QPerfect Partners with University of Strasbourg on Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing Platform

Insider Brief

• BTQ Technologies’ QPerfect subsidiary has partnered with the University of Strasbourg to develop a digital twin of France’s aQCess neutral-atom quantum computing platform.
• The collaboration will use QPerfect’s MIMIQ™ simulation platform to create a hardware-accurate model of the aQCess processor for testing and validating quantum workloads.
• The project aims to support open access to neutral-atom quantum computing resources and improve software development for scaling quantum systems.
• Photo credit: Atom Computing.

Press release – BTQ Technologies Corp. (“BTQ“ or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: BTQ) (CBOE CA: BTQ), a global quantum technology company focused on securing mission-critical networks, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, QPerfect, has entered into a research collaboration with the University of Strasbourg in support of aQCess, France’s first publicly accessible neutral atom quantum computing platform.

Led by co-coordinators Shannon Whitlock and Guido Pupillo at the Centre Européen de Sciences Quantiques (“CESQ“), part of the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (“ISIS“), a joint laboratory of the University of Strasbourg and the CNRS, the aQCess platform is targeting more than 400 qubits and is designed to give researchers and industry open access to state-of-the-art neutral atom hardware.

Under the partnership, QPerfect is building a hardware-accurate digital twin of the aQCess quantum processor using its MIMIQ™ simulation platform. The collaboration brings QPerfect’s software stack into direct contact with a sovereign European quantum computing initiative supported by the French National Strategy for Quantum Technologies, reinforcing BTQ‘s broader strategy of developing technologies across quantum software, hardware and secure network infrastructure.

The first joint project delivers a cloud-based, hardware-accurate quantum digital twin of the aQCess processor. The digital twin replicates the machine at the circuit level, including its native gate set, instruction set architecture, atom transport operations and experimentally characterized noise, acting as a virtual backend that mirrors the real hardware. Built on MIMIQ™ and deployed both on premises at CESQ and as a cloud accessible service, it lets research teams and end users design, test and validate quantum workloads against an accurate model of the machine before and alongside running on the physical system.

Co-located in the same building and sharing a scientific heritage and research agenda, QPerfect and the aQCess team bring the simulation, compilation and error correction software stack into direct contact with neutral atom hardware as it comes online. This proximity gives QPerfect a hardware-accurate view of a real, scaling quantum system and supports BTQ‘s objective of building trusted quantum technologies that can move beyond theory and into real infrastructure. The scientific effort is led by Guido Masella for QPerfect and Stanimir Kondov for CESQ.

“QPerfect‘s collaboration with the University of Strasbourg reflects exactly why BTQ moved to bring this team and technology into our platform,” said Olivier Roussy Newton, Chief Executive Officer of BTQ Technologies. “BTQ builds trusted quantum technologies across silicon, blockchain and quantum networks. MIMIQ™ sits directly within that deployment layer, helping users run, validate and control quantum systems before and alongside real hardware. By placing QPerfect’s software stack alongside one of Europe’s leading neutral atom quantum computing initiatives, we are strengthening the tools needed to make quantum systems more usable, more reliable and more accessible as they scale.”

“Every major shift in computing is won or lost at the interface between hardware and the software that makes it usable. I lived that with the transition to public key cryptography, and we are at exactly that point in quantum computing today,” said Philippe Blot, Chief Executive Officer of QPerfect. “Working shoulder to shoulder with the aQCess team gives us something rare: a hardware accurate view of a real, scaling neutral atom machine. That is how we make MIMIQ™ a faithful digital twin, and how we sharpen the compilation and error correction software, including our Quantum Logic Unit, QLU™, that we are building for neutral atom systems as they scale toward 400 qubits and beyond.”

“aQCess is built to give France and Europe open access to leading neutral atom quantum hardware. A trustworthy digital twin is essential to that mission. It lets users get productive on day one and lets us validate the machine as it scales,” said Guido Pupillo, Co-Coordinator of aQCess. “QPerfect‘s simulation and compilation expertise, right here on campus, is a natural fit for this work.”