Pilot Line

  • Alain Pierrot: “Anyone who has launched a rocket should also continue to operate it.”

    Just like the motherboard in a computer, the Hamburg Innovation Centre (IZHH) acts as a central hub connecting all the other stakeholders. The entire value chain, from the development to…

  • Jakob Buchheim on our Pilot Line for ion-trap quantum processors

    “We set out to build more than just another cleanroom.” – Jakob Buchheim of DLR QT-IMN about building a user facility for highly specialised deep-tech start-ups at our Innovation Centre…

  • QCI Update 02/2026

    QCI Update 02 / 2026 Our plans with QCI Next · Pilot Line · AFQC 2027 & More Connect Before we all head off for the summer, we have some…

  • Jakob Buchheim: “We set out to build more than just another cleanroom”

    Jakob Buchheim has been fascinated with working in cleanrooms for a decade before he took on his biggest challenge: Building a user facility for highly skilled deep tech start-ups at…

  • Ion traps

    Ion-trap qubits are characterised by particularly long coherence times, high gate quality factors and high entanglement potential.