BTQ’s QPerfect and University of Strasbourg Partner on Digital Twin for France’s First Public Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing Platform

Digital Twin Focus: QPerfect is building a hardware-accurate digital twin of the aQCess processor with MIMIQ™ to enable circuit-level testing including native gates, atom transport, and noise models.Platform Scope: aQCess targets more than 400 individually controllable ytterbium qubits with Rydberg interactions and provides open public access under France’s national quantum strategy.Software Integration: Co-location at CESQ places QPerfect’s simulation, compilation, and error-correction stack in direct contact with scaling neutral-atom hardware.On July 22, 2026, BTQ Technologies Corp. announced 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 platform is targeting more than 400 qubits based on ultracold ytterbium atoms with Rydberg-mediated interactions and is designed to give researchers and industry open access to state-of-the-art neutral-atom hardware.Under the partnership, QPerfect is constructing a hardware-accurate digital twin of the aQCess quantum processor using its MIMIQ™ simulation platform. 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, serving as a virtual backend mirroring the real hardware. Built on MIMIQ™ and deployed both on premises at CESQ and as a cloud-accessible service, the twin allows research teams and end users to design, test, and validate quantum workloads against an accurate model of the machine before and alongside running on the physical system.The scientific effort is led by Guido Masella for QPerfect and Stanimir Kondov for CESQ. aQCess (Atomic Quantum Computing as a Service) is a full-stack public quantum computing platform supported by the French National Strategy for Quantum Technologies via the National Research Agency Equipex+ grant ANR-21-ESRE-0032 as part of the PEPR-Quantique programme. It brings together 18 partners, including multidisciplinary research institutes, graduate schools, international partners, and quantum hubs. The platform is powered by ultracold ytterbium atoms with Rydberg-mediated interactions and is intended to make quantum computing more accessible for multidisciplinary research and teaching spanning chemistry, materials science, physics, mathematics, and computer science.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 which can move beyond theory and into real infrastructure. The collaboration also advances development of the Quantum Logic Unit, QLU™, for neutral-atom systems as they scale toward 400 qubits and beyond. QPerfect’s collaboration with the University of Strasbourg reflects exactly why BTQ moved to bring this team and technology into our platform. 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. BTQ Chief Executive Officer Olivier Roussy Newton stated the collaboration “reflects exactly why BTQ moved to bring this team and technology into our platform,” adding MIMIQ™ “sits directly within that deployment layer, helping users run, validate and control quantum systems before and alongside real hardware.” QPerfect Chief Executive Officer Philippe Blot noted, “every major shift in computing is won or lost at the interface between hardware and the software that makes it usable,” and working with the aQCess team provides “a hardware accurate view of a real, scaling neutral atom machine.”QPerfect’s digital twin equips France’s public neutral-atom platform with accurate simulation tools to accelerate software development as hardware scales.Find out more here.—Further articles, reports, and the latest quantum computing news may be found at The Qubit Report.Nasdaq-listed Galaxy Digital has committed up to $5 million to a new Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative. 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