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Instrumentation

Brussels Approves the Installation of the Quantum Computer MareNostrum-Ona in Barcelona

January 30, 2025

Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech will develop the MareNostrum-Ona quantum computer, which will be installed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

Publication

New QCT group publication

January 15, 2025

Direct Detection of Down-Converted Photons Spontaneously Produced at a Single Josephson Junction by Alba Torras and collaborators has been published in Physical Review Letters.

New Member

New member in the Quantum Computing group

November 21, 2024

Guillermo Del Riego has joined the QCT group as a PhD student

New Member

New member in the Quantum Computing group

November 21, 2024

Ariadna Gómez has joined the QCT group as a PhD student

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”.