This article outlines some selected events from the numerous activities held during the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, elucidating the core concepts, themes and developmental trends explored within these initiatives. QuantumFest 2025 (USA), QuanTour (Germany), Quantum Curio (USA), Communicating Quantum Science and Technology to Public (South Korea), Quantum Crossroads (New Zealand) have shown synergy in various branches of quantum science and technology. SPQEO journal follows the world trends in quantum innovation and publishes appropriate articles, in particular, on the effects of charge carrier interaction, peculiarities of waves propagation in optical fibres for communication etc.
This article outlines some selected events from the numerous activities held during the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, elucidating the core concepts, themes and developmental trends explored within these initiatives. QuantumFest 2025 (USA), QuanTour (Germany), Quantum Curio (USA), Communicating Quantum Science and Technology to Public (South Korea), Quantum Crossroads (New Zealand) have shown synergy in various branches of quantum science and technology. SPQEO journal follows the world trends in quantum innovation and publishes appropriate articles, in particular, on the effects of charge carrier interaction, peculiarities of waves propagation in optical fibres for communication etc.
2019 promises to be a crucial year for the emerging field of quantum technologies. On the funding side, the Quantum Technologies Flagship of the European Union has kicked off with the first 20 projects,1 and the total funding is expected to reach €1bn over the coming decade.2 Other world regions are not being left behind: In the US, Congress has recently passed the National Quantum Initiative Act, likewise a 10-year program with a budget of $1.3bn. This bold concept is accompanied by further support from government agencies such as the DOE and NSF. Research activities are being intensified not only in academia and research laboratories but also in the R&D centers of giant corporations such as Google, IBM, Microsoft and in many other companies. A key goal is to couple ever more qubits and to demonstrate a working quantum computer that will be able to achieve the ‘holy grail’ of quantum supremacy in computational power – if not yet today or tomorrow, then certainly in the years to come. Last but not least, the Chinese government has announced the provision of no less than $10bn to create a National Laboratory for Quantum Information Sciences. China has already taken crucial steps in creating a quantum network, including satellite-based communication. So, clearly the world is not short of opportunities in pursuing new and exciting quantum science, as well as its applications. On the other hand, it is more than obvious that there are still many fundamental scientific questions to be solved, not to speak of the development of real technologies that are still in their infancy to be implemented on a broader scale. Our journal Advanced Quantum Technologies (QUTE) (www.advquantumtech.com), a young member of the renowned Advanced journal family published by Wiley-VCH, aims to provide a peer-reviewed high quality forum for these topics, ranging from the theoretical basics to future device applications. Key areas include quantum-based communication, computation, control, engineering, information, metrology, optics, sensing and simulation, as well as adjacent areas such as nanophotonics, quasiparticle excitations, topological materials, superconductors, micro- and nano-electromechanical systems, ultracold atoms and others. The first three issues published in 2018 already provided a glimpse of our intended broad topical spectrum, with Reviews on continuous-variable quantum key distribution,3 non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein-like condensation4 and integrated quantum photonics based on diamond,5 accompanied by original research contributions as Communications or Full Papers. Now, what do we have in store for the New Year: The present issue features, for example, a Review on topological insulators and semimetals for magnetoresistive sensors6 and a Progress Report on the Dicke model being relevant for quantum optics.7 Later during 2019, we also plan to present two special issues on the topics of Quantum Machine Learning and Photonic Quantum Technologies that will aim to provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in these respective fields. Most importantly, please be reminded that the journal is open for original research submissions at www.editorialmanager.com/advquantumtech as well as your proposals for review-type contributions that you may send to advquantumtech@wiley.com at any time. We will also use forthcoming conference opportunities such as the APS March Meeting in Boston, several DPG (German Physical Society) meetings as well as various events in Asia to meet with you personally to get to know your research, to invite you to submit as well to learn more about the publication needs of the quantum community. Feel free to get in touch with us through any physical or virtual channel! For those of you who might be new to our journals: Online submission and online publication (no print) in QUTE are completely cost-free, and the journal is also free-to-read for anybody during the whole year. If you would like to make use of open-access options, Wiley OnlineOpen with various open access licenses is available through an increasing number of national, consortial or funder agreements (such as the ‘DEAL’ soon to be implemented in Germany8) or via payment of the respective article publication charge by your institution or funder. Details are provided in the ‘Contribute’ section of our homepage. You may also post a preprint of your manuscript to arXiv.org or similar servers, or to a scientific collaboration network that is compliant with the STM sharing principles.9 When doing so, please make sure that the journal reference is always up to date, including the DOI and/or URL of your journal-published article. More information on general article sharing principles is available on howcanishareit.com. These should help you to achieve maximum visibility both of your newest publication and of our young journal, as will news stories on selected top content on our news portal advancedsciencenews.com. We look forward to exciting quantum times and to reading (or hearing) from you! The Editorial Team of Advanced Quantum Technologies
