About
The Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT) is Sweden's national quantum initiative, a 12-year, 1 billion SEK programme coordinated from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. Launched in 2018 and funded mainly by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation with co-funding from industry and government, WACQT is one of Europe's largest single-institution quantum computing investments. WACQT's primary goal is building a world-class superconducting quantum computer capable of solving problems beyond classical supercomputers. Its research spans quantum computing and simulation, quantum communication, and quantum sensing across Chalmers, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University, and the University of Gothenburg. By its mid-term report in 2023, WACQT had built a research community of 200 members from 48 countries, trained 81 PhD students, and published over 150 peer-reviewed papers. The centre gained international recognition when WACQT-affiliated researcher Anne L'Huillier received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on attosecond pulses. Chalmers hosts the primary quantum computer hardware development, led by Professor Goran Johansson, with the superconducting qubit programme targeting fault-tolerant quantum computing on a 10-year horizon. WACQT has industrial partnerships with Ericsson, ABB, Saab, and Volvo, focusing on quantum advantage in communications, optimisation, and materials simulation.
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