Project DIAQ: Kick-off for the manufacture of diamond quantum hardware

Ulm continues to develop into the focal point for our NV center activities: With a kick-off event at the Innovation Center Ulm, work on the QCI project DIAQ officially began today, which provides our manufacturers of NV center hardware with high-quality diamond material for their room temperature -will provide quantum computing.

NV center-based qubits are a particularly promising platform for quantum computing and other quantum technologies. That’s why we not only invest in quantum computers based on NV centers, but also develop and expand the associated ecosystem in a targeted manner. By closely dovetailing our NV center orders and the necessary enabling technologies, we are creating the basis for further technological maturity of the platform and strengthening the NV center ecosystem in Germany and Europe.

In January, we commissioned two startups to provide essential basic technologies: Advanced Quantum produces SQuAp, a spin qubit analysis platform for color center-based quantum hardware for us. With DIAQ, Diatope supplies us with diamond material for room-temperature quantum computers.

DIAQ

Diamond material for room temperature quantum computer

Spin-enabling Technologies

NV center-based qubits are a particularly promising platform for quantum computing and other quantum technologies. That’s why we not only invest in quantum computers based on NV centers, but also develop and expand the associated ecosystem in a targeted manner. By closely dovetailing our NV center orders and the necessary enabling technologies, we are creating the basis for further technological maturity of the platform and strengthening the NV center ecosystem in Germany and Europe.

The DIAQ project for the start-up Diatope has now started with a kick-off event at the innovation center in Ulm. Diatope is now moving into the offices and laboratories and is building a production system for qubits from NV centers in diamond layers at the Ulm site.

“Various startups and DLR research groups from the field of NV centers and diamond technology come together in Ulm. I look forward to the fact that we can work together here and learn from each other in order to use synergy effects.”

Dr. Barbara Grüner-Dvorak, Projekt Manager DLR QCI at the kick-off

Technology: Spin-enabling Technologies

Qubits based on solid-state spins promise good miniaturization and high scalability. This makes them well suited for the construction of quantum computers. However, their targeted and reproducible production with known characteristics is still a challenge. Within the framework of QCI we are developing two supporting technologies: a universal qualification system for spin qubits in solids and a process for the reproducible production of NV centers in diamond. In doing so, we support both the development of our own quantum computers based on NV centers and the quantum computing ecosystem.

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