Because quantum computing has a huge amount of information carrying and super parallel computing processing power that cannot be matched by classical computing technology, the field of quantum computing has become a battlefield for countries to compete.
According to the classification of the "Quantum Technology Readiness Levels" (QTRL) in the White Paper "European Quantum Computing and Quantum Simulation Infrastructure", China and the United States have reached the QTRL level 9 level (achieving "quantum advantage"), temporarily leading. In addition, Russia, India, Australia, Japan, and European countries have also begun to accelerate the development of the quantum industry.
Quantum Home
In early 2022, the Dutch National Quantum Initiative Quantum Delta NL announced a partnership with the ASR Dutch Science Park Fund to build a 12,000-square-meter House of Quantum on the delft Polytechnic University campus. Quantum House will serve as the national headquarters for the development of quantum technologies in the Netherlands, becoming an ecosystem of students, companies, investors and researchers to create the quantum technologies and enterprises of the future, and the project is scheduled to be completed in 2024.
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On April 9, 2021, the National Growth Fund provided Quantum Delta NL with an investment of €615 million to further develop quantum technology.
In April 2022, the National Growth Fund Commission approved the second phase of QDNL's 7-year plan, with €228 million to be used to further develop campuses throughout the Netherlands, while launching a €15 million seed fund.
QuTech
QuTech is an advanced quantum computing research center organized by Tu Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Science Research (TNO) in the Netherlands, and its main members are from the School of Applied Sciences of Delft University of Technology and the Schools of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.
Tu Delft is the oldest and largest polytechnic university in the Netherlands, with 8 faculties. There is no doubt about their strength in the field of quantum information science, and the quantum hardware research teams of Microsoft and Intel are from this university.
QuTech has three research directions of quantum Internet, qubits, and quantum computing, of which the study of quantum computing includes two methods: electron spin in quantum dots and superconducting quantum circuits.
In March 2022, Intel and QuTech manufactured the first silicon qubits on a mass-produced process line for the first time. The results were published in Nature Electronics.
Spin qubit chip (Image source: Intel)
Lieven Vandersypen, chief scientist at QuTech, said that the Intel team achieved a yield rate of 98% this time, compared with only 50% in ordinary university laboratories.
Dutch Quantum Computing Alliance
In July 2021, the Dutch Quantum Computing Alliance ImpaQT announced a €600,000 grant from MRDH (Metropoolregio Rotterdam Den Haag) and the Dutch National Quantum Strategy Quantum Delta NL. Current alliance members include QuantWare, Demcon, Qu& Co, OrangeQS, Qblox and Delft Circuits.
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These companies are each responsible for making different components of a quantum computer and then forming a single quantum computer. Other external companies can buy components from members of the consortium and build their own quantum computers without requiring large-scale in-house engineering investments by quantum hardware companies.
QuantWare
Among them, the Dutch quantum computing startup QuantWare was founded in July 21 to become a chip manufacturer in the quantum computing ecosystem. It has launched two customizable chips: Soprano, a 5-qubit superconducting processor released in March 22, and Contralto, a 25-qubit quantum processing unit (QPU).
25 qubit quantum processing unit Contralto (Image: QuantWare)
Origin quantum
Since its establishment in 2017, quantum computing has been developed in the full stack around quantum chips, quantum computing measurement and control machines, quantum operating systems, quantum software, quantum computing cloud platforms and core businesses of quantum computing science education, and has a large number of core patents for quantum computing.
The "Wuyuan" series of superconducting quantum computers OriginQ-SC24A has been commercially produced. This series of superconducting quantum computers is composed of superconducting quantum chip system, quantum computing measurement and control system, quantum computer operating system (Origin Sinan) and quantum computing environment support system.
The 24-qubit superconducting quantum processor "Kwafu" KF C24-100 is built on the circuit quantum electrodynamic system, and the precision-designed pulse train can realize high-fidelity quantum logic gate operation. And the coherence time is long, the operation speed is fast, and the overall operation can be achieved thousands of times.
At present, Origin Quantum has launched a commercial customization service for superconducting quantum chips below 64 bits.