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28 July 2025

Publication: Optimization and Synthesis of Quantum Circuits with Global Gates

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Leiden University use global interactions, such as the Global Mølmer-Sørensen gate present in ion trap hardware, to optimize and synthesize quantum circuits.

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10 July 2025

Publication: First-principles analysis of the effect of magnetic states on the oxygen vacancy formation energy in doped La0.5 Sr0.5 CoO3 perovskite

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Fraunhofer ENAS employ first-principles calculations to systematically investigate the impact of 3d transition-metal doping on the oxygen vacancy formation energies in the La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 perovskite.

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26 June 2025

Publication: Meson spectroscopy of exotic symmetries of Ising criticality in Rydberg atom arrays

In this contribution to the EQUALITY project, PASQAL researchers probe these emergent symmetries in a Rydberg atom quantum processing unit, leveraging its tunable geometry to realize both chain and ladder configurations.

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26 May 2025

EQUALITY Organises Webinar Series to Advance Industrial Applications of Quantum Computing

Project partners will showcase key advancements that bring quantum computing closer to real-world industrial use.

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22 May 2025

Publication: PulserDiff: a pulse differentiable extension for Pulser

In this contribution to the EQUALITY project, PASQAL researchers introduce PulserDiff, a user-friendly and open-source Pulser extension designed to optimize pulse sequences over a well-defined set of control parameters that drive the quantum computation.

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08 May 2025

Publication: Spin-glass quantum phase transition in amorphous arrays of Rydberg atoms

In this contribution to the EQUALITY project, PASQAL researchers perform unbiased quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the ground state of quantum Ising models for amorphous arrays of Rydberg atoms.

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28 November 2024

Publication: The role of data-induced randomness in quantum machine learning classification tasks

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Leiden University introduce a metric for binary classification tasks, the class margin, by merging the concepts of average randomness and classification margin.

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27 November 2024

EQUALITY highlighted at the Da Vinci Dialogues

Event co-organised by project partner Da Vinci Labs and La Fabrique du Futur was held on November 26th, in Paris, France.

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21 November 2024

EQUALITY partner Da Vinci Labs prenset the project at the Alain Aspect Symposium 2024

Event on Quantum Science Applications in Climate Change was held in Paris, France, on November 19 and 20, 2024.

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21 November 2024

EQUALITY project presented at the European Quantum Technology Conference 2024

Event took place in Lisbon, Portugal, from November 18 to 20, 2024

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08 November 2024

EQUALITY Year 2 consortium meeting

The project consortium got together in Leiden (NL) to discuss the accomplishments in the project's second year and the plans for the future.

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07 November 2024

Publication: Optimal quantum algorithm for Gibbs state preparation

In this work, EQUALITY partners from INRIA prove that, at high enough temperatures, a dissipative evolution inspired by existing models of open system thermalization reaches the Gibbs state in time scaling logarithmically with system size.

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05 November 2024

Publication: Multiple-basis representation of quantum states

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Leiden University explore a new hybrid, efficient quantum-classical representation of quantum states, the multiple-basis representation.

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18 October 2024

Publication: Optimization of Quantum Systems Emulation via a Variant of the Bandwidth Minimization Problem

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Pasqal introduce a weighted-BMP, a variant of the Bandwidth Minimization Problem, with a significant application in optimizing quantum emulation.

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13 October 2024

Publication: Automated Reasoning in Quantum Circuit Compilation

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Leiden University ask the question of how effective the methods motivated by classical automated reasoning can be for quantum compilation.

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27 September 2024

EQUALITY presented at the Bitkom Quantum Summit 2024

EQUALITY partner Daniel Guijo from Pasqal presented the developments of the project during the Bitkom Quantum Summit held on September 25 and 26, 2024, in Berlin, Germany.

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27 August 2024

Publication: Quantized Thouless pumps protected by interactions in dimerized Rydberg tweezer arrays

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Pasqal and collaborators study Thouless pumps in an interacting spin chain described by the dimerized XXZ Hamiltonian.

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19 July 2024

Horizon Europe’s EQUALITY project advances towards quantum algorithms for industrial applications

The project’s goal is to develop a full stack of technologies aimed at bringing practical advantage of quantum computing to the industry in the near term. Read our new press release.

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01 July 2024

Publication: Amorphous quantum magnets in a two-dimensional Rydberg atom array

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Pasqal propose to simulate amorphous quantum magnets with Rydberg atoms trapped in optical tweezers and benchmark the properties of these systems in the quantum regime with a perturbative approach.

