International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
On June 7, 2024, the United Nations officially declared 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), marking 100 years of quantum mechanics. This global celebration will feature events and activities worldwide, helping people everywhere explore the impact of quantum science and its role in shaping the future.
Highlights from Springer Nature journals and books
The Editorial by Kai Bongs, Editor-in-Chief of EPJ Quantum Technology (EPJ QT), emphasizes the need to expand awareness beyond the research community, ensuring industries and future generations understand the transformative potential of quantum technologies. He reflects on the journal’s role in fostering innovation, from its inception in 2014 to its current focus on bridging fundamental research with real-world applications and invites the community to engage in shaping the future of this rapidly advancing field.
The Special Issue "Quantum Information in India" in the Quantum Information Processing journal, part of a thematic special issue series highlighting quantum information advancements across different geographical regions, showcases the exceptional contributions of Indian scientists and the initiatives planned under the National Quantum Mission (NQM). Over the past few decades, quantum information science has seen remarkable progress globally, with Indian researchers playing a pivotal role.
The Quantum Machine Intelligence journal presents its newly launched special issue, "Empowering Quantum Machine Intelligence Through High-Performance Computing." This issue explores cutting-edge advancements at the intersection of HPC and QMI, showcasing novel methodologies, architectures, and applications that push the limits of computational intelligence. It aims to foster collaboration between the HPC, AI, and quantum computing communities, driving interdisciplinary innovation.
Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin’ s book, Quantum Mechanics and Avant-Garde Music, explores the deep connections between quantum physics and music, where concepts like uncertainty, entanglement, and relativity resonate in the works of Stockhausen, Cage, and Xenakis.
The Probabilistic World, a book by Christof Wetterich, demonstrates how all quantum laws follow from the standard properties of classical probabilities and proposes a new fundamental probabilistic view on physics.
The fully revised third edition of the essential graduate textbook, Quantum Optics by D. F. Walls, and Gerard J. Milburn, contains an elementary introduction to modern quantum optics and new chapters on quantum control, quantum opto-mechanics, quantum communication and computation.
A Nature special titled “A Century of Quantum Physics”, accompanied by an Associated Editorial includes essays, interviews, and commentaries on recent breakthroughs, future directions, and emerging quantum technologies.
Nature Photonics features a dedicated editorial titled “A Year Full of Quantum Celebrations”, reflecting on the broader impact of the quantum centenary.
Lastly, the Nature Reviews series, Nature Reviews Materials and Nature Reviews Physics, has curated an insightful Collection of articles that explore key themes in quantum science, offering deeper perspectives on its past, present, and future.
More developments to come throughout the year as we join the international community in celebrating IYQ 2025!
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Quantum Information Processing
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EPJ Quantum Technology
This journal covers theoretical and experimental advances in subjects related to the emergence of quantum technology: a new praxis for controlling the quantum world.
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Quantum Machine Intelligence
This journal publishes original articles on cutting edge experimental and theoretical research in all areas of quantum artificial intelligence.
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International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
The 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ) recognizes 100 years since the initial development of quantum mechanics. Join us in engaging with quantum science and technology and celebrating throughout the year!
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Quantum Information in Japan
Japan has always been pioneering quantum information science and technologies, selecting it as a key field at many levels. This thematic issue entitled, "Quantum Information in Japan" is planned to showcase the outstanding research activities performed by the Japanese research groups in the broad area of quantum information.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Quantum Information Theory
• Quantum Computing
• Quantum Communication Networks,
• Quantum Key Distribution
• Quantum Sensing
• Quantum Materials
• Quantum Thermodynamics
• Quantum Game Theory
• Quantum Zeno Effect
Each submission will undergo the usual peer review process as per the journal policy. However, in addition to the usual format, the published manuscript will also contain a short description of the research group(s) contributing to the article. The guest editors will review this part to facilitate potential collaboration.
Publishing Model: Hybrid
Deadline: Sep 30, 2026
Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning 2025
This topical collection will include extended versions of original results presented at the 9th International Conference on Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning, QTML 2025, which was held on 16-21 November 2025 in Singapore
QTML is an annual international conference focusing on the interdisciplinary field at the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning.
This call is for all the unpublished results that were presented at the conference either orally or as a poster and that can be extended (possibly taking into account the comments from the audience) into a full research paper.
Topics include but are not limited to:
• Quantum algorithms for machine learning applications
• Hybrid quantum-classical approaches for learning and optimization
• Encoding and processing of data in quantum systems
• Theoretical foundations of quantum learning
• Quantum variational circuits and their applications
• Quantum state and process tomography with learning-based approaches
• Tensor methods and quantum-inspired machine learning
• Quantum state reconstruction from data
• Quantum-enhanced robustness in machine learning models
• Machine learning techniques for experimental quantum information science
• Fuzzy logic in quantum machine learning
• Quantum kernel methods and their applications
Publishing Model: Hybrid
Deadline: Aug 31, 2026
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