BTQ Technologies announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, QPerfect, has entered into a research collaboration with the University of Strasbourg in support of aQCess, France’s first publicly accessible neutral atom quantum computing platform. The aQCess platform, led by co-coordinators Shannon Whitlock and Guido Pupillo at the Centre Européen de Sciences Quantiques, is targeting more than 400 qubits and is supported by the French National Strategy for Quantum Technologies.
Under the partnership, QPerfect is building a hardware-accurate digital twin of the aQCess quantum processor using its MIMIQ simulation platform. The first joint project delivers a cloud-based digital twin that replicates the machine at the circuit level, including its native gate set, instruction set architecture, atom transport operations, and experimentally characterized noise, functioning as a virtual backend that mirrors the real hardware. Deployed both on-premises at the Centre Européen de Sciences Quantiques and as a cloud-accessible service, the digital twin allows research teams to design, test, and validate quantum workloads against an accurate model of the machine before and alongside running on the physical system. The scientific effort is led by Guido Masella for QPerfect and Stanimir Kondov for the research center.
QPerfect, founded in 2023 and based in Strasbourg, is a wholly owned subsidiary of BTQ focused on quantum computing and quantum design automation, with its flagship MIMIQ platform forming the first layer of its Quantum Logic Unit framework. The aQCess platform brings together 18 partners, including seven multidisciplinary research institutes, three graduate schools, four international partners, and two quantum hubs, and is based on a digital quantum processor using ultracold ytterbium atoms with Rydberg-mediated interactions.
KEY QUOTES:
“QPerfect’s collaboration with the University of Strasbourg reflects exactly why BTQ moved to bring this team and technology into our platform. By placing QPerfect’s software stack alongside one of Europe’s leading neutral atom quantum computing initiatives, we are strengthening the tools needed to make quantum systems more usable, more reliable and more accessible as they scale.”
Olivier Roussy Newton, Chief Executive Officer, BTQ Technologies
“Working shoulder to shoulder with the aQCess team gives us something rare: a hardware accurate view of a real, scaling neutral atom machine. That is how we make MIMIQ a faithful digital twin, and how we sharpen the compilation and error correction software, including our Quantum Logic Unit, that we are building for neutral atom systems as they scale toward 400 qubits and beyond.”
Philippe Blot, Chief Executive Officer, QPerfect