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10 June 2024

Publication: Variational protocols for emulating digital gates using analog control with always-on interactions

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Pasqal design variational pulse sequences tailored for neutral atom quantum simulators and show that it is possible to engineer layers of single-qubit and multi-qubit gates.

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05 April 2024

Publication: Enriching diagrams with algebraic operations

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Leiden University extend diagrammatic reasoning in monoidal categories with algebraic operations and equations. The authors achieve this by considering monoidal categories that are enriched in the category of Eilenberg-Moore algebras for a monad.

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02 April 2024

Publication: On the expressivity of embedding quantum kernels

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Leiden University and collaborators raise the fundamental question: can all quantum kernels be expressed as the inner product of quantum feature states?

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20 March 2024

Publication: Noise-induced shallow circuits and absence of barren plateaus

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Inria and collaborators, motivated by realistic hardware considerations of the pre-fault-tolerant era, study the impact of uncorrected noise on quantum circuits.

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19 March 2024

Publication: Efficient thermalization and universal quantum computing with quantum Gibbs samplers

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Inria and collaborators prove that a recently introduced, efficiently implementable dissipative evolution thermalizes to the Gibbs state in time scaling polynomially with system size at high enough temperatures

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20 February 2024

Publication: A hybrid quantum algorithm to detect conical intersections

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Leiden University, Pasqal, and collaborators propose a hybrid quantum classical algorithm to resolve the conical intersections with the help of the Berry phase. Due to its connection to the topology, such an algorithm is much more robust to errors and noise.

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22 December 2023

Publication: Shallow quantum circuits for deeper problems

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Leiden University and collaborators investigate to what extent it is possible to mimic the performance of a deeper quantum computation by using a shallower device many times.

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19 December 2023

EQUALITY consortium launches first project video

EQUALITY brings together scientists, innovators, and prominent industrial players to develop cutting-edge quantum computer algorithms to solve strategic industrial problems.

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15 November 2023

The EQUALITY consortium celebrates the project’s first year!

The meeting took place at PASQAL’s headquarters in France, on November 14th and 15th, 2023.

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13 July 2023

[Blog] Tackling complex industrial problems with quantum computers

EQUALITY’s objective is to solidify the link between strategic European industries and the emerging quantum ecosystem, while also contributing to technologies which are critical to the green transition.

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19 June 2023

[Blog] On the realisability of quantum advantage

Fundamental limitations bound the performance of a realistic quantum computer. For which class of applications can they have a tangible benefit over classical computers?

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24 May 2023

[In the Media] IT for Business: A consortium to open up industrial opportunities for quantum technology

Equality Project and partner Da Vinci Labs are highlighted in the french magazine IT for Business.

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13 May 2023

Publication: Equivariant quantum circuits for learning on weighted graphs

In this work, EQUALITY partners from Leiden University and collaborators introduce an ansatz for learning tasks on weighted graphs that respects an important graph symmetry, namely equivariance under node permutations.

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02 May 2023

Unitary Fund to open first European office in collaboration with Da Vinci Labs

EQUALITY partner Da Vinci Labs acted as an incubator for Unitary Fund’s European operations, providing incorporation and fundraising advisory services for the non-profit organization supporting the quantum technology ecosystem

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14 April 2023

[Blog] EQUALITY celebrates the World Quantum Day

Celebrated on April 14th, the initiative from quantum scientists all over the planet aims to engaging the public in the understanding of quantum science and technology.

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18 March 2023

[In the Media] BFMTV: AI, quantum and synthetic biology under development at Da Vinci Labs

Project partner Xavier Aubry, from Da Vinci Labs, presents the EQUALITY Project in the French TV channel BFMTV.

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07 March 2023

[In the Media] L’Usine Nouvelle: The European EQUALITY project aims to put quantum algorithms to work for industry

The EQUALITY Project is highlighted in an article in the French website and magazine L'Usine Nouvelle and IT Industries and Technology.

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23 February 2023

EQUALITY consortium selected by Horizon Europe to develop quantum algorithms for industrial applications

The project brings together scientists, innovators, and industrial players and will receive a cumulative six-million-euro funding from the European Commission over the next three years.

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29 November 2022

EQUALITY partners meet for the project kickoff meeting

The EQUALITY project's kickoff meeting took place on Nov. 29th in Hamburg, Germany.

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