ATIQ (BMBF)
PROJECT PARTNER:
- LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER | Germany
- AMO GMBH| Aachen, Germany
- AKKA INDUSTRY CONSULTING GMBH | Ulm, Germany
- BLACK SEMICONDUCTOR GMBH | Aachen, Germany
- ELEQTRON GMBH | Siegen, Germany
- FIBERBRIDGE PHOTONICS GMBH | Aachen, Germany
- FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY ILT / FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING IOF | Germany
- INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG | Neubiberg, Germany
- JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY MAINZ | Germany
- JOS QUANTUM GMBH | Frankfurt, Germany
- LPKF LASER & ELECTRONICS AG | Garbsen, Germany
- PHYSIKALISCH_TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT (PTB) | Braunschweig, Germany
- PARITY QUANTUM COMPUTING GERMANY GMBH | Munich, Germany
- QUARTIQ GMBH | Berlin, Germany
- QUBIG GMBH | Munich, Germany
- RHINE-WESTPHALIA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF AACHEN| Germany
- TOPTICA PHOTONICS AG | Gräfelfing, Germany
- TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG | Germany
- UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN | Germany
ASSOCIATE PARTNER:
- AQT GERMANY GMBH | Garching, Germany
- BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM | Ingelheim upon Rhine, Germany
- COVESTRO AG | Leverkusen, Germany
- DLR-SI | Hannover, Germany
- Volkswagen AG | Wolfsburg, Germany
- QUDORA TECHNOLOGIES GMBH | Braunschweig, Germany
Quantum computing demonstrators based on trapped ions.
QUBIG is participating in a development project supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). ATIQ's goal is to develop a first generation of reliable, user-friendly and 24/7 available quantum computing demonstrators based on ion trap technology, within 30 months.
MOTIVATION
Trapped-ion quantum processors have the advantage of "all-to-all connectivity" and have gate operations and coherence times of the highest quality. In the ATIQ project, reliable trapped-ion quantum computing demonstrators are being developed for complementary use cases, including quantum chemistry, optimization problems with fully parallelizable gates, and credit risk assignment, with the goal of demonstrating a quantum advantage that has practical utility.
GOAL AND APPROACH
Along the way, there are three key technological challenges that ATIQ will address:
- alignment-free optical preparation, manipulationand readout,
- reliable cryogenic electronics integrated into the trap and reliable trap technology, and
- real-time control and automation for24/7 operation and user access. Where appropriate, these challenges will be addressed as part of a hardware-software co-design strategy to tailor the algorithms and compilers to the characteristics of the quantum computing hardware and to optimize the hardware architecture for specific algorithms.
INNOVATION AND PERSPECTIVES
Within 30 months, an initial generation of demonstrators will be made available with 24/7 user access for 10 qubits and >99% Q-scores in all-to-all gate operation, including hybrid computational capabilities through a connection to an HPC. By the end of the project, the performance of the systems will be increased to 40+ qubits, with single and multi-qubit gate grades of over 99.9% and 99.5%, respectively.
