首席执行官采访：在欧洲建造一名昆腾计算领导者
法国量子计算技术开发人员PASQAL与荷兰的曲阜，量子算法和软件开发人员合并。该举动标志着量子计算中的持续整合，是建设领先的欧洲量子计算公司的关键步骤，首席执行官和联合创始人Georges-Olivier Enymond告诉Eenews Europe。
继续作为PASQAL并总部位于巴黎，两家公司的高管表示，联合公司将在2023年展示1,000 QUBBITUMUM解决方案，与最先进的量子平台的宣布路线相似。该公司计划在那时加入商业500个QUBBit机器，包括曲和助理客户和合作伙伴，其中包括约翰逊和约翰逊，LG，空中客车和宝马集团。
Eymond将仍将留在合并公司的首席执行官，而Qu＆Co的CEO CEO Benno Broer将承担首席商务官的作用。伯勒还担任欧洲量子产业联盟（Quic）的副总裁。合并公司将在七个国家开展业务，Qu＆Co的泛欧活动将继续下面的帕萨尔荷兰，普通话德国，帕萨尔英国和帕萨马斯西班牙。
该交易的关键是用Pasqal的中性原子量子硬件集成曲和CO的量子算法。
“Technically speaking its hardware buying software but its important to present it as a merger to create a European leader,” said Reymond.
在此之前的合并霍尼韦尔的量子computing hardware operation with the algorithm development at Cambridge Quantum Computers to create Quantiniuum.
“他们的交易之间的主要区别和我们的帕萨尔是一个初创公司而不是大型企业，”赛德德说。“从一开始，我们有这种合并硬件和软件的想法，因为第一个应用程序将是硬件特定的，并以有效的方式执行此操作，您需要密切地了解硬件。自从一个强大的软件团队开始以来，我们一直在这样做的是，这项合并是一种加速这一点，以扩大我们的应用范围和我们的团队。我们有60人和硬件公司，我们将有超过25人在软件上工作。“
The technology uses neutral atoms at room temperature manipulated with lasers rather than super-cooled ions or superconducting qubits. This allows the atoms to be moved around and re-configured on a cycle by cycle basis, which is particularly suitable for graph-based machine learning algorithms. The company is working with Muqans, a fellow spinout of Institut d’Optique d’Aquitaine in France, on the laser technology.
“We are leveraging neutral atom technology with single atoms as qubits and we do not need to manufacture them. They are operating at room temperature without complex cryogenic equipment and we have full control over the geometry to create quantum registers by positioning qbits in space,” said Reymond.
“因此，您可以使用原子来制作图形，例如，图形的形状从一个应用程序变为另一个应用程序。这样做，我们已经能够构建一个可以处理完整图形的设备是五个量子操作而不是数以万计的操作。“
“We are using light to control the qubit and by scaling the devices with holographic techniques it is very flexible. Our roadmap is to reach 1000 qubits by 2023 and we currently have a set up with 500 atoms in the lab but we do not yet have the quantum control which will be ready by the summer,” he said.
“For a quantum machine learning algorithm we only need global addressing for the qubits as we address all of them in a single shot, that’s why its so efficient and that is very hardware specific. We prepare the quantum register, implement it and readout, then start again. It’s operating at a couple of hertz but we do more processing so its faster overall.”
“For gates between the quits you need individual addressing and we are using light and its definitely scalable and it has been demonstrated in the lab and the nice thing is the physics is easy to understand how it works. All the know how is how to put it together for the hologram and controlling the atoms and being able to move them and rearrange – we use off the shelf components.”
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但是，这需要专业算法专业知识。“所以合并硬件和软件是一种加快量子优势的方式，”他说。“首先，我们正在开发有用的工具。“我们有API与CIRQ Google平台兼容，但我们也有自己的低级开源工具，称为脉冲器，这是一种汇编语言，”他说。“
“On top of Pulser you can build libraries to solve mathematical problems such as finding properties on graphics and solutions to partial equations, then the next layer is the applications for automotive etc and then there are the end users, who can have access to the application layer, or to the controller at the Pulser layer,” he said.
最初的目的是拥有云的量子计算系统，但大型企业客户也在寻找自己的内部部署系统，所以帽子他们不必将敏感数据发送到云端。
“In the short term we are scaling to the cloud for the end users to test the systems and evaluate the investment required and as we scale the technology and the business the first users will be ready to buy the hardware for their own use as they will not want to send their data to the cloud,” he said.
“We are already ready to sell devices, the first customers are the High Performance Computing (HPC) centres and they need to start exploring these new tools – we will deliver the first systems by 2023 with 100 to 200 qubits, the 1000 qubit will still be a prototype.”
Building a major European quantum computing company also takes cash. The company has raised over E25m ($30m) is backed by Quantonation with Runa Capital, Daphni and Eni Next, as well as the European Commission’s EIC investment fund, which includes an equity stake.
“我们需要战略投资者来验证该技术，以及VCS推动这笔钱。我们需要欧洲投资者，因为它是一个战略行业，但大笔资金在美国，我们已经有了两个人。“
他是警惕的投资者要求销售公司获得投资回报。“这种战略举措阻止了欧洲领导人的崛起，一旦技术准备就绪，他们就可以销售，我想成为一个能够与谷歌脸书法竞争的欧洲巨人，亚马逊和公共投资是一种实现这一目标的方法，“ 他说。
但是有很长的路要赴在行业中创造欧洲领导者，并有一个全球资金种族。Psiquantum在Ordwer中向美国筹集了6.5亿美元，以将其最初在欧洲开发的光子量子计算技术商业化。
“Leveraging the synergies of the two companies will further strengthen our full-stack, neutral-atom solution in achieving near-term commercial benefit,” he said “Qu&Co’s technology and exceptional talent base has proven itself across several industries and will allow us to compete with any quantum computing company in the world. The technology is moving fast, the business is moving fast and the investors are moving fast,” said Reymond. “I think it is doable in Europe but you have to be careful. We have strong European investors and after the next round [of funding] we will still be a European company.”
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