Research

BasQ focuses on the exploration and development of research around Quantum Technologies

BasQ seeks to consolidate and expand scientific leadership in multiple fields and bring research results closer to industrial exploitation, applying research innovations to develop new types of devices, materials and computing techniques.

Research areas

Quantum Computing
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Quantum Computing

Quantum computing harnesses unique properties that classical computers lack. Once fully realized, quantum computers will utilize these properties to efficiently solve scientific and technological challenges that are beyond the reach of today’s most powerful supercomputers.

Quantum Chemistry
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Quantum Chemistry

Quantum chemistry explores how the principles of quantum mechanics can be applied to chemical models and experiments involving chemical systems. It includes quantum phenomena at various levels, such as the electronic structure of matter, interactions with light, energy and charge transfer, collective behavior of complex ensembles, and the quantum chemical dynamics of time-evolving systems.

Quantum Sensing
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Quantum Sensing

Quantum Sensing harnesses the principles of quantum mechanics to detect and measure various physical quantities such as magnetic fields, gravitational fields, time, temperature, and other properties at extremely fine scales. BasQ researchers are currently developing quantum sensors with potential applications in a wide range of fields.

Quantum Materials
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Quantum Materials

Quantum materials research bridges a wide range of fields, integrating theory, experiments, and fabrication to understand and utilize these unique properties for scientific applications, such as aircraft development and scientific optical tools.

Quantum Communications
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Quantum Communications

Quantum Communications leverage quantum mechanical properties to achieve secure and efficient transmission of information, primarily through quantum cryptography (QKD) and quantum teleportation. These technologies represent a cutting-edge area of research with significant potential for transforming secure communication networks in the future.

High Energy Physics & Astrophysics
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High Energy Physics & Astrophysics

In high-energy and particle physics, researchers study nature at its most fundamental level, investigating particles that make up both ordinary and exotic forms of matter as well as cosmological phenomena such as dark matter.

Condensed Matter Physics
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Condensed Matter Physics

Condensed matter physics is a branch of physics that studies the properties and behaviors of solid and liquid matter. This field explores various states of matter, including solids, liquids, superconductors, and quantum fluids, and investigates phenomena like magnetism, superconductivity, and crystallography.

Photonics
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Photonics

Photonics is a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of physics, optics, electrical engineering, and materials science. It encompasses the study and application of light, typically focusing on the manipulation of light through various processes such as emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, amplification, and detection. Photonics finds applications across numerous fields, including telecommunications, information processing, medicine, manufacturing, and defense.

Research projects BasQ-IBM

Within BasQ´s general strategic approach, aimed at the development of fundamental knowledge and practical applications through cutting-edge projects in basic and applied research, the alliance with IBM aims to generate greater research, visibility, and collaborations around quantum computing in the Basque Country.

Within this framework, BasQ and IBM have signed multiple Joint Research Agreements (JRAs) to collaborate on research activities in areas such as Quantum Information Science, Quantum Computational Methods, Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Machine Learning.

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Joint Research Agreement 1 (2024)
Topic: Error mitigation methods for Quantum Dynamics problems

Overall goal: Design optimized quantum simulation methods for certain quantum dynamic phenomena and demonstrate sufficient noise reductions through error mitigation for those.

Specifically:

  1. CFM/MPC and IBM collaboration in the study of quantum error mitigation for out of equilibria phenomena in quantum spin chains.
  2. CFM/MPC and IBM collaboration in the study of quantum error mitigation for dynamics of molecules coupled to optical cavities.
  3. DIPC and IBM collaboration in the study of Krylov subspace methods for ground state estimation for problems arising in quantum chemistry and Lattice-based Hamiltonians.
  4. Universidad de Navarra/TECNUN and IBM collaboration in the study of projected Lindblad dynamics approaches for device error mitigation.

 

 

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Joint Research Agreement 2 (2024)
Topic: Quantum Kernel-based methods for classification & detection problems

Overall goal: Devise and apply scalable quantum Kernel-based machine learning techniques for certain classification and detection problems in physics and material science.

  1. DIPC and IBM collaboration in the study of approaches based on tensor networks on quantum contextual optimal transport and their performance for use cases in quantum machine learning.
  2. UPV/EHU and IBM collaboration in the study of quantum kernel methods for the computation of phase diagrams in many body physics.
  3. DIPC and IBM collaboration in the study of quantum machine learning problems for classification and detection problems arising in many body physics.
  4. Universidad de Navarra/TECNUN and IBM collaboration in the study of projected Lindblad dynamics based approaches for device error mitigation and quantum dynamics problem in many body physics.
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Joint Research Agreement 3
Topics: i) High-energy and particle physics and ii) Biophysics and medicine

Overall goal: i) Design optimized quantum simulation methods for fundamental problems in particle physics and ii) devise and apply scalable quantum machine learning techniques for certain problems in biophysics & medicine

  1. DIPC and IBM collaboration in the study of optimized quantum simulation methods and their performance for particular fundamental problems in particle physics.
  2. UPV/EHU, Universidad de Navarra/TECNUN and IBM collaboration in the study of quantum machine learning methods for particular challenges in healthcare, biophysics & medicine.
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Joint Research Agreement 1 (2025)
Topics: i) Quantum Computing Flagship Calculations for SIESTA (SIESTA-QCF) ii) Showing Quantum Utility for Ground State Estimation in Many Body Physics (SQUGSMB) and iii) Advancing Quantum Many-Body Simulations with NISQ Computers and AI Integration (AquaNISQ)

Overall goal: Development of scalable quantum computing techniques, demonstration of their utility for many-body physics and chemistry simulations on IBM Quantum systems, and the evaluation of the noise reduction through error mitigation.

  1. The Material Physics Center and IBM collaboration in the study of quantum error mitigation in the dynamics of time crystals, combining their expertise to produce reports detailing the methods applied and the noise reductions achieved.
  2. CIC nanoGUNE and IBM collaboration in the exploration of hybrid classical-quantum approaches using DFT embeddings for electronic structure calculations, combining their expertise to produce reports detailing the results obtained.
  3. The Donostia International Physics Center and IBM collaboration in the study of quantum phase transitions in lattice gauge theory using Krylov subspace methods, aiming to produce reports detailing the method’s performance.
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Joint Research Agreement 2 (2025)
Topics: i) Extrapolation of Von Neumann Dynamics beyond the reach of current Utility Scale Devices (VNDExUSD) ii) Quantum Simulation of Turbulent Regimes with Enhanced Algorithms (Q-STREAM)

Overall goal: Development of  scalable quantum computing techniques for equations in mathematical physics, demonstration of their utility on IBM Quantum systems, and the evaluation of the effectiveness of error mitigation in reducing noise.

  1. The BCAM and IBM collaboration in the exploration of quantum computing approaches for equations in mathematical physics, producing reports on the methods applied and results obtained using quantum computing systems.
  2. The Universidad de Navarra and IBM collaboration in the study of quantum signal extrapolation for device error mitigation, aiming to produce reports detailing the accuracy improvements achieved.