The Annales des Mines devote two volumes to the second quantum revolution

Réalités industrielles, one of the series of the Annales des Mines, has published a two-volume issue titled La seconde révolution quantique : enjeux de souveraineté et de partenariats, coordinated by François Gerin, Frédéric Barbaresco and Fabrice Dupuy. The first volume appeared in May 2026, the second in August.

Volume 1 is about the industrial stakes: France's national strategy, the software infrastructure of quantum computing, how the emerging industry is financed, patents and standards; European action, including the defence project ADEQUADE; defence and security, from dual-use investment to aerospace and NATO's quantum initiatives; and the human side, training quantum engineers and attracting talent. Contributors include public officials, researchers from Inria and universities, and executives from Thales and Quantonation.

Volume 2 turns to applications and the world outside France: technical applications and the first quantum services, with contributions from ONERA, Orange, EDF R&D and Thales; international competition and cooperation, with chapters on North America, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sherbrooke and the United Arab Emirates; and a historical perspective.

The chapter that matters most for a watch on use cases is the one by Joseph Mikael, president of Le Lab Quantique, and Emmanuelle Vergnaud of Teratec, which gathers the needs identified by end users for a real use of high-performance quantum machines, looking ahead to a thousand logical qubits. Le Lab Quantique, which shared the issue on LinkedIn, says a broader collective reflection is planned by the end of 2026. Tables of contents and abstracts are freely available; the complete issues are distributed by the publisher.