Quantum Korea 2026

AQC is developing microwave micro-electronics that can be integrated on a superconducting aluminium on-silicon chip. With target qubit counts reaching 105 qubits by 2033, miniaturising circulators suitable for large-scale fabrica on and integra on is a challenge.

AQC’s first product goal is to design and fabricate on-chip superconducting circulators with
a footprint <0.01 mm2.  The micrograph and performance chart shows a genera on 3 device designed, fabricated, and measured by AQC. 

AQC was founded by Prof Tom Stace and A/Prof Arkady Fedorov, based on IP created in the ARC Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems, to provide micro-electronic analogue control hardware for quantum computing makers.  This includes circulators, which are the hardest element to miniaturise, but includes other elements, such as amplifiers.

AQC’s goal is to licence the underlying circulator designs into large-scale quantum computer hardware development, as developer roadmaps take them beyond 104 qubits.  

As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. For more than a century, we've been improving the lives of people everywhere with our science.

We invented fast WiFi, polymer banknotes and extended wear contact lenses.

And we have a long history in quantum sensing, superconducting technologies, and quantum engineering and fabrication.

We work with industry, government and the research community to turn science into solutions. We have a strong research translational focus and cross-sector reach, supporting the shift of quantum technologies from lab to real-world impact.

Eigensystems focus is on identifying where quantum methods provide practical advantage and delivering solutions that can be used today.

We work across education, enterprise, finance, banking, research, and direct-to-consumer channels.

Our Quokka platform combines a compact 30 error-free qubit quantum computing device with a cloud-connected learning environment that is purpose-built to make hands-on quantum learning reliable, engaging, and scalable.

Quokka supports a structured suite of quantum education content, ranging from introductory quantum literacy through to advanced quantum computing for students and professionals alike.

The content is delivered through a browser-based learning system, enabling rapid onboarding and straightforward curriculum integration.

Designed for scaled deployment, Quokka provides predictable access and consistent behaviour without any specialist laboratories, quantum expertise, job queues or reliance on shared external resources.

Eigensystems has developed agile content capability to rapidly deploy quantum computing education to market segments.

Emergence Quantum is a commercial research and development company building the integrated hardware and foundational technology needed to scale quantum and next-generation computing systems.

The company is led by world-class founders David Reilly and Thomas Ohki, who combine deep scientific credentials with significant operating experience across large corporate, defence and government environments.

The company specialises in cryogenic control electronics, readout and scalable control systems — the engineering layer that allows qubits to be operated and quantum computers to become useful at scale.

Its approach is qubit-agnostic, spanning the leading physical platforms including spin, superconducting, photonic and ion-trap qubits, with applications extending to quantum sensing, energy-efficient classical computing and next-generation data centres.

Innofocus Photonics Technology is an Australian advanced-manufacturing company developing next-generation photonic nanomanufacturing and metrology platforms for quantum technologies, integrated photonics, and AI infrastructure. Headquartered in Melbourne, Innofocus enables researchers and industry partners to rapidly design, fabricate, and characterise quantum photonic chips (QPCs), photonic integrated circuits (PICs), optical interconnects, and advanced sensing systems.

The company's proprietary technologies combine intelligent 3D laser nanofabrication with high-precision in-situ 3D optical metrology, significantly accelerating the translation of research into commercial products while reducing reliance on costly cleanroom infrastructure. Working with leading universities, research institutes, and industrial partners across Australia, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North America, Innofocus is helping build Australia's sovereign capability in photonic manufacturing and supporting the development of next-generation of quantum-enabled industries.

Innofocus Vision: Enabling a smarter and greener future through breakthrough photonic nanomanufacturing.

Lumina Corp is a full-service thin-film lithium tantalate (LiTaO₃) photonic integrated circuit foundry purpose-built for performance and flexibility. We are proud to offer world leading visible-light compatible modulators and PICs which combines the strong electro-optic response and low optical loss of lithium tantalate with a fully customizable tape-out model so partners move from concept to fabricated device without the constraints of fixed process design kits and expensive masks.

We offer periodic poling as a service for PPLT devices, enabling efficient nonlinear and frequency-conversion functionality alongside high-speed modulation. From narrow single-mode waveguides to dense waveguide arrays, our process supports operation across the visible-to-telecom spectrum, with rigorous insertion-loss and crosstalk characterization at every stage.