Advanced Quantum Technologies (QUTE) as a part of the prestigious Advanced journal portfolio, is a high-impact international journal disseminating the best peer-reviewed research in quantum science and technologies, including but not limited to quantum optics, quantum computing, quantum information, topological materials, superconductors, nanophotonics, quantum metrology, and micro- and nano-electromechanical systems. QUTE published 513 articles, including 418 Research Articles and 95 Reviews from established and emerging researchers since launched in late 2018 (according to Web of Science, December 03, 2023). Our listing of the most accessed articles can be found here, which illustrates the broad range of topics that have been covered by this young and multidisciplinary journal already. Moreover, the QUTE cover gallery provides a colorful graphical showcase of excellent research from the past 5 years. In this way, the journal is an important support for researchers to fulfill their mission and maximize their scientific discoveries. We would like to point you to some of the recently published highlight articles on various relevant topics, such as an inter-European quantum network (DOI 10.1002/qute.202200061), atom–photon hybrid systems (DOI 10.1002/qute.202300090), linear optical universal quantum gates (DOI 10.1002/qute.202300009), and quantum materials (DOI 10.1002/qute.202200131). Special issues on Quantum Sensing, guest-edited by Tongcang Li (Purdue University), Ren-bao Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Chong Zu (Washington University in St. Louis); Quantum Machine Learning, guest-edited by Lucas Lamata (Universidad de Sevilla) and José D. Martín-Guerrero (Universitat de València); and Photonic Quantum Technologies, guest-edited by Mohamed Benyoucef (QUTE Editorial Advisory Board, University of Kassel), are soon to follow. As a recent addition to our Editorial Advisory Board, we welcome Xinhua Peng of the University of Science and Technology of China and Kaiyou Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Xinhua Peng's research interest is quantum computation, quantum simulation, and quantum control using magnetic resonance technology, and Prof. Kaiyou Wang's skills are in spintronics and antiferromagnetism. The entire Advisory Board representing a wide range of research topics is listed here. Advanced Quantum Technologies offers authors the option to publish their articles Open Access, which means the articles are immediately free to read, download, and share. If you get ready to submit, please don't forget to ensure funder compliance, check eligibility for funding, and learn more about open access, which can help you compare the open-access policies of your funder or institution with the options available at Advanced Quantum Technologies and Wiley. Please also check and read about our transformative, institutional, and funder agreements available in many world regions, and discover the different options for publishing open access, copyright licenses (the alternative way to publish cost-free in QUTE), and more. We sincerely hope that you enjoy reading the articles in this scientific journal and look forward to your submissions for publication in Advanced Quantum Technologies. The Editorial Team of Advanced Quantum Technologies
The APEC Quantum Science and Technology (QST) Forum was held on October 21–23, 2025, in Gwangju, as a satellite event of the 2025 APEC Summit and as part of the activities for the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The forum provided a platform for discussions on disparities in regional quantum capabilities, research infrastructure, education and workforce development, and frameworks for science diplomacy. It highlighted quantum technologies as a potential general-purpose technology and emphasized the need for coordinated multilateral collaboration to support sustainable scientific and technological development in the Asia-Pacific region. This report presents an overview of the planning background, program structure, and key outcomes of the forum, with particular attention to implications for international collaboration and science and technology policy.
South Africa has a long history in quantum research with an explosion of activity in the recent decade. Bolstered by this momentum, in March 2021, the South African Quantum Technologies Initiative (SA QuTI) was formally launched by the South African Department of Science and Innovation with the first seed funding released in September 2021. SA QuTI puts quantum technology firmly on the national agenda with ambitious aims for a quantum industry in South Africa. Here, the authors report this to the international quantum community and share their perspectives on what this means for South Africa's quantum future.
The series of Central European Workshops on Quantum Optics looks back on a successful annual sequence of ten meetings, previously held at locations in Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and most recently in Germany. The goal to provide a forum for quantum optics specialists from both Central Europe and elsewhere has always been accompanied by an attempt to provide a small-sized and affordable meeting. Together with the contributions of the participants and the many discussion during the meetings, the special flair of this series of Workshops has become well established. This special issue of Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics is devoted to the tenth anniversary Workshop, held during 4–7th April 2003 at Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. It contains selected articles by the participants of the Workshop, who came not only from Central Europe but also from other parts of the world. Their contributions cover a variety of subjects, reflecting the fact that, stimulated by the progress of experimental techniques, quantum optics has become a rapidly growing field of research.