
A six-qubit quantum circuit is executed on a silicon spin-qubit array, marking the largest multiqubit algorithm demonstrated in semiconductor quantum-dot hardware.
Running a Six-Qubit Quantum Circuit on a Silicon Spin-Qubit Array
I. Fernández de Fuentes, E. Raymenants, B. Undseth, O. Pietx-Casas, S. Philips, M. Mądzik, S.L. de Snoo, S.V. Amitonov, L. Tryputen, A.T. Schmitz, A.Y. Matsuura, G. Scappucci, and L.M.K. Vandersypen
PRX Quantum 7, 010308 (2026)
Tim O. Höhn, René A. Villela, Er Zu, Leonardo Bezzo, Ronen M. Kroeze, and Monika Aidelsburger
PRX Quantum 7, 010303 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026
Through atomic-loss spectroscopy the excited-state tune-out wavelength in Yb is found, enabling future applications that require control of atoms in either the ground or clock states.
I. Fernández de Fuentes, E. Raymenants, B. Undseth, O. Pietx-Casas, S. Philips, M. Mądzik, S.L. de Snoo, S.V. Amitonov, L. Tryputen, A.T. Schmitz, A.Y. Matsuura, G. Scappucci, and L.M.K. Vandersypen
PRX Quantum 7, 010308 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026
A six-qubit quantum circuit is executed on a silicon spin-qubit array, marking the largest multiqubit algorithm demonstrated in semiconductor quantum-dot hardware.
Derek Khu, Andrew Tanggara, Chao Jin, and Kishor Bharti
PRX Quantum 7, 010319 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026
A novel connection between quantum error correction and quantum contextuality establishes contextuality as a property of fault-tolerant codes and a resource for scalable quantum computation, resulting in possible routes to improve error correction.
Nayeli A. Rodríguez-Briones and Daniel K. Park
PRX Quantum 7, 010350 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026
Modeling quantum supervised learning as thermodynamic cooling lets a refrigerator protocol boost sampling efficiency and cut overhead, avoiding complex algorithms like Grover iterations.
Carla M.D. Richter, Michael Antesberger, Huan Cao, Philip Walther, and Lee A. Rozema
PRX Quantum 7, 010354 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026
By violating a Bell-like inequality with a quantum switch, this experiment verifies indefinite causal order, meaning events can occur in a superposition of temporal sequences.
Yuan Liu, Shraddha Singh, Kevin C. Smith, Eleanor Crane, John M. Martyn, Alec Eickbusch, Alexander Schuckert, Richard D. Li, Jasmine Sinanan-Singh, Micheline B. Soley, Takahiro Tsunoda, Isaac L. Chuang, Nathan Wiebe, and Steven M. Girvin
PRX Quantum 7, 010201 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026
A pedagogical guide to hybrid qubit-oscillator processors unlocks their potential as a powerful new paradigm in quantum computing.
Jinkang Guo, Yifan Hong, Adam Kaufman, and Andrew Lucas
PRX Quantum 7, 010301 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026
A new family of codes (ZSZ codes) is introduced, with potential for scalable self-correction and a realistic hardware implementation.
Piotr Sierant, Paolo Stornati, and Xhek Turkeshi
PRX Quantum 7, 010302 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026
A framework for the quantification of non-Gaussian resources needed for universal quantum computation in many-body quantum systems is introduced and applied to study the growth of non-Gaussianity.
Tim O. Höhn, René A. Villela, Er Zu, Leonardo Bezzo, Ronen M. Kroeze, and Monika Aidelsburger
PRX Quantum 7, 010303 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026
Through atomic-loss spectroscopy the excited-state tune-out wavelength in Yb is found, enabling future applications that require control of atoms in either the ground or clock states.
