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Prize

Qilimanjaro wins 4YFN Awards 2024

March 6, 2024

The IFAE spin-off ​​Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, was recognized at the Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024 as the best digital start-up in the world.

Instrumentation

QCT group Milestone: Successful Control of Flux Qubits

October 18, 2023

Researchers at the QCT group have achieved precise control over flux qubits, a crucial component for quantum annealing.

Spin-off

Successful first delivery for the Quantum Spain project to build the first Spanish quantum computer

July 10, 2023

The Qilimanjaro-GMV joint venture has completed the first milestone in the construction of the quantum computer at BSC, which consists of remote access to a 5-qubit quantum chip. This chip is operational at Qilimanjaro’s Quantum Computing Technology laboratory at the Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies (IFAE) and is, in fact, the first quantum computer located in Spanish territory.

Publication

New paper by the QCT group

March 21, 2023

Cosmic muon flux attenuation methods for superconducting qubit experiments ” by members of the QCT group at IFAE has been uploaded to arXiv.

In the Media

The QCT lab featured in the TV program 'El cazador de cerebros'

May 11, 2022

On Monday 3, May 2022 the TV program “El Cazador de cerebros” broadcasted in La2 of the Spanish National Television. The chapter focused on young students and had the title “Los Cerebros del Futuro”.

Milestone

First superconducting flux qubit observed in the QCT lab

January 12, 2022

The QCT group at IFAE has observed the existence of the first superconducting flux qubit. This is a milestone for the group.These are the kind of chips that are of interest for quantum computing with quantum annealing, quantum optics and detection.

Award

Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech wins the Senén Vilaró award

December 9, 2021

Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech receives the Senén Vilaró Prize for the top innovative business.

Group vist

The QCT group visits Can Franc

December 1, 2021

Members of the QCT group at IFAE visited the Canfranc underground laboratory last week to perform the installation of cryogenic cabling in the dilution refrigerator of the CROSS experiment.

Lab

New gas extractor hood installed at IFAE

July 21, 2021

New gas extractor hood installed in the IFAE clean room to be able to carry out part of the in-house manufacturing of chips and thus have better control of the results and production of chips.