Dans ce 75ième épisode de Quantum, le podcast de l’actualité quantique, toujours avec Fanny Bouton, nous faisons le tour habituel de l’actualité scientifique, technologique, événementielle et people du quantique en France et dans le monde. Et comme d’habitude, voici le transcript, les liens utiles et illustrations de cette actualité. Evénements Séminaire SFGP Je participais le […]

The online PDF version of the 8th edition of the book “Understanding Quantum Technologies” is available since September 29th. As I do every year, I continue to update the book, first to publish it on arXiv which I did late October. On top of many small updates, I added a small section on the “Making […]

In November 2025, Quantinuum released its Helios QPU with 98 qubits. It also announced it was sold to Singapore as part of a partnership with A*Star and to be deployed there in 2026. Helios got less attention than the recent news coming from Google (Willow, Echoes) and Microsoft (Majorana 1) but it deserves it. It […]

Nous voici dans le 74ième épisode de Quantum, le podcast mensuel francophone de l’actualité quantique. Et tant de news, anecdotes et analyse à partager en compagnie de Fanny Bouton. Au menu, nous avons toujours plein d’événements, et surtout la saison des prix Nobel de physique et les dernières annonces de Google. Sans compter diverses actualités […]

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 […]