NIST finalizes first post-quantum encryption standards

Post-Quantum develops post-quantum identity, VPN, and cryptographic security technologies. Founded: 2009. Estimated employees: 11-50. Known funding: Unknown. Notable products: NTS-KEM, post-quantum VPN and identity products.

NIST conducts quantum information science, metrology, cryptography, standards, and quantum networking research. Founded: 1901. Estimated employees: 1000+. Known funding: Government funded. Notable products: Quantum information science programs, PQC standards.

The Chicago Quantum Exchange-led Bloch Quantum Tech Hub received a reported nearly $55 million package centered on a $30 million U.S. Economic Development Administration award plus state and private-sector contributions for quantum manufacturing and supply-chain development in the Illinois-Wisconsin-Indiana region.

Innovate UK Business Connect's opportunities page lists 'Scaling performance of quantum computing hardware: CR&D', open from 2026-06-27 to 2026-09-18, where UK registered organizations can apply for a share of up to £33 million to develop device-level hardware and associated software for universal fault-tolerant quantum computers.

CORDIS lists REALCRYPT as a Horizon Europe ERC Proof of Concept project for protocol-level hybridisation of post-quantum and classical cryptographic protocols, coordinated by Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal with EUR 150,000 in EU contribution.

SpeQtral raised Series A funding for satellite quantum communications.

SBQuantum secured seed funding for diamond quantum magnetometry systems.

Vector Atomic received government support for quantum clocks and inertial sensing.

A 21 August 2026 arXiv preprint compares classical and non-classical photon states for experiments seeking QED vacuum non-linearity, including PVLAS and all-optical four-wave-mixing configurations.

A 21 August 2026 arXiv preprint develops bounds on virtual-distillation success probability, framing the error-mitigation method as a spectral filter and deriving limits from a Slepian concentration operator.

An updated 20 August 2026 arXiv preprint presents fermionic quantum-machine-learning circuit architectures intended to balance trainability, expressivity, classical-simulation hardness, and gradient-evaluation cost.

A new arXiv theory paper studies how measurement feedback and correlated records shape work statistics in a quantum information engine, including a coherence-transition interference contribution.

A new arXiv paper evaluates quantum-jump descriptions of current fluctuations in non-additive open quantum systems and identifies conditions under which imperfect jump detection recovers Landauer-Büttiker results.

A new arXiv paper presents a hybrid workflow that keeps data assimilation and dynamical simulation classical while using a QUBO-to-Ising formulation for quantum-assisted parameter estimation.

Living QAtlas page for public quantum company records.

Living QAtlas page for quantum networking, QKD, and communications signals.

Living QAtlas page connecting companies, funding, research, agencies, and technologies.

QAtlas guide to quantum company and organization profiles.

QAtlas guide to post-quantum security and cryptography signals.