Powering the Quantum Information Age

The Future is Quantum

Quantum atomics will change the way we compute and communicate. It will change how we sense and interact with our environment. It will be the basis of quantum systems that will provide an unprecedented level of performance, security, privacy, and computational speed to address the world’s most challenging technological problems.

ColdQuanta’s Quantum Core™ technology uses the power of quantum atomics, and the pioneering work of Nobel Prize-winning scientists, as the foundation of our quantum products, both today and in the future.

How Quantum Core technology works

One Quantum Core,
Many Quantum Applications

At the heart of our products is Quantum Core technology. Quantum Core captures, cools, and controls cold and ultracold atoms. Its lasers can cool atoms to temperatures less than a billionth of a degree of absolute zero. Quantum Core can control billions of atoms at once, or one atom at a time, enabling everything from atomic timekeeping to quantum logic. Our algorithms, electronics, and lasers combine with compact optics, vacuum systems, and rugged packaging, to create quantum systems that are deployable on Earth and in orbit.

Quantum Core™

Application Systems

Quantum sensors, quantum clocks, quantum positioning systems

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Quantum Core™

Computing

Solving classically intractable problems

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ColdQuanta Awarded Contract of up to $7.4M from DARPA to Accelerate Development of Scalable Cold Atom Quantum Computers

Products

From ultra-cold to ion trap systems to custom products, ColdQuanta is the world leader in commercial cold and ultracold atom technology.

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Services

Talk to us about your UHV-compatible optically bonded assemblies and precision machined specialty materials needs.

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The Birth of Quantum

The discovery that nature is fundamentally governed by quantum mechanical rules may be the most important scientific achievement of the 20th century. Unexplained experimental observations led to the creation of a new quantum theory of atoms. This led Albert Einstein and Satyendra Bose to theorize an entirely new form of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate.

An Electronic Revolution

In the 1940s, William Shockley, Walter Houser Brattain, and John Bardeen create the transistor, and this leads to the invention of integrated circuits in the late 1950s. These inventions give mankind precise control over the electron, leading to computers, calculators, radar, and even video games. Shockley, Brattain, and Bardeen are subsequently honored with the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. The age of electronics begins.

Building on Communications

Theodore H. Maiman builds the world's first laser, known as the "ruby laser", taking theory to reality, and changing the future of science. The discovery of how to control photons with unheard-of accuracy leads to laser printers, CDs and DVDs, medical instruments, advanced materials processing, and fiber-optic communications.

The Birth of Cool

Pioneering research in cooling and trapping atoms using laser light by Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, and William D. Phillips transforms atomic physics. The three scientists are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. Techniques derived from their work lead to the development of astonishingly precise clocks, and applications in quantum information technology. In 1995, Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman synthesized the first Bose–Einstein condensate.

The Quantum Wave

In recognition of their work, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. In the 2000s, quantum physics and high technology come together to lead to the development of early quantum systems for computing, communications, sensing, simulation, metrology, and imaging. Research and development is fueled by massive investments from governments and industry. The quantum race is on.

ColdQuanta and Quantum Atomics

ColdQuanta is spun out of the University of Colorado, based on Nobel Prize-winning work in quantum matter. Over the next decade, ColdQuanta develops and advances its Quantum Core technology, which utilizes ultra-cold atoms cooled to a temperature of nearly absolute zero using lasers to manipulate and control the atoms with extreme precision.

The Quantum Core is Launched into Space

Working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), ColdQuanta’s Quantum Core is launched on an Antares rocket to the International Space Station. In December, a major milestone is achieved when a Bose-Einstein condensate was produced in orbit for the first time. JPL calls it “the coolest experiment in the universe”.

ColdQuanta Now

Just as the transistor and the laser led to technology revolutions, quantum atomics will be the foundation of the next revolution, from computing to real-time navigation systems, communications, and signal processing. Our Quantum Core technology is at the heart of our quantum atomics innovation. It will provide an unprecedented level of performance, security, privacy, and computational speed to address the world’s most challenging technological problems.

Powering the Quantum Information Age

The Future is Quantum

How Quantum Core technology works

One Quantum Core,
Many Quantum Applications

Quantum Core™

Application Systems

Quantum Core™

Computing

ColdQuanta Awarded Contract of up to $7.4M from DARPA to Accelerate Development of Scalable Cold Atom Quantum Computers

Products

Services

MIT Tech Review: Scientists have made Bose-Einstein condensates in space for the first time

HPCWire: ColdQuanta – Life in Quantum’s Slow (and Cold) Lane Heats Up

Webinar: An Introduction to Quantum Signal Processing