ele­Qtron devel­ops and oper­ates quan­tum com­put­ers. Our next-gen­er­a­tion com­put­ing machines will be able to solve prob­lems in chem­istry, life sci­ences, logis­tics and finance that even the best con­ven­tion­al super­com­put­ers can­not handle

To do this, we com­pute with the quan­tum states of atoms (qubits), shield­ed from inter­fer­ence. The ground­break­ing con­cept we have devel­oped, called MAGIC, allows these qubits to be con­trolled reli­ably and pre­cise­ly using estab­lished, inex­pen­sive and minia­tur­iz­able high-fre­quen­cy technology.

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Why Quan­tum Computing:

Quantum Computers can perform calculations in parallel:

One ion or qubit can per­form 21=2 par­al­lel operations
Two ions or qubits can per­form 22=4 par­al­lel operations
Three ions or qubits can per­form 23=8 par­al­lel operations
Four ions or qubits can per­form 24=16 par­al­lel operations
Five ions or qubits can per­form 25=32 par­al­lel operations
Six ions or qubits can per­form 26=64 par­al­lel operations
Sev­en ions or qubits can per­form 27=128 par­al­lel operations
Eight ions or qubits can per­form 28=256 par­al­lel operations
Nine ions or qubits can per­form 29=256 par­al­lel operations
10 ions can per­form 210=1024 par­al­lel operations
11 ions can per­form around 2000 par­al­lel operations
12 ions can per­form around 4000 par­al­lel operations
13 ions can per­form around 8000 par­al­lel operations
14 ions can per­form around 16000 par­al­lel operations
15 ions can per­form around 30000 par­al­lel operations
16 ions can per­form around 60000 par­al­lel operations
17 ions can per­form around 125000 par­al­lel operations
18 ions can per­form around 250000 par­al­lel operations
19 ions can per­form around 500000 par­al­lel operations
20 ions can per­form around one mil­lion par­al­lel operations
And with 100 ions, you can per­form one thou­sand bil­lion bil­lion bil­lion oper­a­tions in par­al­lel. The com­pu­ta­tion­al pow­er dou­bles with every qubit. For cal­cu­la­tions which are espe­cial­ly suit­ed to exploit this par­al­lelism, even mod­er­ate qubit num­bers can lead to quan­tum suprema­cy — when a quan­tum com­put­er is faster than a clas­si­cal computer.

