𝗫𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗥𝗢 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗜𝘁𝘀 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗼𝗻𝘀! 

We are thrilled to share exciting news: our XAPHIRO quantum computer, developed for the DLR Quantum Computing Initiative, has successfully trapped single ions at the laboratory at DESY in Hamburg!

This marks a key milestone for the XAPHIRO consortium — a collaboration between QUDORA Technologies and NXP Semiconductors — signaling the successful completion of the system’s design and assembly phase.

Why is this exciting? Trapping ions is the first moment everything must work in harmony — vacuum system, lasers, optics, electronics, and our microfabricated 50-qubit quantum processor. And it just did as you can see in the video below showing a magnified image of fluorescence light emitted by a single ion confined by electric fields in our microfabricated quantum processor.

Huge shout-out to our passionate team driving this forward every day and turning our vision of a scalable quantum computer into reality!

What’s next? In the coming months, we’ll dive into detailed system characterization, calibration, and fine-tuning to prepare for first quantum operations. Stay tuned for more updates as we bring quantum computing to life.

Learn more about XAPHIRO here: https://qci.dlr.de/xaphiro