use capability. Its value depends on quantum hardware reaching the fidelity and scale necessary to justify tight coupling with GPUs. Yet even in its early form, the standardization of data paths and control channels represents a milestone in the evolution from experimental quantum devices to industrial computing components.

But the emphasis is in the right place. Don’t think of quantum computation as some weird, esoteric box sitting isolated in a lab, but as a integrated piece of tomorrow’s computational stack that can serve as a key partner in calculations that could make the world a better place.

DATA SPOTLIGHT.

PacketLight Networks and NEC demonstrated quantum key distribution over a 400G dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) network using a dual-fiber setup. They integrated NEC’s QKD system with PacketLight’s PL-4000M 600G Muxponder, achieving 100% data throughput and low latency, verified via a 100GbE tester. The QKD ran over a dedicated parallel fiber, maintaining quantum signal integrity. The result: a cost-effective, scalable quantum-safe model with zero performance tradeoffs on existing high-capacity infrastructure.

INDUSTRY HIGHLIGHTS.

🥼 Stony Brook University has opened the Quantum Design Teaching and Materials Discovery Laboratory, a new facility that enhances undergraduate quantum and materials physics education through hands-on learning.

🤝 Pakistan and China have signed an MoU to collaborate on quantum technologies as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’s (CPEC-II) innovation-focused phase. The partnership includes plans to establish Pakistan’s National Centre for Quantum Computing and develop a proposed Quantum Valley.

🇪🇺 The European Commission has announced plans for the Scaleup Europe Fund, a multi-billion-euro investment vehicle to back late-stage deep tech companies across sectors such as AI, quantum, semiconductors, robotics, energy, space, biotech, and advanced materials.

🌊 Infleqtion has completed the first-ever deployment of a quantum optical atomic clock on an underwater autonomous vehicle, integrating its Tiqker clock into the Royal Navy’s Excalibur (XCal) testbed submarine. The trial, conducted with MSubs, demonstrated precise timing and navigation in GPS-denied environments, validating Tiqker’s ruggedized performance.

🇰🇷 QuantWare has expanded into Seoul, South Korea, marking a major step in its global growth and solidifying its role as the country’s largest supplier of quantum processors. The company’s hardware already powers systems like the ETRI quantum computer, and its new presence will support South Korea’s national plan.

🗾 The Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP) has signed an MoU with Japan’s Quantum Strategic industry Alliance for Revolution (Q-STAR) to advance industry-led quantum computing collaboration and commercialization. The partnership will leverage Japan’s semiconductor and packaging expertise to enhance NQCP’s Pathfinder Framework.

🇮🇷 Iran has announced plans to establish its first Quantum Communication Laboratory and Atomic Clock Laboratory to advance national capabilities in quantum communication, sensing, and timekeeping.

🚀 SemiQon is developing quantum hardware technologies for space exploration with support from the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC) Finland. Building on its cryogenic CMOS transistor, the partnership provides SemiQon with ESA’s technical expertise, equity-free funding, and networks to accelerate applications in space instrumentation, communications, and exploration.

🖥️ Nanoacademic Technologies and Kothar Computing have partnered to create the world’s first Quantum Electronic Design Automation (EDA) suite, combining Nanoacademic’s TCAD modeling tools with Kothar’s many-body solvers to simulate and design quantum chips.

👩‍💻 P33 and the National Quantum Algorithm Center have launched the Grand Challenges program to fund postdoctoral research developing real-world quantum applications in Illinois. Starting with two $125,000 awards, the initiative requires collaboration between Illinois universities, quantum companies, and industry partners.

🌐 The Quantum Internet Alliance has launched the 2025 Quantum Internet Application Challenge, inviting global participants to develop innovative use cases for the quantum internet using QIA’s SquidASM simulator. Submissions are due by December 21, 2025, with the top prize offering a research visit or internship worth up to €5,000 at partner institutions.

EVENTS.

Nov. 3-4 -- Chicago Quantum Summit will bring together global leaders in quantum science and engineering, hosted by the Chicago Quantum Exchange

Nov. 4-5 -- QED-C Annual Meeting will gather global quantum leaders to discuss industry challenges, encourage collaboration, and shape strategies.

Nov. 6 -- Quantum computing with atomic qubit arrays with Mark Saffman - University of Wisconsin and Infleqtion.

Nov. 10-12 -- European Quantum Technologies Conference 2025 will be held at Øksnehallen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Nov. 12-14 -- Quantum Machines, the leading provider of advanced hybrid quantum-classical control solutions, will host AQC25, the second Adaptive Quantum Circuits Conference.

Nov. 16-21 -- SuperComputing 2025 (SC25) will be held n St. Louis, USA. SC25 is an international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis.

Dec. 1-4 -- QUEST-IS 2025 Quantum Engineering Sciences and Technologies for Industry and Services From Quantum Engineering to Applications for Citizens. EDF Lab, Paris-Saclay, France.

Dec. 3-5 -- Quantum Education Summit 2025 will advance accessible, inclusive quantum education through keynotes, workshops, and a collaborative white paper on workforce development and policy alignment.

Dec. 9-11 -- Q2B 2025 Silicon Valley Q2B is back for the eighth year in a row, connecting the international quantum community computing ecosystems. The event will feature top academics, industry end users, government representatives and quantum computing vendors from all over the world.

Dec. 17-18 -- Science Diplomacy - Bridging divides in a fragmented world will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference explores how science diplomacy can bridge divides and promote innovation, competitiveness, and international cooperation.

Jan 13–14, 2026 -- Quantum.Tech: Commercial Applications of Quantum Computing, Communications and Sensing, Doha, Qatar

January 27 and 28, 2026 -- Qubits 2026 D-Wave is bringing its annual user conference, Qubits, to Boca Raton, Florida. The event will be held at The Boca Raton resort.

April 27-30 -- The Quantum Matter International Conference & Expo (QUANTUMatter2026) will take place at the Barceló Sants Hotel in Barcelona. The conference to foster the incubation of new ideas & collaborations at the forefront of quantum technologies, emerging quantum materials and novel generations of quantum communication protocols, quantum sensing and quantum simulation.