Progress beyond state of the art
COPAC provides progress beyond state of the art at several levels. These will enable it to present to European industries an optical-parallel-computing-module that operates under ambient conditions and that is ready for manufacturing and implementation towards massive data handling.
Expected results
The continued advance of the information society requires transformative new ways for the faster processing of the rapidly increasing volumes of information that are being generated by an ever-growing range of applications. COPAC will demonstrate a prototype on which the industrial development of new ultrafast devices and processing systems can be based. COPAC will combine our preliminary multidisciplinary experimental and theoretical breakthroughs advances with the expertise of technology partners to bring our work to the programmable device level. COPAC will build on the new capabilities provided by the hardware that it will develop to initiate new algorithms and new kinds of mathematical and computational approaches that are essential operations in large volume data analysis, data compaction and logic synthesis.
The long term vision of COPAC is the application of atomic and molecular state resolved controlled quantum dynamic processes towards information processing at room temperature. Within this our targeted breakthrough is a novel prototype device for parallel logic engineered to industry standards and with suitable compilers.
Potential impacts
COPAC seeks to achieve a radically new line of technology for implementing massively parallel computing at the hardware level by coherent non-linear optical addressing and reading at room temperarture. COPAC will deliver a proof-of-concept prototype optical device that exploits the quantum features of the hardware and has potentially the same capabilities as quantum computing yet performs classical logic and it performs at ambient conditions. The key advantages of the new technology are that, if successful, the COPAC device will operate at room temperature, using a bottom-up self assembly approach to build the device, process large amounts of information per cycle in parallel at a high speed and enables a macroscopic evaluation and reading in parallel of many (multivalued) observables. The new technology relies on transformational impact and technological breakthroughs in computer architecture, with the developments of compilers and software adapted to processing information by non-linear coherent spectroscopy and exploiting new science that enables parallelism at the hardware level. Developing and mastering new information and communication technologies (ICT) is of strategic importance for the Single Digital Market in Europe. COPAC answers the pressing need of the society for fast and efficient ICT in Europe in the communication, automotive, environmental control, healthcare, security, artificial intelligence and entertainment industries, which call for disruptive and versatile devices that can operate at ambient conditions.
Impact during the first two years
The concept and technology developed by COPAC are expected to have an impact on the community working in the domain of the FET EC Flagship quantum technologies. All COPAC participants are involved in various ways in this community in the field of non conventional quantum computing, quantum simulations and quantum devices.
During the first two years, COPAC made several scientific advances that can have an impact in quantum molecular and nano information processing, non linear spectroscopy of supramolecular complexes and nanotechnologies and devices. The results were disseminated both to the scientific community and to the industry, thanks to the partners strong involvement in dissemination and reach out activities.
