News

Stay up to date with the latest research, achievements, events, collaborations, and other developments involving OCQT and its members.

Here we highlight advances in quantum science and technology at OIST, as well as activities connecting our researchers with the wider scientific and technology community.

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Research Update

Cybersecurity for the quantum era: OIST professor among team behind new international standard for post-quantum cryptography

Classic McEliece has been selected by the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) as a cryptographic algorithm capable of securing data in the age of quantum computing.

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Institutional News

OIST Hosts International Workshop on Solid-State Quantum Information Processing

The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) hosted the Solid State Systems for Quantum Information Processing (SQuIP) International Workshop from June 8–12, 2026. The workshop brought together approximately 60 participants from 13 countries to discuss recent advances and shared challenges in solid-state quantum information processing.

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Research Update

The complete evolution of spin glass from order to chaos

Seven years of refining black crystals have led to an experimentally confirmed definition of spin glass and set a new baseline for studying exotic materials.

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Institutional News

BAQ2026 Workshop Brings Together Experts in Biological, Artificial, and Quantum Intelligence

The Biological, Artificial, and Quantum Intelligence 2026 International Workshop (BAQ2026), held March 3–5, 2026 in Okinawa, brought together leading researchers from neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. With 30 invited speakers, guests, and organizers, along with around 20 OIST participants, the workshop fostered interdisciplinary discussions aimed at building new collaborations across these emerging fields.

Graphic illustration of the papers’ findings. A knob labelled with an alpha can be dialed between 0 and 1, showing how it affects the symmetry of two particles during an exchange operation, shown as two psis inside mathematical bracket notation.

Research Update

A new class of strange one-dimensional particles

For the first time, researchers describe the properties of one-dimensional anyons and provide the recipe for observing these particles with present-day setups.

03 February 2026

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Research Update

Quantum batteries could supercharge the future of quantum computing

A new quantum-battery‑powered architecture could make future quantum computers faster, more efficient and easier to scale.

29 January 2026

A 3D rendering of a pair of hands holding glowing bands of energy like a cat’s cradle. One of the bands fold inwards, reminiscent of the Mexican-hat-like momentum dispersion indicative of Floquet effects. The glowing orbs above the hands, one dark and the other light, represent the electron and hole that together form an exciton.

Research Update

Quantum ‘alchemy’ made feasible with excitons

Researchers demonstrate a powerful new approach to Floquet engineering, which for decades has sought to imbue ‘trivial’ materials with exotic quantum properties.

19 January 2026

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Institutional News

Two OIST professors elected as 2026 SPIE fellows

Professors Bill Munro and Síle Nic Chormaic recognized for their pioneering optics and photonics research

09 January 2026

Diamond defects coupled to microwave cavities emit powerful microwave pulses in breakthrough for quantum technologies

Research Update

Superradiant spins show teamwork at the quantum scale

Powerful self-driven microwave signals open new possibilities in quantum sensing and communication.

02 January 2026

Participants of OSP2025 in front of the summer school venue – OIST Seaside House.

Institutional News

Okinawa School in Physics returns with a renewed focus on quantum technologies

Ten years after its first edition, OIST’s flagship summer school enters a new era of interdisciplinary quantum research 

25 November 2025

Science Day Gunma 2025

Institutional News

Outreach Activity for High School Students: Co-hosting “Science Day Gunma 2025 – The World of Quantum Mechanics” with Gunma University

OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University) co-hosted “Science Day Gunma 2025 – The World of Quantum Mechanics” with Gunma University on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, at the Aramaki Campus of Gunma University. Targeting mainly high school students from Gunma Prefecture, the event featured seminars and individual discussions on the fundamentals of quantum technology and researchers’ careers, as well as explanations and hands-on experiences with quantum sensors and quantum computing (*). In addition, Asako Omi, former Vice Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, who has strong ties with OIST, attended the event and spoke about the promotion of science and technology and shared her expectations for the participating high school students.

18 November 2025

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Research Update

Peering inside 3D chaotic microcavities with X-ray vision

X-ray µCT enables noninvasive study of chaotic light dynamics, opening a new window for exploring 3D wave chaos, nonlinear optics, and quantum photonics.

11 November 2025