AQT receives Living Standards Award
January 2021: AQT receives Living Standards Award for "Developing Future Technologies"
AQT is Falling Walls finalist
October 2020: AQT competes in the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year
PennyLane by Xanadu supports AQT quantum computers
June 2020: The AQT quantum computers are now supported by PennyLane, an open-source project by Xanadu for quantum machine learning, automatic differentiation, and optimization.
AQT awarded as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum
June 2020: World Economic Forum considers AQT poised to have a significant impact on business and society
Trapped-ion quantum computing turns 25
May 2020: 25 years ago the seminal Cirac-Zoller paper that laid the foundation for a trapped-ion quantum computer appeared in PRL.
AQT quantum computer becomes backend for t|ket⟩ quantum software
April 2020: The AQT quantum computer is now supported by t|ket⟩, the quantum software development kit of Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), via pytket.
AQT announces strategic partnership with HQS
April 2020: Quantum hardware start-up AQT and quantum software start-up HQS and join their forces.
Honorary doctorate for AQT co-founder Rainer Blatt
January 2020: AQT co-founder Rainer Blatt receives honorary doctorate from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Benchmarking the scalability and performance of quantum computers
November 2019: AQT researchers and colleagues have demonstrated a new method to benchmark different quantum computer platforms.
AQT now supports Qiskit as quantum software tool
November 2019: The AQT ion trap quantum computer now supports Qiskit, a prominent open-source quantum programming language initially created by IBM and developed by scientist all around the world.