Pasqal, the Paris-based neutral-atom quantum computing company, trapped more than 1,110 individual atoms within roughly 2,000 optical-tweezer sites in a single experimental run. Neutral-atom systems hold individual atoms in place with tightly focused laser beams called optical tweezers, using each atom as a qubit, the basic unit of quantum information. In the same set of experiments, Pasqal rearranged an 828-atom array one atom at a time using FPGA-controlled tweezers, a technique needed to keep large qubit grids stable enough to compute with. Pasqal presented the results as evidence for its roadmap toward processors of more than 1,000 qubits, with a goal of 10,000 qubits by 2026 or 2027. Pasqal is a Parkway Venture Capital portfolio company.
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