Portugal News - The European Commission is investing 10 million euros to fund a consortium to develop a quantum computer that will be able to run at room temperature.
The groundbreaking quantum computer, that is being developed under the European Commission Quantum Flagship initiative, is using diamonds and silicon carbide to build quantum computers and simulators that can run at room temperature.
European scientists are using diamonds to build a new quantum computer that works without needing to be cooled to ultra-low temperatures. Under the name SPINUS project for “Spin based quantum computer and simulator”, Quantum Flagship is developing experimental platforms for quantum simulation (>50 quantum units) and quantum computation (>10 qubits) that are set to be completed by 2027.
With this new technological approach, future quantum computers will become practical and scalable, thus leading to the faster development of groundbreaking technologies in a number of sectors, such as using powerful algorithms for the financial sector, or even tackling incredibly complex problems such as understanding how materials behave at the atomic level.
The consortium that is developing the quantum computer under the SPINUS project include the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF, with the University of Ulm, the University of Stuttgart, the Forschungszentrum Jülich, and Quantum Brilliance from Germany, the Hasselt University from Belgium, Linköping University from Sweden, the Technical University of Denmark, the Wigner Research Center for Physics from Hungary, the Bruno Kessler Foundation from Italy, the Delft University of Technology from the Netherlands, and AMIRES from the Czech Republic.
While current quantum computers require ultra-cold temperatures near absolute zero, or -273°C (-460°F), making them huge, cumbersome, and energy-intensive, the future quantum computers being developed under the EU Quantum Flagship initiative are set to revolutionization the tech industry in the near future with a quantum leap towards solid state quantum computing and simulation.