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World‐Quantum Day Fallout: Breakthroughs, Benchmarks & Big Bucks

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April 20, 2025

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Your weekly roundup of the biggest breakthroughs in Quantum Computing

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Google Blog (World Quantum Day)

Google provides three problems quantum could crack. (source)

  • Medicine: simulating cytochrome P450 with Boehringer to accelerate drug‑candidate screening 

  • Batteries: BASF collaboration shows accurate modelling of lithium‑nickel‑oxide cathodes for cleaner energy storage 

  • Fusion: Sandia study finds quantum algorithms could slash compute time for reactor‑material design

Takeaway: Targeted algorithms are already mapping a path to health‑care and clean‑energy wins—well before fault‑tolerant machines arrive.

Big Tech Declares “Quantum Era”

Big Tech is claiming its quantum era has begun (Source)

  • UN‑backed “International Year of Quantum” sees Amazon (Ocelot), Microsoft (Majorana) and Google (Willow) unveil next‑gen chips, while IBM readies a >4,000‑qubit quantum‑centric supercomputer 

  • DARPA extends its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative to 18 firms in a race for utility‑scale machines by 2033 

  • Boston Consulting Group pegs the market’s economic upside at $450‑$850 billion by 2040, sparking talent wars and urgent post‑quantum‑security work 

Takeaway:  2025 marks a pivot from lab demos to board‑level deployment strategies; hardware scale‑ups and government road‑maps are converging fast.

UChicago flexes quantum hub

World Quantum Day highlights Chicago’s quantum ecosystem. (Source)

  • UChicago scientists announced a full‑qubit microwave‑to‑optical transducer scheme, clearing a hurdle for hybrid quantum networks 

  • Wellcome Leap awarded $2 million to Fred Chong’s team to use quantum algorithms for cancer biomarker discovery 

  • DOE‑backed Fermilab consortium proposed a silicon‑spin‑qubit sensor to hunt dark‑matter axions, while Argonne unveiled a new spectroscopy tool for quantum materials 

Takeaway: Regional ecosystems—anchored by universities, national labs and startup accelerators—are turning World Quantum Day into a launchpad for overlapping breakthroughs.

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