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The plates of the quantum calendar

Every plate the Quantum.world front page has drawn this year for a day in the history of quantum physics and quantum technology: births, papers, machines and results.

1. 29 Oct 2018 — Europe launches the Quantum Flagship

   a ten-year initiative, started in Vienna

2. 25 Oct 2021 — Zuchongzhi’s quantum advantage

   66 superconducting qubits; random circuits sampled on up to 56 of them, 20 cycles deep

3. 23 Oct 2019 — Sycamore and quantum supremacy

   53 working qubits sample in about 200 seconds what Google put at 10,000 years

4. 22 Oct 2025 — Quantum Echoes

   Google runs an OTOC algorithm on its Willow chip, 13,000 times faster

5. 21 Oct 2015 — A loophole-free Bell test

   electron spins entangled across 1.3 kilometres of the Delft campus