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Physics World joined the celebrations of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), which ran from February 2025 to February 2026 and aimed to raise global awareness of quantum physics and its applications. This page highlights special Physics World coverage of the IYQ. You can also see how IOP Publishing's quantum-related journals marked the year.

New quantum-enabled proteins could improve biosensing

Entanglement reveals the difficulty of computational problems

Efficiency and hardness of a computation problem are revealed

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News

Winners of International Quantum Year science-journalism competition picked

Physics World and Physics Magazine announce successful pitches

Metasurfaces create super-sized neutral atom arrays for quantum computing

Technique lays the groundwork for neutral-atom quantum computers with more than 100,000 qubits, say physicists

People in quantum science and technology

Ask me anything: Mažena Mackoit-Sinkevičienė – ‘Above all, curiosity drives everything’

Ask me anything: Andrew Lamb – ‘Being flexible and curious matters far more than having everything mapped out from the beginning’

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Korea’s long-term strategy for 2D materials: fundamental science is the secret of success

Quantum jobs and careers

Here are some of the many quantum careers we have featured on Physics World. For more jobs and career information, check out the Physics World Jobs hub.

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Blog

Don’t have a PhD? The quantum industry still wants you

Preparing the next generation of US physicists for a quantum future

Emily Edwards and Claudia Fracchiolla discuss challenges and opportunities in quantum education

Group of children listening to an adult explaining some examples of technology on the table between them

Taking the leap – how to prepare for your future in the quantum workforce

Katherine Skipper and Tushna Commissariat interview three experts in the quantum arena, to get their advice on careers in the quantum market

Physics World Quantum Briefing 2.0

Take a look at our free-to-read digital issue of Physics World Quantum Briefing 2.0 – the Autumn update, which looks back on the celebrations so far for the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, and brings you right up to date with a selection of articles on the history, mystery and industry of quantum mechanics.

Latest quantum research

Schrödinger cat state sets new size record

Clusters containing thousands of metal atoms obey the laws of quantum mechanics, say physicists

Photo of the vacuum chamber used in the experiment at the University of Vienna, bathed in a wash of blue light

Einstein’s recoiling slit experiment realized at the quantum limit

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom

Laboratory set-up of Einstein’s thought experiment

Could silicon become the bedrock of quantum computers?

Australian spin-out Silicon Quantum Computing makes the case with a modality-leading 11-qubit processor

Photo of two people standing either side of dilution refrigerator, taken through an aperture in the refrigerator's supporting frame. They're wearing blue nitrile gloves and working on the refrigerator's connections.

Encrypted qubits can be cloned and stored in multiple locations

“Elegant” result has implications for a quantum internet

Modelling wavefunction collapse as a continuous flow yields insights on the nature of measurement

Quantum state diffusion framework makes it possible to characterize quantum measurement in terms of entropy production

Schematic diagram showing a spinning coin. In the "instantaneous wavefunction collapse" picture, the coin is instantly either heads or tails. In the quantum state diffusion gradual wavefunction collapse, the coin is drawn as wobbling between heads and tails as it falls, before finally settling on heads.

Quantum state teleported between quantum dots at telecoms wavelengths

Frequency-converted photons are key to proof-of-principle experiment

A group of physicists gathered around an optical bench in a laboratory. They are variously studying screens, looking through an IR viewer, and adjusting equipment on the bench.

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Joined-up thinking in quantum metrology: why collaboration is the secret of success

NPL has joined forces with other leading National Metrology Institutes to shape the international standards effort in quantum technologies

Lord Vallance, UK Minister for Science, Innovation, Research and Nuclear

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Quantum metrology at NPL: we explore the challenges and opportunities

This podcast features Tim Prior and John Devaney of the National Physical Laboratory

Cracking the limits of clocks: a new uncertainty relation for time itself

Physicists uncover a universal limit on timekeeping precision, proving that anything from heartbeats to ocean waves can be a clock – but none escape the noise

Quantum information theory sheds light on quantum gravity

Our podcast guest is Alex May of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Quantum photonics network passes a scaling-up milestone

Fibre-based circuit functions as a programmable router for entangled light

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Blog

Winning the popularity contest: the 10 most-read physics stories of 2025

Here's a second chance to catch up with the most popular stories Physics World published in 2025

Artist's representation of a black hole, showing light streaming into a hole overlaid with grid lines

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Quantum science and technology: highlights of 2025

As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s best work in this ever-popular field

Illustration of quantum entanglement showing two crystalline spheres with glowing centres surrounded by wavy lines. The spheres are connected by a tenuous, bright line

Real-world quantum entanglement is far from an unlimited resource

New study shows that operational limits redefine the cost and convertibility of entanglement

Diagram showing registers of weakly and strongly entangled qubits shared by Alice and Bob in an information-theoretic and a computational entanglement manipulation scenario. The process of moving between weakly and strongly entangled states has different entanglement costs and distillable entanglements for each scenario.

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Quantum cluster targets business growth

The Harwell Quantum Cluster is building on the success of the National Quantum Computing Centre to catalyse innovation and enable UK-based companies to thrive in a global marketpla...

Julia Sutcliffe (second from the left), Chief Scientific Advisor for the UK's Department for Business and Trade, visits the NQCC's experimental facilities on the Harwell Cluster (Courtesy: NQCC)

Qubit ‘recycling’ gives neutral-atom quantum computing a boost

Reducing atom loss and re-using already-measured atoms enables more complex quantum computations

Diagram showing a lattice of atoms surrounded by green recycling arrows. The spaces between the arrows are labelled with the kets |?> arrow |o> representing initiation, a small diagram showing atomic transitions, and an arrow on a dial representing readout

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Oak Ridge Quantum Science Center prioritizes joined-up thinking, multidisciplinary impacts

QSC to accelerate convergence of quantum computing and exascale high-performance computing

Travis Humble at the Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Building a quantum future using topological phases of matter and error correction

Tim Hsieh of the Perimeter Institute is our podcast guest

Photo of Tim Hsieh at the Perimeter Institute

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