03 · The Weekly
The Weekly · Issue 2026·44 · 26 Oct – 1 Nov 2026
Issue 2026·44 of The Weekly, 26 Oct – 1 Nov 2026: SLAC Team Finds Direct Evidence of Altermagnetism in MnTe. 142 stories, 47 papers, the essays, the calendar and the board — as the week closed.
In inglese
Dear reader,
This week the wire carried 142 stories, the intake filed 47 papers, 6 of them worth a page, 6 events open in the next seven days and the board holds 664 open roles.
I · The stories
The story of the week: SLAC Team Finds Direct Evidence of Altermagnetism in MnTe
A SLAC-led team detected a chiral magnetic structure in manganese telluride, providing direct evidence that the material is an altermagnet. The result could inform future spintronics research, though the experiment did not demonstrate a device.
- Alice & Bob Estimates 22,593 Cat Qubits for RSA-2048
- Bogorad and Harnik Tie Coherent Detector Gain to Entanglement
- BTQ Brings MIMIQ to qBraid’s 35,000 Developers
- WSe₂–WS₂ Chip Delivers 357,000 Single Photons per Second
- Silicon Cavity Records 1.29 Million Photon Counts per Second
- Princeton Team Uses Rydberg Blockade to Speed Ytterbium Loading
- Mamba Decoder Cuts QEC Scaling to O(d²) in Real-Time Simulations
- Aarhus Spectrometer Learns DNP Pulses on the Sample
- IQM Entangles All 54 Qubits on Its Emerald Processor
- UK Sets 15-Year Route to Put Quantum Systems in Space
- Researchers Demonstrate a Single-Molecule Spin–Photon Interface
- USTC Researchers Demonstrate Four-Way Multiplexed Quantum Gates
- UbiQD Wins $200,000 Grant for a Single-Photon Source
- PsiQuantum Reports 1.2 dB Loss in AI Optical-Switch Demo
- IonQ and EPB Report 95.8% Fewer Parameters in Grid AI Test
- GQI Says Quantum Deals Are Consolidating Around Bigger Platforms
- Researchers Map Trapped-Ion Ramsey Data to Feynman Diagrams
- Researchers Demonstrate Optical Control of a ZnSe Donor Spin
- NVision Tests Organic Qubits for Photonic Quantum Chips
- Researchers Use Compression to Map Quantum Matter
- JPMorgan Researchers Combine QKD Authentication and Key Expansion
- Naceur, Wang and Colleagues Certify Quantum Optimization Bounds
- Yang's Counterexample Defeats a Quantum-Channel Optimality Conjecture
- PASQAL’s Rydberg Array Maps Ising Meson Spectra
- Electron Diffraction Tracks Tunable Decoherence Near Gold
- Stuttgart Team Runs Quantum-Dot QKD for 19 Hours on Campus Fibre
- Ghosh Team Finds Squeezed Sensors Lose Ground in Negative Noise
- FIU Team Tests Checkpointing for Quantum Neural Networks
- A Parametric Cavity Synchronizes Two Spin Ensembles Without Breaking Parity
- SoftBank and Five Firms Begin Quantum Materials R&D
- Pitt Wins $4.385 Million for Quantum Cancer-Imaging Research
- QunaSys Simulates a 319 Million-Gate Chemistry Circuit
- IonQ Puts Hybrid QKD-PQC Network Into Operation
- Photon Pairs Improve Loss Estimates in Whispering-Gallery Resonators
- SkyWater Opens OnRamp for Quantum Startups Seeking Their First Wafers
- PSI Publishes Five AI-Assisted Quantum-Information Results
- Stuttgart-Led FeedbacQ Wins €1.15m for Quantum Control
- Quantum Art Maps Wave Solvers Around the Condition-Number Bottleneck
- Researchers Extend Contextuality Tests to Sequential Quantum Processes
II · Worth a page
- Quantum circuit simulation with high-order optical tensor processing
Classical simulation of quantum circuits using photonic (optical) hardware and tensor-network methods
- Generalized Mean-Field Ising Model as a Benchmark Family with Exact Solutions
Quantum optimization and benchmarking — specifically, exactly solvable Ising Hamiltonians used as test problems for quantum annealers, QAOA, and classical heuristics, with a side connection to algebraic number theory
- Resource efficient Sample Based Quantum Simulation through Fragmentation and Virtual Partitioning of QPU
Quantum computing for quantum chemistry — specifically sample-based quantum diagonalization combined with fragment-based embedding, executed on superconducting hardware with a hardware-aware virtualization layer
- Quantum-Classical Framework for the Joint Optimization of Bidirectional EV Charging and Trip Assignment
Hybrid quantum–classical optimization, specifically Benders decomposition combined with QAOA for electric-vehicle fleet scheduling and bidirectional (V2G) charging
- Fast and accurate neural triage decoding of ultra-high-rate quantum LDPC codes
Quantum error correction — specifically classical decoding algorithms for high-rate quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes, combining graph neural network message passing with adaptive, syndrome-guided search
- Perspective on AI and quantum open-source software
Quantum open-source software (QOSS), AI-assisted software development, and research verification
III · The essays
No essay ran this week; the newest on file when it closed:
IV · On the calendar
V · On the board
- Scientific Software Lead — Infrastructure — QuEra Computing
- Senior Quantum Engineer — QuEra Computing
- Advanced Opto-Mechanical Engineer - 1112 — Quantinuum
That is the week. Yours, Quantum.world
Every issue
- Issue 2026·44 · 26 Oct – 1 Nov 2026 — SLAC Team Finds Direct Evidence of Altermagnetism in MnTe
142 stories · 47 papers · 0 essays
- Issue 2026·43 · 19–25 Oct 2026 — Treasury Proposes Wider Controls on Quantum Investment
82 stories · 40 papers · 5 essays