Whether you're developing electro-optic modulators, frequency combs, or quantum photonic circuits, Lumina Corp provides the foundry capability and engineering partnership to bring demanding designs into reality.

Q-CTRL is a globally leading quantum technology company and has world-class capability in creating successful commercial products from quantum technology.

Q-CTRL’s quantum control infrastructure software for R&D professionals, quantum technology hardware vendors and enterprise end users provides a unique capability accelerating the pathway to the first useful quantum computers.

This foundational technology underpins Q-CTRL’s development of novel software ruggedised quantum sensors for defense and navigation.

Quantum Brilliance is focused on the design, fabrication, and manufacturing of compact, durable diamond quantum devices that function at room temperature. This full-stack hardware and software company, with locations in Australia and Germany, is on a mission to facilitate the mass deployment of quantum technology and its integration into everyday devices and high-performance computing systems.

Contact: Mark Luo | CEO & Co-founder
Email: mark.luo@quantum-brilliance.com

Dr Qiang Sun is a researcher within RMIT Quantum, a multidisciplinary initiative spanning quantum sensing, photonics, materials, computing, and industry translation. His work focuses on developing technologies that enable objective measurement of brain function, with applications in concussion, neurological disorders, and brain health.

He currently leads a translational research project developing a hardware-agnostic magnetoencephalography (MEG) software platform designed to support emerging quantum sensing technologies, including optically pumped magnetometers and diamond-based quantum sensors. By integrating sensing hardware, advanced signal processing, artificial intelligence, and computational modelling, the project aims to enable more accessible and scalable approaches to functional brain imaging.

As part of the RMIT Applied Quantum Technologies (RAQT) Centre, Dr Sun is seeking opportunities for collaboration in quantum sensing and magnetometry, quantum materials and diamond technologies, quantum photonics, advanced modelling and simulation, AI-assisted signal processing, and healthcare innovation, with a focus on translating research into practical technologies and commercial outcomes.

Silex’s Sydney production facility houses the first highly enriched Silicon Production Plant in Australia, with the capability to manufacture commercial ‘Quantum Silicon’ (enriched silicon-28) products, produced from ‘Zero-Spin’ halo-silane, in multiple product forms.

Silex has the capacity to produce two different forms of Quantum Silicon, which are compatible with silicon quantum chip fabrication technologies and advanced semiconductor chips for thermal dissipation management:

- Quantum Silane gas ─ used in chemical vapour deposition (CVD)-based processes utilised for quantum chip fabrication
- Quantum Silicon solid ─ used in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)-based processes utilised for quantum chip fabrication.

Product Specifications:

- Isotopic Purity ─ 99.99% to 99.9999% silicon-28 (depending on customer requirements)
- Chemical Purity ─ 4N to 6N (depending on customer requirements)

Silex’s Quantum Silicon products are expected to be available in CY 2027 for domestic and international customers.

A/Prof Ting Rei Tan is an experimental physicist developing hybrid qubit–oscillator quantum systems using trapped ions for hardware-efficient error-corrected quantum computing, quantum simulation of chemical dynamics, and precision sensing.

At the University of Sydney, he leads the Quantum Control Laboratory, where his group develops programmable trapped-ion platforms and quantum control techniques for continuous-variable and discrete-variable quantum information processing.

His research connects machine-enabled quantum control, logical encoding in oscillators, and Hamiltonian engineering, with applications in scalable quantum computing, molecular and chemical dynamics, and quantum-enhanced measurement.

His work has produced high-impact experimental demonstrations in trapped-ion quantum logic, Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill logical qubits, quantum simulation of non-adiabatic chemistry, continuous-variable entanglement, and multi-parameter sensing.

He also leads Australian and internationally funded research programs and collaborations spanning physics, chemistry, and quantum technology translation.

UQ researchers are world leaders in applying quantum technologies to health and biomedical sciences, decarbonisation and energy, finance and cybersecurity, and sport. UQ experts are advancing quantum technologies across a wide range of application areas, including:

• Disease treatment and imaging diagnostics
• Chemical design and the generation of clean energy and efficient energy storage solutions
• Quantum sensing technologies
• Quantum computing and advanced data processing
• Photonic computing (theoretical and experimental)
• Quantum life sciences
• Quantum chemistry
• Superconducting quantum computing (theoretical and experimental)
• Quantum biotechnology