- Muquans is a French startup pioneering commercial quantum gravity sensors and atomic clocks based on cold atoms. It has developed robust and reliable technological solutions to bring quantum sensing from academia to real-world products. - Pasqal is a French quantum computing startup building scalable 2D and 3D atomic array quantum processors based on Rydberg atom interactions. It aims to develop a 1000 qubit blueprint using expertise from labs and industry. - The presentations highlighted France's excellence and leadership in cold atom research, and the potential for startups like Muquans and Pasqal to advance quantum technologies through commercialization and collaboration with the research community.

1. ORGANIZED BY
JUNE 20TH
2019
French Q-Startups Pitches
Georges-Olivier REYMOND
CEO
Pasqal, France
Bruno DESRUELLE
CEO & Co-Founder
Muquans, France

2. Atomtronics
Scalable technologies
&
Supply Chain
for the Quantum Industry
Bruno Desruelle – Muquans
Georges-Olivier Reymond - PASQAL

3. Cold atoms: French excellence for decades
3
1983
Bell’s inequalities violation
by Alain Aspect
2001
First single atom in an
optical tweezer
1998
First French BEC
20112016
72 atoms in
optical tweezers
Nobel prize for Claude
Cohen Tannoudji
1997
Nobel prize for
Alfred Kastler
1966
Nobel prize for
Serge Haroche
2012

4. Cold atoms
Atomic temperatures close to the absolute zero (< 1 µK)
→ quantum manipulation with laser beams and MW fields
A state of matter offering unique properties
for quantum sensing and quantum information processing:
• Superposition and entanglement
• Quantum interference
• Giant quantum states
• Control at the single particle level
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5. A huge technological challenge
• Intelligent laser system:
- Several wavelengths
- Accurate optical frequency
- Spectral agility
- Complex sequence
• Ultra high vacuum environment, non
magnetic
• Beam shaping, spatial light modulators
• Low noise electronics
• Complex software : real time, large data
volume
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6. Muquans: a Quantum pioneer
Spin-off of Institut d’Optique and LNE-SYRTE
Only company in the world to propose commercial quantum gravity sensors
Absolute Quantum gravimeter Cold atom based Clock
Control Unit :
• Laser source
• Drive electronics
• Power supply
Sensor head :
Fall chamber
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7. From the lab to products
• 10 years of R&D in order to fill the gap between academic
proof of concept and real-life product
• A full set of quantum proof technological solutions :
• Extreme performances
• Robustness
• Reliability
• Some building blocks are fundamental enabling technologies
for cold atoms based QC
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8. • Hit the ball running with Muquans
technologies (UHV, lasers)
• Same atoms, new configurations, building
on the science of Rydberg states
• A blueprint for 1000 qubits
• Highly skilled resources from labs and
industry
• A computing stack built for the HPC
environment from the start
PASQAL -Scalable 2-3D Quantum Information
Processors
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9. Atomic arrays (1/2)
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10. Atomic arrays (2/2)
P1 P3
time
P2
1µs 0,5µs0,5µs
Laser pulses
P1 and P3
Laser pulse P2
• The interaction, and thus entanglement, is
fully controlled with laser pulses
• Excellent connectivity for large ensemble
entanglement
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11. At Pasqal the answer is 72 not 42

12. At the heart of the EU strategy for the Quantum
industry
• Atomic arrays have been selected along
superconductors and ions for QC
• The 9.2meur strong PASQuanS flagship project
is co-led by PASQAL co-founder A. Browaeys
• A strong community of experimentalists,
theoreticians, algorithmists, industrials

13. PASQAL – the first QC startup born in France
Ecosystem
Investor

15. bruno.desruelle@muquans.com
georges@pasqal.io
Contact
Thank you!