14. March 2023

Invitation to the 3rd Austauschforum Quantencomputing

3rd Austauschforum Quantencomputing From Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 6 pmUntil Wednesday 3 May 2023, 3 pm at CCH Congress Center HamburgHall 4, Foyer 4Live × Online Since the last exchange forum on quantum computing in July 2022, our…
21. February 2023

Project QSea I & II: Kick-off for a modular and scalable ion trap quantum computer from Hamburg

On the way to the industrial use of quantum computing, the scalability of quantum processors is one of the biggest challenges. With our ion trap project QSea II, we are expanding our know-how in this area together with…
15. February 2023

Ion trap quantum computers from Hamburg: Kick-off with Universal Quantum

We are pleased to welcome our industrial partner Universal Quantum to the Innovationszentrum Hamburg and thus also to the QCI: Over the next four years, Universal Quantum will build two prototype ion trap quantum computers for us, the…
9. February 2023

Project Xaphiro: Kick-off for the ion trap consortium Qudora × NXP at the Innovation center Hamburg

Another big step for ion trap quantum computers from Hamburg: We are pleased about the joint kick-off with Qudora and NXP, who will build a prototype ion trap quantum computer for us in the Xaphiro project. The goal…
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18. January 2023

AQuRA × anabrid: Kick-off for the first industry & research partnership in the QCI

The ecosystem of quantum computing comes to life when research findings efficiently find their way into application in industry and business – and conversely, the needs of industry and business motivate research. With the DLR Quantum Computing Initiative…
12. January 2023

QCI awards industry contracts worth 13 million euros for spin enabling technologies

Qubits are the processing units of quantum computers. They can be created in various different ways. One option is the creation of solid-state spin qubits in materials such as diamonds, in which qubits get stuck in defects that…
22. December 2022

Kick-off for our photonic quantum computer developed by QuiX Quantum

DLR QCI welcomes QuiX Quantum at our DLR Innovation Center in Ulm. The startup will develop a prototype photonic quantum computer for us over the next four years. But before that, as early as 2023, it will provide…
12. December 2022

QCI orders NV center quantum computers worth 57 million euros

Diamonds are fascinating structures made of carbon – they are harder than any other natural material, they are prized in jewellery, and they can advance quantum computing. One promising area of technological advances in quantum computing is the…
23. November 2022

Quantum Computing: Basic knowledge in five video lectures

Although quantum mechanics may be difficult, understanding how a quantum computer works is possible – if it is explained well. In this series of lectures, DLR experts will explain how to make calculations with qubits, what distinguishes a…
9. November 2022

DLR teams up with in­dus­try to de­vel­op Ger­man quan­tum com­put­ers

Under DLR’s leadership, German industry, research institutions and start-ups are forming the DLR Quantum Computing Initiative The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has granted the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR)…
29. October 2022

Startups and companies develop quantum computers based on ion traps

Charged atoms cannot escape from an ion trap, as they are confined by an electromagnetic field. A laser, radio waves or microwaves can then change the state of the charged atoms (ions) in a targeted way, so that…
23. September 2022

Computing with light

Contract awarded as part of the DLR Quantum Computing Initiative Turning light particles into arithmetic building blocks offers great potential for building quantum computers. However, quantum processors based on light particles (photons) are less mature than other platforms….
1. August 2022

Call for pro­pos­als for the de­vel­op­ment of quan­tum com­put­ers based on neu­tral atoms

Prototype quantum computers with a number of different architectures are to be developed over the next four years as part of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Quantum Computing Initiative. DLR has published…
1. June 2022

DLR German/Canadian Partner Day: Pro­mo­tion of col­lab­o­ra­tions in the field of quan­tum com­put­ing

The DLR Ger­man/Cana­di­an Part­ner­ing Day brought to­geth­er com­pa­nies and re­search in­sti­tu­tions from Cana­da and Ger­many that are work­ing in quan­tum com­put­ing or with quan­tum tech­nolo­gies in gen­er­al. The par­tic­i­pants met at the DLR In­no­va­tion Cen­ter in Ulm. At…
22. February 2022

How ana­logue com­put­ers sup­port quan­tum com­put­ing

Contract awarded to anabrid GmbH as part of the DLR Quantum Computing Initiative. In the 1960s, computers looked like cupboard-sized grey boxes, with control panels full of knobs, switches and colourful cables. These were the analogue computers that…
20. December 2021

Call for pro­pos­als to con­struct pho­ton­ic quan­tum pro­ces­sors

The goal is to obtain a prototype photonic quantum processor that is scalable and error correctable. It should be able to run generic algorithms with a high degree of user friendliness. As part of the German Aerospace Center…