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AQT is expanding
October 2020: AQT adds office space for development and production
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.
AQT quantum computer leverages Cirq for algorithm development
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.
New investors to support AQT
August 2019: Recently AQT closed a deal with the Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH (FFG) and University of Innsbruck (UIBK).
AQT co-founder is awarded Bell Prize
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.
AQT at European Forum Alpbach
AQT co-founders Thomas Monz and Rainer Blatt are going to attend the European Forum Alpbach 2019. On August 16-22, they host a introductory seminar on quantum technologies and present the Quantum Showcase Austria.
AQT co-founders receive prestigious Chinese science award
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.
European Quantum Technologies Kick-Off meeting in Vienna
The initiative to keep Europe at the forefront of quantum technologie development is about to start ...
Quantum chemistry with trapped ions
Chemistry calculations - one of the most promising applications for quantum computers.
AWS PreSeed funding received
The initiative to keep Europe at the forefront of quantum technologie development is about to start ...
Federation of Industrialists Tirol joins AQT
The initiative to keep Europe at the forefront of quantum technologie development is about to start ...
Scalable factoring with trapped ions
Cyber security relies on factoring being a numerically hard problem, but a quantum computer can factor efficiently ...
Topological quantum error correction
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.
