Fraunhofer IAF to Lead a €18.1 Million ($20M USD) "SPINNING" Project to Develop a Diamond Spin-ph...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF will be leading a consortium of 28 organizations including, besides Fraunhofer, six universities, two non-profit research institutions, five industrial companies (SMEs and spin-offs), and fourteen associated partners (ten of them are companies). The project will be 89.8% funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It will last for three years and will initially target 10 qubits with an expansion to 100 qubits or more as the project continues. The technology will employ spin qubits in synthetic diamond created by implanting nitrogen atoms (NV centers) in a diamond lattice. The expected benefits of this approach include high qubit connectivities with low cooling requirements. To learn more about the SPINNING project, you can view a press release issued by Fraunhofer announcing the program, another press release issued by Quantum Brilliance, one of the consortium partners, and a web page with a project profile of the SPINNING project.

March 10, 2022