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Quantum computing

Early commercialmomentum 711,048 papers in 3 months (+26% yearly)$4.6B raised in 12 months26 companies

Computers that use qubits, which can hold superpositions of 0 and 1, to solve some problems ordinary computers cannot.

Why early commercial: Vendors sell systems and cloud access, and Quantinuum closed a $1.68 billion IPO on Nasdaq in June 2026. Jun 5, 2026

Papers per monthOpenAlex journal and conference papers; January includes papers dated by year only; the last two months are still filling in
05551.1kSep 24Mar 25Sep 25Mar 26

Dots under a month: dated events tracked here that month.

32 events

DateEvent
Sep 2026
Sep 15A theoretical separation between quantum computers & LLMsIBM Research blog· AnnouncementUnverified
Sep 15From error mitigation to fault-tolerant quantum computingIBM Research blog· AnnouncementUnverified
Sep 8IonQ launches Superion 256 platformionq.com· Product
Sep 8Commerce finalizes $100 million CHIPS awards to quantum firmsquantinuum.com· Policy
Sep 3New qubit architecture enables faster, more accurate operationsMIT News: quantum computing· AnnouncementUnverified
Aug 2026
Aug 31IBM Quantum Nighthawk r2—more circuits, fasterIBM Research blog· AnnouncementUnverified
Aug 27Pasqal completes SPAC merger ahead of Nasdaq listingpasqal.com· Milestone
Aug 24NIST Researchers Supersize Quantum Technology to Help Detect Faint PhotonsNIST news· AnnouncementUnverified
Aug 19IBM’s new modular architecture for cryogenic systemsIBM Research blog· AnnouncementUnverified
Aug 12QOBLIB: tracking progress in quantum optimizationIBM Research blog· AnnouncementUnverified
Jul 2026
Jul 31IonQ completes acquisition of chip foundry SkyWater Technologyionq.com· Deal
Jul 2IQM lists on Nasdaqiqm.tech· Milestone
Jun 2026
Jun 3Quantinuum prices its IPO at $60 per sharequantinuum.com· Funding
Mar 2026
Mar 10DARPA opens QBI to new entrants with a Stage A topicdarpa.mil· Policy
Feb 2026
Feb 17Infleqtion starts trading on the NYSEinfleqtion.com· Milestone
Jan 2026
Jan 20D-Wave completes acquisition of Quantum Circuitsdwavequantum.com· Deal
Nov 2025
Nov 12IBM delivers Nighthawk and Loon processorsnewsroom.ibm.com· Product
Nov 5Quantinuum launches Helios trapped-ion quantum computerquantinuum.com· Product
Oct 2025
Oct 28NVIDIA introduces NVQLink to connect quantum processors and GPUsnvidianews.nvidia.com· Product
Oct 22Google reports verifiable quantum advantage with Quantum Echoesblog.google· Breakthrough
Oct 7Nobel Prize in Physics honors superconducting circuit pioneersnobelprize.org· Milestone
Sep 2025
Sep 24Caltech traps a record 6,100 atom qubits in one arraycaltech.edu· Breakthrough
Jun 2025
Jun 10IBM plans Starling, a large fault-tolerant quantum computer, by 2029newsroom.ibm.com· Announcement
Jun 9IonQ agrees to buy Oxford Ionics for $1.075 billionionq.com· Deal
Apr 2025
Apr 3DARPA selects about 20 firms for Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Stage Adarpa.mil· Policy
Mar 2025
Mar 12D-Wave reports beyond-classical result in Sciencedwavequantum.com· Breakthrough
Feb 2025
Feb 27AWS unveils Ocelot, a cat-qubit error correction chipaboutamazon.com· Product
Feb 19Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 chip built on a topoconductor materialnews.microsoft.com· Announcement
Feb 6DARPA picks Microsoft and PsiQuantum for utility-scale evaluationdarpa.mil· Policy
Dec 2024
Dec 9Nature paper reports error correction below the surface code thresholdnature.com· Breakthrough
Dec 9Google's Willow chip shows error rates falling as qubits scaleblog.google· Breakthrough
Nov 2024
Nov 19Microsoft and Atom Computing entangle 24 logical qubitsazure.microsoft.com· Milestone
About quantum computing here
Sub-areas
Superconducting qubits, Trapped ions, Neutral atoms, Photonic qubits, Spin qubits, Topological qubits, Error correction, Quantum software
Stage evidence
Early commercial, Jun 5, 2026: Vendors sell systems and cloud access, and Quantinuum closed a $1.68 billion IPO on Nasdaq in June 2026. quantinuum.com
Momentum
71 of 100: the mean of its ranks among the tracked fields for paper growth (56), funding in 12 months (69) and events in 90 days (88). Method
Papers
6,470 in the 12 months ending two months ago, +26% against the 12 before (OpenAlex topics, journal and conference papers).
Tracked here since
Sep 25, 2026

Changes to this field

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Sep 25, 2026Quantum computingTechnology: Added

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