News Summary

• Paris-based quantum computing company Alice & Bob and France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) announced today that they will collaborate on software enabling quantum computers to run alongside conventional supercomputers.
• The project focuses on Qaptiva, a quantum application platform created by the French state-owned company Bull.
• The partners aim to create algorithms for early fault-tolerant quantum computers, which they expect to see by around 2030.
• The research will begin with many-body physics, which studies how large numbers of interacting particles behave.