Paul Menczel, Christian Flindt, Fredrik Brange, Franco Nori, and Clemens Gneiting
PRX Quantum 7, 010304 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026
A comprehensive analysis of fluctuations in open quantum systems using two complementary approaches provides new insights into nonequilibrium dynamics and novel techniques for probing these fluctuations in experiments.
Senrui Chen, Zhihan Zhang, Liang Jiang, and Steven T. Flammia
PRX Quantum 7, 010305 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026
Combining concepts from gate set tomography and Pauli noise learning yields a new protocol for noise characterization that is self-consistent and experimentally practical.
Xanda C. Kolesnikow, Thomas B. Smith, Felix Thomsen, Abhijeet Alase, and Andrew C. Doherty
PRX Quantum 7, 010306 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026
Protected qubits can now support protected gates without prohibitive slowdowns.
Zihan Zhao, Zhongchi Zhang, Huaichuan Wang, Ken Deng, Wenlan Chen, and Jiazhong Hu
PRX Quantum 7, 010307 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026
The dynamics of a Bose gas in a one-dimensional optical potential are studied in a parameter regime where the tight binding approximation is not valid, revealing new features.
I. Fernández de Fuentes, E. Raymenants, B. Undseth, O. Pietx-Casas, S. Philips, M. Mądzik, S.L. de Snoo, S.V. Amitonov, L. Tryputen, A.T. Schmitz, A.Y. Matsuura, G. Scappucci, and L.M.K. Vandersypen
PRX Quantum 7, 010308 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026
A six-qubit quantum circuit is executed on a silicon spin-qubit array, marking the largest multiqubit algorithm demonstrated in semiconductor quantum-dot hardware.
Omar Fawzi, Aadil Oufkir, and Robert Salzmann
PRX Quantum 7, 010309 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026
Phase-space representations are used to characterize how the nonclassicality of a pure target state governs the difficulty of estimating its similarity to an unknown quantum state, both for qubits and continuous variable quantum systems.
Dhruv Devulapalli, Chao Yin, Andrew Y. Guo, Eddie Schoute, Andrew M. Childs, Alexey V. Gorshkov, and Andrew Lucas
PRX Quantum 7, 010310 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026
Tight lower bounds on entanglement flow through vertex-limited architectures are established, demonstrating that constrained intermediate regions sharply limit bipartite entanglement growth and force slow quantum routing.
Wucheng Zhang
PRX Quantum 7, 010311 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026
A correspondence between quantum states and stochastic processes enables an efficient protocol for generating highly entangled many-body quantum states with finely tunable entanglement.
Marie Kempkes, Aroosa Ijaz, Elies Gil-Fuster, Carlos Bravo-Prieto, Jakob Spiegelberg, Evert van Nieuwenburg, and Vedran Dunjko
PRX Quantum 7, 010312 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026
As models built from quantum kernel methods grow larger, they reach a new regime where performance improves, showcasing “double descent” behavior also known to occur in classical machine learning.
J. J. Cuozzo, W. Yu, X. Shi, A. J. Muhowski, S. D. Hawkins, J. F. Klem, E. Rossi, and W. Pan
PRX Quantum 7, 010313 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026
A quantum spin Hall superconducting system where Majorana Kramers pairs can possibly emerge without magnetic fields is established, opening a promising path toward scalable fault-tolerant topological quantum computing.
Sisi Zhou and Senrui Chen
PRX Quantum 7, 010314 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026
Randomized measurements enable near-optimal estimation of multiple quantum parameters, providing a powerful and practical route to quantum metrology.
Zi-Han Chen, Ming-Cheng Chen, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan
PRX Quantum 7, 010315 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026
A nonlocal magic state cultivation scheme is implemented on the rotated surface code, promising high-fidelity logical T state preparation without magic state distillation.
Margaret Pavlovich, Peter T. Rakich, and Shruti Puri
PRX Quantum 7, 010316 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026
Preparing quantum resource states probabilistically via phonons and then converting the states into photons on demand efficiently achieves high fidelities.
