QPerfect Builds Digital Twin for 400+ Qubit French Platform

BTQ Technologies‘ QPerfect subsidiary is collaborating with the University of Strasbourg to build a hardware-accurate digital twin of France’s first publicly accessible neutral atom quantum computing platform, aQCess. Targeting a scale of more than 400 qubits, the aQCess platform led by co-coordinators Shannon Whitlock and Guido Pupillo at the Centre Européen de Sciences Quantiques (” CESQ “) aims to provide open access to advanced quantum hardware for researchers and industry. QPerfect will utilize its MIMIQ simulation platform to create this digital twin, replicating the processor at the circuit level and mirroring its experimentally characterized noise. “MIMIQ sits directly within that deployment layer, helping users run, validate and control quantum systems before and alongside real hardware,” said Olivier Roussy Newton, Chief Executive Officer of BTQ Technologies, emphasizing the partnership’s goal of increasing the usability and reliability of scaling quantum systems.

QPerfect-University of Strasbourg Partnership Supports aQCess Neutral-Atom Platform

The collaboration centers around aQCess, the nation’s first publicly accessible neutral-atom quantum computing platform, which aims to scale to over 400 qubits and provide open access to researchers and industry. This initiative underscores a growing trend toward democratizing access to quantum hardware, moving beyond isolated laboratory experiments toward broader utilization. QPerfect’s contribution focuses on creating a hardware-accurate digital twin of the aQCess processor using its MIMIQ simulation platform. This virtual replica will meticulously mirror the physical machine at the circuit level, encompassing the native gate set, instruction set architecture, and even experimentally characterized noise. The digital twin will be deployed both on-premises at the Centre Européen de Sciences Quantiques (” CESQ “) and as a cloud-accessible service, enabling users to design, test, and validate quantum workloads before deploying them on the actual hardware.

The aQCess platform is co-coordinated by Shannon Whitlock and Guido Pupillo, who lead the effort at CESQ, a joint laboratory of the University of Strasbourg and the CNRS. This close proximity between QPerfect’s software development team and the physical quantum hardware is intentional, allowing for a hardware-accurate view of a scaling quantum system crucial for refining simulation and compilation software.

Guido Masella of QPerfect and Stanimir Kondov of CESQ are leading the scientific effort, aiming to build trusted quantum technologies capable of transitioning from theoretical concepts to practical infrastructure. Philippe Blot, Chief Executive Officer of QPerfect, explained that “Every major shift in computing is won or lost at the interface between hardware and the software that makes it usable.” He added that “Working closely with the aQCess team gives us something rare: a hardware accurate view of a real, scaling neutral atom machine.” Guido Pupillo noted that “aQCess is built to give France and Europe open access to leading neutral atom quantum hardware, and a trustworthy digital twin is essential to that mission.”