Equal1, the desktop quantum computing company, today announced that the "QUADRATURE" consortium, of which it is a core member, has been awarded the prestigious, highly competitive Horizon Europe European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder Open funding grant to advance research into massively scalable quantum computers through coherent quantum links connecting quantum processors.

Equal1 is joined in the consortium by leading European research centers Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Delft University of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Technical University of Catalunya, Technical University of Valencia (project coordinator), University College Dublin, University of Catania, and University of Siegen. The total grant to the consortium from the European Union is €4 million.

The vision of QUADRATURE is a step towards million-qubit quantum computing architectures able to address real-world problems otherwise intractable with classical computers.

Jason Lynch, CEO of Equal1: "We are delighted to join such a world-leading group of research partners in the Pathfinder award, which will explore novel ways to scale quantum computers. In short, instead of interconnecting millions of individual qubits, interconnecting a few quantum cores."