University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a research university whose physics and computer science departments host one of Europe's largest academic quantum computing efforts, spanning trapped-ion hardware, photonic quantum computing, superconducting circuits and quantum algorithms and theory. Its groups have produced several spin-out companies, including Oxford Quantum Circuits (superconducting) and Oxford Ionics (trapped ion), and Oxford leads or participates in UK national quantum programmes such as the Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub. It is a research and training institution rather than a commercial vendor, and its work is largely grant-funded.

AI-written profile · not yet reviewed · 17 October 2026

Headquarters: Oxford, United Kingdom
Status: Private

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Quantum Zeitgeist16 October 2026

Strontium links atoms, calcium preserves entanglement for longer

University of Oxford physicists entangled strontium and calcium atoms in a quantum network across two separate locations. Calcium atoms held the entanglement for more than 10 seconds, while the experiment produced shared quantum states involving up to four atoms.

OutlookPlausible

This hybrid-species scheme could enable a quantum repeater node to hold strontium-generated photonic links in long-lived calcium memory, allowing asynchronous entanglement swapping across metropolitan-scale networks within the next two years.

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