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Pasqal announced a demonstration using a photonic integrated circuit developed with Aeponyx to generate laser-based optical traps that captured individual atoms in a neutral-atom quantum processor.
The demonstration produced four optical traps from a single photonic chip and achieved atom lifetimes comparable to Pasqal’s existing bulk-optics systems.
Pasqal aims to scale the integrated photonics approach toward future fault-tolerant quantum processors with more than 10,000 atoms and 100 logical qubits.
Press release – Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced what it, to its knowledge, believes to be a world-first: the trapping of individual atoms using laser light generated by a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). Achieved with Aeponyx, Pasqal believes this milestone demonstrates a new scalable approach to qubit control supporting future large-scale FTQC quantum processors.
