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IFAE joins EU‑selected SUPREME consortium to scale industrial production of superconducting quantum chips
July 11, 2025
Quantum Computing Technologies GroupThe Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) is one of the 23 partners from eight EU member states in SUPREME, a new European project selected under the Chips Joint Undertaking to establish pilot lines for the industrial production of superconducting quantum chips.
Coordinated by VTT (Finland), SUPREME brings together research institutions, companies, and SMEs to develop scalable, open-access infrastructure for superconducting quantum technologies. The project will focus on key components such as Josephson junctions, travelling-wave parametric amplifiers, and single-photon detectors. Pilot-line operations are expected to begin in early 2026, with access to external users starting in 2027.
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, a spin-off of IFAE, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), and the University of Barcelona (UB), also participates in the consortium as an industrial partner, contributing to the development and commercialization of superconducting quantum computing systems.
SUPREME will run for four years and aims to strengthen Europe’s position in the quantum hardware landscape by building robust and standardized fabrication capabilities.
New device
New Dilution Refrigerator Installed at the QCT Lab
September 26, 2025
The Quantum Computing Technologies Lab at IFAE has just received its new dilution refrigerator from Leiden Cryogenics. The unit, customized with IFAE’s colors, is currently cooling down and is expected to reach 10 mK (0.01 K above absolute zero) tomorrow.
Publication
New QCT Group Paper on Superinductors and Ultrastrong Coupling
July 17, 2025
“A new preprint by IFAE’s Quantum Computing and Technologies (QCT) group, titled “Superinductor-based ultrastrong coupling in a superconducting circuit” , has been uploaded to arXiv.