Project description
Building advanced platforms for quantum simulations
Quantum simulations help address questions in fundamental science, materials development and quantum chemistry, as well as real-world problems in industry. Neutral-atom simulators can already handle more than 50 cold atoms in optical lattices or arrays of optical tweezers, interacting via either collisional or Rydberg state mediated interactions. The ion-trap platform reaches unsurpassed control with up to 20 ions. The EU-funded PASQuanS project aims to further advance quantum simulation platforms based on ultracold atoms and ions. To that end, it will scale up well-advanced platforms to make them capable of handling more than 1 000 atoms or ions, improve the control methods and make quantum simulators fully programmable.
Objective
PASQuanS will perform a decisive transformative step for quantum simulation towards programmable analogue simulators addressing questions in fundamental science, materials development, quantum chemistry and real-world problems of high importance in industry. PASQuanS builds on the impressive achievements of the most advanced quantum simulation platforms, based on atoms and ions. The neutral-atom simulators handle more than 50 cold atoms in optical lattices or arrays of optical tweezers, interacting via either collisional or Rydberg-state-mediated interactions. The ion-trap platform reaches unsurpassed control with up to 20 ions. By scaling up these platforms towards >1000 atoms/ions, by improving control methods and making these simulators fully programmable, PASQuanS will push these already well-advanced platforms far beyond both the state-of-the-art and the reach of classical computation. Full programmability will make it possible to address quantum annealing or optimization problems much sooner than digital quantum computation. PASQuanS will demonstrate a quantum advantage for non-trivial problems, paving the way towards practical and industrial applications. PASQuanS tightly unites five experimental groups with complementary methods to achieve the technological goals, connected with six theoretical teams focusing on certification, control techniques and applications of the programmable platforms, and five industrial partners in charge of the key developments of enabling technologies and possible commercial spin-offs of the project. PASQuanS will result in modular building blocks for a future generation of quantum simulators. Possible end-users of these simulators, major industrial actors, are tightly associated with the consortium. In a cross-fertilization process, they will be engaged in a dialogue on quantum simulation, and help to identify and implement key applications where quantum simulation provides a competitive advantage.
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80539 Munchen
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91120 Palaiseau
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69117 Heidelberg
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75794 Paris
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75005 Paris
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75006 Paris
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1010 Wien
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35122 Padova
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G1 1XQ Glasgow
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14195 Berlin
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8092 Zuerich
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94120 Fontenay-sous-Bois
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78340 Les Clayes Sous Bois
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78100 Saint Germain En Laye
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33600 Pessac
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82166 GRAEFELFING
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52428 Julich
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91300 Massy
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6020 Innsbruck
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