Jin Ming Koh, Dax Enshan Koh, and Jayne Thompson
PRX Quantum 7, 010317 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026
Development and demonstration of a probabilistic readout error mitigation scheme for efficient recovery of computational results on circuits containing noisy mid-circuit measurements and feedforward.
Aleksandr Mokeev, Babak Saif, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Johannes Borregaard
PRX Quantum 7, 010318 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026
Quantum processing of coherently encoded light leads to orders-of-magnitude improvements in imaging performance, including enhanced signals for exoplanet detection.
Derek Khu, Andrew Tanggara, Chao Jin, and Kishor Bharti
PRX Quantum 7, 010319 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026
A novel connection between quantum error correction and quantum contextuality establishes contextuality as a property of fault-tolerant codes and a resource for scalable quantum computation, resulting in possible routes to improve error correction.
Mark L. Turner, Earl T. Campbell, Ophelia Crawford, Neil I. Gillespie, and Joan Camps
PRX Quantum 7, 010320 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026
A scalable decoding protocol enables fast logic with AMO qubits.
Kellen O'Brien, Maya Amouzegar, Won Chan Lee, Martin Ritter, and Alicia J. Kollár
PRX Quantum 7, 010321 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026
A large-scale coplanar waveguide array is combined with multiple transmon qubits in experiment, achieving new geometries of qubit-qubit interactions and generalizing readout and diagnostics to highly multimode settings.
András Grabarits, Federico Balducci, and Adolfo del Campo
PRX Quantum 7, 010322 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026
A driving scheme is introduced, achieving exponential gains in annealing efficiency at the cost of an exponentially small nonlocal correction near the critical point.
Yoshiki Sunada, Shingo Kono, Jesper Ilves, Takanori Sugiyama, Yasunari Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Okubo, Shuhei Tamate, Yutaka Tabuchi, and Yasunobu Nakamura
PRX Quantum 7, 010323 (2026) - Published 3 February, 2026
A method to characterize an array of sequentially entangled qubits is proposed and used to find the density matrix of a 35-qubit microwave cluster state, paving the way for efficient benchmarking and troubleshooting of entangled photon generation.
Esha Swaroop, Tomas Jochym-O'Connor, and Theodore J. Yoder
PRX Quantum 7, 010324 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026
A universal, low-overhead adapter enables sparse, fault-tolerant joint logical measurements and gates across arbitrary quantum LDPC codes, with qubit and check costs scaling only linearly (up to polylog factors) in code distance.
Nader Mostaan, Nathan Goldman, Ataç İmamoğlu, and Fabian Grusdt
PRX Quantum 7, 010325 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026
A novel optical method is proposed to detect fractionally charged quasiholes in topologically ordered states via formation and observation of anyon-trions—bound states between interlayer excitons and quasiholes—in TMD-graphene heterostructures.
Jan Apolín and David P. Nadlinger
PRX Quantum 7, 010326 (2026) - Published 6 February, 2026
An intuitive framework showing how atomic motion affects photon-mediated qubit entanglement enables the removal of thermal-motion overheads, boosting entanglement rates and fidelities in quantum network links.
William Huie, Cianan Conefrey-Shinozaki, Zhubing Jia, Patrick Draper, and Jacob P. Covey
PRX Quantum 7, 010327 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026
By encoding three distinct qubits within each individual ytterbium-171 atom, researchers have unlocked a resource-efficient path to simulating complex nuclear matter on neutral-atom quantum processors.
Yizhi Shen, Alex Buzali, Hong-Ye Hu, Katherine Klymko, Daan Camps, Susanne F. Yelin, and Roel Van Beeumen
PRX Quantum 7, 010328 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026
A multi-observable dynamic mode decomposition approach is shown to extract the ground- and excited-state properties of many-body systems with reduced resource requirements while maintaining accuracy.
