I published the 2025 edition of the ebook “Understanding Quantum Technologies” on September 29th, 2025. Since then, I regularly updated it with news, mostly related to new arXiv preprints. The update log is at the end of the book. Like with each past editions since 2021, I wait about a month of beautifying and then […]

In October 2025, Google announced the publication of a paper in Nature on a “verifiable quantum advantage” with “Quantum Echoes”. I like the name. It reminded me of one of my preferred Pink Floyd song, from the Meddle album, released in 1971! Google’s announcement was widely reported in social networks and the media as a […]

Ce 73 ième épisode de Quantum, le podcast de l’actualité quantique, fête les 6 années de ce podcast. Avec Fanny Bouton, nous faisons comme d’habitude le point sur l’actualité quantique. Voici la version texte et les liens utiles du podcast: Sortie de la 8ième édition de Understanding Quantum Technologies Comme le nouvel iPhone sorti il […]

I am happy and relieved to release Understanding Quantum technologies 2025. It is the 8th edition of this book and the fifth in English. For the first time, I reduced its size, from 1,554 to 1,522 pages, while increasing its content size. I’ll explain why and how later.  It is always organized in five parts […]

Nous voici dans l’épisode numéro 72 de Quantum, le podcast de l’actualité quantique avec vos deux olibrius qui baignent dedans toute la journée, moi-même et Fanny Bouton d’OVHcloud. Nous y parlons d’événements, de mes visites à l’étranger (Bratislava, Innsbruck), de l’actualité quantique en France et dans le monde et cela termine avec l’habituel bêtisier que […]

Welcome to the 84th episode of the Decode Quantum podcast series, which has now more than five years of existence. We are welcoming today Sabrina Maniscalco from Algorithmiq. Fanny Bouton: Sabrina Maniscalco is the CEO and cofounder of Algorithmiq, a startup developing quantum algorithms for applications in life sciences based in Helsinki. She is also […]