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February 8th, 2021
February 2021: AQT and quantum software start-up Multiverse combine their forces to create the future
January 28th, 2021
January 2021: AQT and collaborators publish 24 qubit GHZ entanglement in room-temperature setup housed in two 19-inch racks
January 21st, 2021
January 2021: AQT receives Living Standards Award for "Developing Future Technologies"
October 31st, 2020
October 2020: AQT competes in the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year
October 10th, 2020
October 2020: AQT adds office space for development and production
June 15th, 2020
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 9th, 2020
June 2020: World Economic Forum considers AQT poised to have a significant impact on business and society
May 21st, 2020
May 2020: 25 years ago the seminal Cirac-Zoller paper that laid the foundation for a trapped-ion quantum computer appeared in PRL.
April 23rd, 2020
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 6th, 2020
April 2020: Quantum hardware start-up AQT and quantum software start-up HQS and join their forces.
January 30th, 2020
January 2020: AQT co-founder Rainer Blatt receives honorary doctorate from the Complutense University of Madrid.
November 27th, 2019
AQT researchers and colleagues have demonstrated a new method to benchmark different quantum computer platforms.
November 6th, 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 16th, 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 30th, 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.