Changhun Oh and Youngrong Lim
PRX Quantum 7, 010329 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026
Analyzing the quantum mean-value problem in adaptive bosonic circuits proves that regimes with limited adaptive measurements admit efficient classical simulation, even in the presence of non-Gaussian resources.
Zhiling Wang, Takeaki Miyamura, Yoshiki Sunada, Keika Sunada, Jesper Ilves, Kohei Matsuura, and Yasunobu Nakamura
PRX Quantum 7, 010330 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026
Experimental demonstration of cluster states enabled with photon-loss detection achieves improved fidelities and persistent entanglement over long chains of qubits, showing promise for building high-complexity states in the microwave domain.
Guoding Liu, Zhenyu Du, Zi-Wen Liu, and Xiongfeng Ma
PRX Quantum 7, 010331 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026
Nearly optimal approximate quantum error correction with high encoding rates and strong noise robustness is proven to be achievable by one-dimensional local random Clifford circuits of only logarithmic depth.
Simon M. Linsel, Lode Pollet, and Fabian Grusdt
PRX Quantum 7, 010332 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026
Using percolation-inspired observables accessible to quantum simulators, independent confinement of e- and m-anyons in toric codes on non-square lattices is revealed, exposing a sharp distinction between topological order and deconfinement even at zero temperature.
Joseph Huang (黄启南), Bengy T.T. Wong (黄梓峻), Zehai Pang (庞泽海), Xudong Zhang (张旭东), Zeling Chen (陈泽灵), and Yi Yang (杨易)
PRX Quantum 7, 010333 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026
Environmental synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields redefine quantum light-matter interactions through spin-orbit coupling, dressed and squeezed polaritons, and nonsymmorphic symmetry, enabling the engineering of topological photonic states to drive the development of chiral quantum networks.
Bence Bakó, Tenzan Araki, and Bálint Koczor
PRX Quantum 7, 010334 (2026) - Published 18 February, 2026
A hybrid quantum-classical algorithm enables arbitrary expectation value estimation with exponential error suppression using only a single copy of the quantum state.
Marc Serra-Peralta, Mackenzie H. Shaw, and Barbara M. Terhal
PRX Quantum 7, 010335 (2026) - Published 19 February, 2026
A new decoding method focuses on logical observables.
Róbert Németh, Vatsal K. Bandaru, Pedro Alves, Emma Brann, Owen M. Eskandari, Hudaiba Soomro, Avani Vivrekar, M.A. Eriksson, Merritt P. Losert, and Mark Friesen
PRX Quantum 7, 010336 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026
Two-dimensional shuttling could lead to improvements in shuttling fidelity that can enable scalable architectures for quantum dots with long-range connectivity.
Serra Erdamar, Maryam Abbasi, Weijian Chen, Niklas Hörnedal, Aurélia Chenu, and Kater W. Murch
PRX Quantum 7, 010337 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026
Counterdiabatic driving applied to a dissipative superconducting qubit overcomes the breakdown of adiabaticity caused by gain-loss imbalances, enabling the exploration of topological features around exceptional points in non-Hermitian systems.
Yuichiro Nakano, Ken N. Okada, and Keisuke Fujii
PRX Quantum 7, 010338 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026
By combining quantum circuits with neural generative models, efficient and scalable quantum-enhanced sampling becomes feasible without precise circuit optimization.
Adam Siegel, Zhenyu Cai, Hamza Jnane, Balint Koczor, Shaun Pexton, Armands Strikis, and Simon Benjamin
PRX Quantum 7, 010339 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026
Qubit shuttling may enable a scalable, fault-tolerant semiconductor spin-qubit architecture with all-to-all logical level connectivity.
Federico Settimo, Andrea Smirne, Kimmo Luoma, Bassano Vacchini, Jyrki Piilo, and Dariusz Chruściński
PRX Quantum 7, 010340 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026
The display of memory effects in quantum dynamics is shown to depend on whether it is the quantum state or observable that is evolved.