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‘The Amer­i­cans have need of the tele­phone, but we do not. We have plen­ty of mes­sen­ger boys.’ (1876)
William Preece, Chief Engi­neer, British Gen­er­al Post Office
What does this mean for eleQtron?
New tech­nolo­gies cre­ate new mar­kets. And end old ones. We can get by with­out mes­sen­ger boys today. For ele­Qtron, the fact that there is already a solu­tion to a prob­lem does not mean that we should stop search­ing for a bet­ter one. Accord­ing­ly, we are not intim­i­dat­ed by the cur­rent supe­ri­or­i­ty of clas­si­cal com­put­ers: Quan­tum com­put­ers will be able to do more — and how much more we can­not even guess. 
‘When the Paris Exhi­bi­tion clos­es, elec­tric light will close with it and no more be heard of.’ (1878)
Eras­mus Wil­son, Pro­fes­sor at Oxford
What does this mean for eleQtron?
Great new inven­tions are often dis­missed as fads or gim­micks. The quan­tum com­put­er is already beyond this stage: Despite its still lim­it­ed suc­cess in imple­men­ta­tion, hard­ly any­one doubts that it could turn our lives upside down. We believe that it will.
‘Fool­ing around with alter­nat­ing current’s just a waste of time. Nobody’ll ever use it.’ (1889)
Thomas Edi­son
What does this mean for eleQtron?
The first solu­tion is not always the best. That’s why the use of alter­nat­ing cur­rent pre­vailed after a cer­tain lead time, part­ly because of its eas­i­er scal­a­bil­i­ty — just as eleQtron’s ion tech­nol­o­gy will scale faster and with less effort than oth­er approaches.
‘Heav­ier-than-air fly­ing machines are impos­si­ble.’ (1895)
Lord Kelvin, British Physi­cist, Pres­i­dent of the Roy­al Society
What does this mean for eleQtron?
Only a few years lat­er, advances in engine tech­nol­o­gy and aero­dy­nam­ics made fly­ing pos­si­ble. It helps to think out­side the box: Tech­ni­cal­ly dif­fi­cult prob­lems can often be solved by advances in super­fi­cial­ly unre­lat­ed fields. Just as the suc­cess­es of high-fre­quen­cy tech­nol­o­gy form the basis for our con­cept of a func­tion­ing quan­tum computer.
‘It is very pos­si­ble that … one machine would suf­fice to solve all the prob­lems that are demand­ed of it from the whole coun­try’ (1946)
Sir Charles Dar­win, Leit­er des britis­chen Nation­al Phys­i­cal Laboratory
What does this mean for eleQtron?
Intial­ly, the appli­ca­tions for com­put­ers were lim­it­ed. But soon, prob­lems that no one had even dared to dream of solv­ing in the begin­ning were being tack­led with com­put­ers. We also expect that the avail­abil­i­ty of com­put­ing pow­er from quan­tum com­put­ers will indi­rect­ly lead to greater demand for it. The future impor­tance of quan­tum tech­nol­o­gy can­not be overstated.
‘God does not roll the dice.’ (1952)
Albert Ein­stein
What does this mean for eleQtron?
What­ev­er Ein­stein may have intend­ed to say — it is cer­tain that an ele­ment of chance is a dom­i­nat­ing aspect of quan­tum mechan­ics. And one that helps us to solve huge com­pu­ta­tion­al prob­lems that can­not be solved deterministically.
‘We nev­er exper­i­ment with just one elec­tron or atom or (small) mol­e­cule. In thought-exper­i­ments we some­times assume that we do; this invari­ably entails ridicu­lous con­se­quences… we are not exper­i­ment­ing with sin­gle par­ti­cles, any more than we can raise Ichthyosauria in the zoo.’ (1952)
Erwin Schrödinger
What does this mean for eleQtron?
What even the founders of quan­tum mechan­ics like Heisen­berg and Schrödinger could not imag­ine, is now every­day rou­tine. At ele­Qtron we exper­i­ment with indi­vid­ual ions, con­trol their states and inter­ac­tions and inter­ac­tions, and even take pic­tures of them. Fan­tas­tic? Yes. Nor­mal? Of course.
‘I think I can safe­ly say that nobody under­stands quan­tum mechan­ics.’ (1964)
Richard Feyn­man
What does this mean for eleQtron?
Who would dare con­tra­dict Feyn­man? Even Ein­stein had his dif­fi­cul­ties with quan­tum mechan­ics. It deliv­ers aston­ish­ing and coun­ter­in­tu­itive insights until today. And results that no oth­er tech­nol­o­gy can deliv­er — quan­tum computers.
‘Remote shop­ping, although fea­si­ble, will flop.’ (1969)
Time Mag­a­zine
What does this mean for eleQtron?
When look­ing into the future, it is dif­fi­cult to detach one­self from one’s own point of view. New ques­tions are posed, and the demand on tech­nol­o­gy changes. ele­Qtron is poised to be among the first to react.
‘I Pre­dict the Inter­net Will Soon Go Spec­tac­u­lar­ly Super­no­va and in 1996 Cat­a­stroph­i­cal­ly Col­lapse.’ (1995)
Robert Met­calfe, Founder of 3COM
What does this mean for eleQtron?
Who­ev­er invents some­thing, has a pur­pose in mind. That can obscure the view to oth­er, even more inter­est­ing appli­ca­tions. That is why we want to offer a quan­tum com­put­er, as soon as pos­si­ble, to a large user com­mu­ni­ty — even if the com­put­er is not as per­fect as it could the­o­ret­i­cal­ly be.

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Quan­tum Computer
Quan­tum com­put­ers are capa­ble of per­form­ing par­al­lel com­pu­ta­tions. With each qubit, the num­ber of oper­a­tions that can be per­formed in par­al­lel dou­bles. In the future, this will enable us to effi­cient­ly tack­le pre­vi­ous­ly unsolv­able problems.
Why Quan­tum Computing?
Ion Qubits
The ions of a par­tic­u­lar species always have exact­ly the same prop­er­ties under com­pa­ra­ble envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions. This makes them the best atom­ic clocks in the world, as well as an excel­lent and reli­able qubit. 
Why our Qubits?
MAGIC
MAGIC (MAg­net­ic Gra­di­ent Induced Cou­pling) enables the con­trol of qubits with sta­t­ic mag­net­ic fields and scal­able radio fre­quen­cy fields — as wide­ly used in com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­nol­o­gy. The con­cept was invent­ed by founder Christof Wun­der­lich and devel­oped sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly in his Siegen research group.
Why MAGIC?

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