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Bristol-based Siloton has secured an £8.4 million contract from Innovate UK to accelerate development of its handheld GiraffeOCT eye imaging system and complete clinical trials over two years.

Researchers at UChicago PME developed a computational framework that models the full optical cycle of spin defects in solids, including internal conversion, the energy-loss pathway that has resisted accurate prediction. Applied to nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond, it matched spectroscopy data; in silicon carbide divacancies, it revealed internal conversion strongly limits triplet excited-state lifetimes, resolving a long-standing theory-experiment discrepancy.

UK businesses developing quantum technologies are being backed with a share of £50 million through UKRI's Sensing and Positioning, Navigation and Timing competition, including MoniRail, Siloton and ColdQuanta UK.

Infleqtion has been awarded £9 million (~$12M) by Innovate UK to continue development of a deployable quantum radio frequency direction finding system under the Quantum Missions Primer programme.

Researchers at OIST have for the first time used electron spin alone to move a levitating centimeter-scale diamond, a quantum effect acting on an object massive enough to feel gravity. Nitrogen-vacancy centers in the diamond generate spin forces detected by a picometer-precision interferometer. The platform opens routes to testing quantum gravity and building ultrasensitive sensors for dark matter and gravitational waves.