Arda Aydin, Victor V. Albert, and Alexander Barg
PRX Quantum 7, 010341 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026
Improved error-correcting codes and logical gates with promising characteristics are constructed and proven to be interconvertible among three relevant state spaces.
Yakov Solomons, Roni Ben-Maimon, Arpit Behera, Ofer Firstenberg, Nir Davidson, and Ephraim Shahmoon
PRX Quantum 7, 010342 (2026) - Published 2 March, 2026
A beam-shaping approach enables efficient light coupling to 2D atomic tweezer arrays by matching their diffraction patterns, with interface efficiency scaling favorably with atom number and robustness to imperfections.
Andrew Hardy, Priyanka Mukhopadhyay, M. Sohaib Alam, Robert Konik, Layla Hormozi, Eleanor Rieffel, Stuart Hadfield, João Barata, Raju Venugopalan, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, and Nathan Wiebe
PRX Quantum 7, 010343 (2026) - Published 3 March, 2026
Fault-tolerant simulation of scalar field theory is improved using a finite-volume approach for computing scattering processes, and its potential for practical implementation is explored.
Yuzhen Zhang, Sagar Vijay, Yingfei Gu, and Yimu Bao
PRX Quantum 7, 010344 (2026) - Published 4 March, 2026
Approximate -designs can be generated from shallow circuits with limited magic gates as a new efficient and realistic approach to random unitaries.
Laura Clinton, Toby S. Cubitt, Raul Garcia-Patron, Ashley Montanaro, Stasja Stanisic, and Maarten Stroeks
PRX Quantum 7, 010345 (2026) - Published 5 March, 2026
Adaptation of classical phase-retrieval yields a method for quantum phase estimation that enables simpler implementations with reduced gate count, especially under connectivity constraints, and resilience to shot noise.
Alejandro Vivas-Viaña and Carlos Sánchez Muñoz
PRX Quantum 7, 010346 (2026) - Published 6 March, 2026
Frequency-resolved photon detection can unlock hidden information in the light emitted by open quantum systems, enabling metrology that approaches fundamental limits using standard laboratory tools.
Jerry Huang, Laura Lewis, Hsin-Yuan Huang, and John Preskill
PRX Quantum 7, 010347 (2026) - Published 9 March, 2026
Fundamental limits of adaptive measurement in quantum many-body systems are established, showing when logarithmic-sample prediction fails and how optimal algorithms can still be achieved.
Tian-Le Wang, Peng Wang, Ze-An Zhao, Sheng Zhang, Ren-Ze Zhao, Xiao-Yan Yang, Hai-Feng Zhang, Zhi-Fei Li, Yuan Wu, Liang-Liang Guo, Yong Chen, Hao-Ran Tao, Lei Du, Chi Zhang, Zhi-Long Jia, Wei-Cheng Kong, Peng Duan, Ming Gong, and Guo-Ping Guo
PRX Quantum 7, 010348 (2026) - Published 10 March, 2026
A zigzag qubit configuration that enables noise-resilient state transfer and entanglement generation between distant qubits is analyzed and demonstrated on a superconducting quantum processor.
Caroline L. Jones, Albert Aloy, Gerard Higgins, and Markus P. Müller
PRX Quantum 7, 010349 (2026) - Published 11 March, 2026
Time-energy uncertainty relations are used to provide a semi-device-independent protocol for randomness certification.
Nayeli A. Rodríguez-Briones and Daniel K. Park
PRX Quantum 7, 010350 (2026) - Published 12 March, 2026
Modeling quantum supervised learning as thermodynamic cooling lets a refrigerator protocol boost sampling efficiency and cut overhead, avoiding complex algorithms like Grover iterations.
Isaac D. Smith, Elie Wolfe, and Robert W. Spekkens
PRX Quantum 7, 010351 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026
Causal inference techniques for characterizing latent variable models are generalized to characterize the quantum states compatible with some quantum network structure.
