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13.10.2026 Quantum Internet

A quantum setup moves from Delft to Karlsruhe

After fourteen years of research in the Hanson Lab at QuTech, an experimental research line into open microcavities for diamond colour centres recently came to an end. Five generations of PhD researchers worked with and further developed the platform and its experimental setup. But rather than putting the equipment into storage, the team looked ...

10.09.2026 Quantum Internet

Meet the Qbead: a qubit in the palm of your hands

A qubit is the basic unit of information in a quantum computer, just as ...

09.09.2026 Quantum Internet

Diamond spin quantum computing takes a step toward optical scaling

Researchers from Fujitsu, TU Delft, and QuTech have developed a prototype for a new ...

04.09.2026 Quantum Computing

QuTech establishes Quantum Systems Integration Unit

QuTech has established a Quantum Systems Integration Unit to develop full-stack superconducting quantum computers. The new unit will build ...

29.07.2026 Quantum Computing

The quantum bus goes round and round

Researchers at QuTech have demonstrated a semiconductor quantum circuit in which moving qubits plays an active role in processing quantum information. In the experiment a single qubit travels across ...

07.07.2026 Quantum Computing

Quantum Inspire adds new open-architecture quantum processor: Tuna-17

QuTech, in collaboration with the Delft quantum technology ecosystem, has released Tuna-17: a new open-architecture superconducting quantum computer designed to advance Europe’s publicly accessible quantum computing capabilities. Developed by ...

06.07.2026 Organization

QuTech Annual Report 2025

We are proud to present our Annual Report for 2025. UNESCO declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of ...

Three researchers overlooking an optical test bed.

25.06.2026 Quantum Internet

Coherent coupling of diamond colour centre to a nanocavity

Future quantum networks will depend on reliable handshakes between two very different carriers of quantum information: solid-state qubits that can store and process information, and photons that can carry ...

11.05.2026 Ecosystem

QuTech spinoff FrostByte raises €1.3 million for cryo-electronics for scalable quantum computers

FrostByte develops cryo-electronics for one of the biggest scaling challenges in quantum computing: how to control millions of qubits without overwhelming systems with cables, heat generation and external electronics. ...

Maxim de Smet and Larysa Tryputen shuttling an imaginary qubit using badminton

07.05.2026 Quantum Computing

The qubit: there and back again

Scalable semiconductor quantum processors will need more than good qubits. They also need a practical way to connect them. In a new study, published in Nature, QuTech researchers show ...

09.04.2026 In the media

Expert commentary: What do new quantum resource estimates mean for encryption?

Quantum computers are back in the headlines as the next threat to internet security. A new pair of theoretical works, one from Google and one from the start-up Oratomic ...

09.04.2026 Quantum Computing

Bringing back a phase from the many-body world

Modeling an experiment on a single qubit is relatively straightforward. You prepare a state, let it evolve, and read it out. But once several particles start interacting, things quickly ...