AQT (Alpine Quantum Technologies)

AQT (Alpine Quantum Technologies) is an Innsbruck-based company founded in 2018 as a spin-off from the University of Innsbruck and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, and it builds trapped-ion quantum computers. Its systems trap calcium-40 ions in segmented Paul traps and use a quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) architecture that shuttles ions between trap zones to entangle qubits and scale beyond what a single trap region allows. The company both sells rack-mounted systems and provides cloud access to its hardware, making it one of the few European firms building its own ion-trap processors and control electronics.

AI-written profile · not yet reviewed · 30 September 2026

Headquarters: Innsbruck, Austria
Founded: 2018
Status: Private

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Coverage

Quantum Zeitgeist29 September 2026

AQT Joins €122 Million Project to Build German Quantum Computer

AQT has been selected as one of seven partners in a German federal project to build a high-performance quantum computer. The consortium will receive approximately €122 million from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space over up to five years.

OutlookPlausible

AQT’s trapped-ion architecture could become the basis for a German national quantum computing testbed accessible to industry and academia within two years.

trapped ionAQT (Alpine Quantum Technologies)