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1. Easily Control Quantum Experiments Using Software 7/15/2026

   Quantum technologies are considered one of the key technologies of the future. Before they can be used in communications technologies, high-performance computers, medicine, energy, or mobility, they must go through many stages of development, such as experiments.

2. New Atomic Trap Boosts Quantum Performance By Utilising Surface Forces 7/15/2026

   Researchers at HU have developed a new method for trapping and controlling atoms. This has significantly improved the atoms’ ability to store quantum information – an important step forward for future quantum technologies.

3. UB Physicist Receives Over $1M In Federal Grants For Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing Research 7/15/2026

   A UB physicist has received two U.S. Department of Defense grants totaling $1.1M to study the quantum dynamics that could help advance neutral-atom quantum computing.

4. SES, Airbus And Dutch Municipality Of Noordwijk To Build Satellite Optical Ground Station For EAGLE-1 7/15/2026

   SES, a space solutions company, jointly with Airbus Netherlands B.V. signed a ground lease agreement with the Dutch municipality of Noordwijk for a plot at the NL Space Campus, next to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) technical center ESTeC.

5. NSF Selects Rochester, New York, And Finger Lakes Region As National Laser Innovation Hub 7/14/2026

   The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) announced it will award $15M over the next two years to launch the NSF STELLAR Engine in the Rochester/Finger Lakes Region of New York, led by the University of Rochester.

6. Quantum Bath Syncs Distant Qubits 7/14/2026

   Future quantum computing will require correlations between distant modules—a feature known as distributed entanglement.

7. LSU Physicists Create First Room-Temperature Quantum Material 7/14/2026

   Quantum materials could transform technologies ranging from powerful computers and ultra-secure communications to advanced energy systems. But there has always been one major obstacle.

8. Aliro Technologies And Zerothird Demonstrate Operational Quantum Networking With Cisco 7/14/2026

   Cisco is now testing Aliro Orchestrator as the quantum network management layer at its Cisco Photonics Center in Vimercate, Italy, to operate and manage a live entanglement-based quantum key distribution (eQKD) network built on zerothird’s eQKD system.

9. SILITH And UMC Achieve Mass Production Milestone For Silicon Photonics 7/13/2026

   SILITH Technology, a silicon photonics fabless company, and United Microelectronics Corporation (“UMC”), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced the first mass-production wafer delivery of photonic ICs from UMC’s Singapore fab, advancing the partnership between the two companies to scale next-generation silicon photonics manufacturing.

10. CCNY-Led Researchers Define New Frontier In Quantum Materials 7/13/2026

    Researchers in City College of New York physicist Vinod M. Menon’s Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP) have outlined an emerging frontier in quantum materials: atomically thin systems in which light, magnetism, and electric charge are strongly intertwined.