The science behind the Brief. We do not aim to be exhaustive — we aim to name the load-bearing papers a sector reader should be able to discuss.
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First public demonstration of multi-zone QCCD running below the surface-code threshold at #AQ 64 with statistically meaningful logical-error scaling. The strongest single experimental result of the cycle.
Below-threshold 4-round logical circuits on a multi-hundred-atom Rydberg system; the breakthrough that lifted QuEra into the DARPA Stage B "high" odds tier.
First three-qubit silicon T-centre register operating at telecom wavelengths. Distributed quantum becomes credible as a near-term scaling path.
The first credible demonstration that >99% two-qubit fidelity can be obtained on foundry-fabricated CMOS spin qubits. Makes the longer-cycle silicon thesis real.
World-record two-qubit gate fidelity on a commercially deployed ion-trap system. Anchor result for the AQ 64 milestone.
Manufacturable photonic FTQC architecture at million-qubit scale; the engineering paper that underpins the IQMP build-out.
Modular interconnect operating between two Heron-class processors. Sets the engineering anchor for the 2029 Apollo roadmap.
The post-quantum standards on which the rest of the decade’s cryptography migration is built. The most-cited document in the cohort’s policy reading.
First demonstration of exponentially suppressed logical error with surface codes at distance 7 — the proof that scaling error correction is no longer hypothetical.
DARPA's own framework for IV&V across QBI performers. The single best public statement of how the sovereign technical buyer is reading the cohort.
One of the foundational error-corrected logical-gate experiments of the modern era. Still cited in every Stage B roadmap document.
The "supremacy" paper. The mark in the calendar that anchored modern quantum hardware reporting; subsequent classical recreations narrowed the gap but did not retract the claim.
A bibliography is opinionated by definition — what gets in, in what order, and how it is described. We treat these choices as editorial, not technical.