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A snapshot of what people are building, from music and art to tools and markets.
Quantum & Qollab
Research notes, opinions and industry news, plus what the Qollab team is shipping.
Google withheld an ECDSA circuit
A forged zero-knowledge proof, an independent reconstruction, and an agent-driven leaderboard. What the episode says about checkable work.
Cross-Resonance Gate: Slices and Heatmaps
How the ZX entangling rate and static ZZ vary with detuning and drive amplitude, plotted from the PRA 2020 cross-resonance formulas.
Pulse Shapes and Envelopes, Visualized
How microwave pulses are shaped to control a quantum chip: Gaussian and sinusoidal envelopes, and the modulated pulses behind common gates.
Wigner Functions for Single-Qubit Quantum Gates
Pauli rotations rendered as Wigner functions, animated in two and three dimensions, with the density-operator and Bloch-vector groundwork.
Rabi Oscillations: Visualizing Excited-State Probability
A primer on the quantum dynamics of a driven two-level system, visualizing excited-state probability under the rotating-wave approximation (RWA).
A Sampling-Budget & Bit-String Analogy for Qubit Classifications
A Sampling-Budget & Bit-String Analogy for Qubit Classifications. A notebook by Onri Jay Benally, republished with permission.
What's new on Qollab
Playground upgrades, new features, and shipped improvements. The running changelog.
Meet the Spring 2026 cohort
13 teams building on real IonQ hardware: tools, music, visualizations, and games. The lineup, project by project.
Become a Qollab Ambassador
Champion quantum in your community and earn monthly IonQ hardware credits.
Creative Challenge: submissions closed
Grants and IonQ compute credits for open-source quantum projects. The call is closed — see what the funded teams built.