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Small footprint, simple integration in a standard 19-inch rack and control over the laser light amplitude, frequency and phase – perfectly suitable for AMO experiments.

ISC High Performance
May 21 – 25, 2023
Hamburg, Germany
Stand G725

AQT successfully demonstrates a Quantum Volume of 128 on its 19-inch rack-compatible Quantum Computer system PINE. This achievement sets the record for a universal quantum computer that is designed, built, and located in Austria.

The European Innovation Council (EIC-Accelerator) awards AQT grants of up to EUR 2.5 million in combination with equity investments through the EIC Fund of EUR 0.5 to 15 million, or more.

On October 18, 2022, a parliamentary evening on the topic of Quantum took place in the Auditorium Friedrichstrasse in Berlin.

The Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, and Youth of the European Union, Mariya Gabriel, visited the facilities of AQT’s Quantum Computer Experience Center in Innsbruck.

The Quantum Internet Alliance has started a seven-year program to build an innovative quantum internet ecosystem in Europe.

AQT congratulates co-founder Rainer Blatt on his 70th birthday.

It was a great pleasure to represent AQT for the first time with our experts at the Long Night of Research.

Thanks to its compact design, low drift rate and full remote control, BEECH is perfect for laser stabilisation in demanding applications like quantum computing, simulation and optical clocks.

Join us in Munich 26-29 April 2022

February 2022: AQT and partners publish new white paper on quantum computing for finance

December 2021: trend. magazine lists AQT among Austria's top 100 startups

November 2021: Rainer Blatt receives prestigious honours from TUM and MPQ

October 2021: AQT is awarded as a Born Global Champion by the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

September 2021: We are happy to share the AQT receives the Tiroler Jungunternehmerpreis

June 2021: Our joint world record work with the AQTION collaboration is now published in PRX Quantum

April 2021: AQT is delighted and honored to be a founding member of the European Quantum Industry Consortium

March 2021: The Pine trap is now available as a stand-alone trap module or as a research accelerating experimental assembly

February 2021: AQT and quantum software start-up Multiverse combine their forces to create the future

January 2021: AQT and collaborators publish 24 qubit GHZ entanglement in room-temperature setup housed in two 19-inch racks

January 2021: AQT receives Living Standards Award for "Developing Future Technologies"

October 2020: AQT competes in the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year

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.

June 2020: World Economic Forum considers AQT poised to have a significant impact on business and society

May 2020: 25 years ago the seminal Cirac-Zoller paper that laid the foundation for a trapped-ion quantum computer appeared in PRL.

April 2020: The AQT quantum computer is now supported by t|ket⟩, the quantum software development kit of Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), via pytket.

April 2020: Quantum hardware start-up AQT and quantum software start-up HQS and join their forces.

January 2020: AQT co-founder Rainer Blatt receives honorary doctorate from the Complutense University of Madrid.

November 2019: AQT researchers and colleagues have demonstrated a new method to benchmark different quantum computer platforms.

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.

September 2019: Quantum algorithm developers can now have direct access to our quantum computer in Innsbruck. The Cirq framework developed by Google can be used to explore quantum algorithms on our trapped ions.

August 2019: We are delighted to announce that AQT co-founder Peter Zoller receives the John Stewart Bell Prize for his outstanding achievements in the field of quantum information processing.

April 2019: We are pleased to announce that two of the co-founders of AQT, Rainer Blatt and Peter Zoller, together with one of our board members, Ignacio Cirac, are awarded the Micius Prize, which is presented for the first time this year.

Chemistry calculations - one of the most promising applications for quantum computers.

Topological quantum error correction - one of the most promising stepping stones to scalable quantum computing - realized for the first time by the people around AQT.

Cyber security relies on factoring being a numerically hard problem, but a quantum computer can factor efficiently ...