Eloi Nicolau, Marko Ljubotina, and Maksym Serbyn
PRX Quantum 7, 010352 (2026) - Published 13 March, 2026
Generalization of compact localized states to many-body systems with kinetic constraints and chiral symmetry reveals a new type of nonergodic eigenstate.
Yotam Vaknin, Shoham Jacoby, Arne Grimsmo, and Alex Retzker
PRX Quantum 7, 010353 (2026) - Published 16 March, 2026
By implementing transversal gates directly on surface codes in systems with nonlocal connectivity, new cultivation protocols increase magic-state-generation rates by over a factor of 20 and achieve ultralow error rates.
Carla M.D. Richter, Michael Antesberger, Huan Cao, Philip Walther, and Lee A. Rozema
PRX Quantum 7, 010354 (2026) - Published 17 March, 2026
By violating a Bell-like inequality with a quantum switch, this experiment verifies indefinite causal order, meaning events can occur in a superposition of temporal sequences.
Giacomo Marmorini, Takeshi Fukuhara, and Daisuke Yamamoto
PRX Quantum 7, 010355 (2026) - Published 18 March, 2026
A new approach to quantum state tomography, suitable for platforms where local control is difficult, can reconstruct quantum states with high accuracy and efficiency.
Changhao Yi, Xiaodi Li, and Huangjun Zhu
PRX Quantum 7, 010356 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026
Techniques are introduced to verify the dimensionality of entanglement based on the moments of a reduction of a given quantum state, which can be estimated with randomized measurements.
Ke Nie, J. Nofear Bradford, Supriya Mandal, Aayam Bista, Wolfgang Pfaff, and Angela Kou
PRX Quantum 7, 010357 (2026) - Published 20 March, 2026
Coupling a fluxonium control qubit to superconducting cavities suppresses detrimental inherited errors and nonlinearities, providing a robust alternative to transmon-based architectures for quantum computation.
Matthew A. Feldman, Tyler Volkoff, Seongjin Hong, Claire E. Marvinney, Zoë Holmes, Raphael C. Pooser, Andrew Sornborger, and Alberto M. Marino
PRX Quantum 7, 010358 (2026) - Published 23 March, 2026
Squeezed light sharpens the learning curve for continuous-variable quantum compilers, delivering significant gains in both precision and computational speed.
Marco Scigliuzzo, Léo Peyruchat, Riccardo Maria Marabini, Carla Becker, Vincent Jouanny, Per Delsing, and Pasquale Scarlino
PRX Quantum 7, 010359 (2026) - Published 24 March, 2026
Flux-tunable superconducting resonators induce controllable nonlinearity in a surface acoustic wave cavity, achieving cross-Kerr interactions between seven pairs of mechanical modes.
Zhenyu Du, Yifan Tang, Andreas Elben, Ingo Roth, Jens Eisert, and Zhenhuan Liu
PRX Quantum 7, 010360 (2026) - Published 26 March, 2026
A measurement protocol for estimating second-order nonlinear expectation values of quantum observables is introduced and shown to perform optimally in practically relevant contexts.
Rohith Sajith, Zijian Song, Brenden Roberts, Varun Menon, and Yabo Li
PRX Quantum 7, 010361 (2026) - Published 27 March, 2026
By leveraging symmetry gauging to transition quantum codes into non-Abelian topological phases, this work enables the implementation of non-Clifford gates essential for universal quantum computing.
Meng Sun (孙萌), Bowen Yang (杨博闻), Zongyuan Wang (王宗远), Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, and Yu-An Chen (陳昱安)
PRX Quantum 7, 010362 (2026) - Published 31 March, 2026
A framework utilizing topological quantum field theories and invertible subalgebras realizes all Clifford quantum cellular automata across all spatial dimensions, uncovering dimensional periodicity aligning with algebraic -theory.