Find all the latest news and publications from the MetriQs-France programme.
Events
- 11th December 2025 – Inauguration of the quantum metrology platform MetriQs-France
- 1st -4th December 2025 - QUEST-IS'25 conference // 1st International Quantum Engineering conference and exhibition
- 4th November 2025 – Kick-off of the 2nd research project of the MetriQs-France programme, MOCQUA
- 24th- 25th June 2025 - TQCI international seminar // 3rd edition of TQCI seminar on Quantum Computing Benchmarks
- 4th- 5th June 2024 - TQCI international seminar // 2nd edition of TQCI seminar on Quantum Computing Benchmarks
- 11th May 2023 - TQCI international seminar // 1st edition of TQCI seminar on Quantum Computing Benchmarks
News
Inauguration of the first photonic quantum computer, Lucy - 14 April 2026
On April 14th 2026, Anne Le Hénanff, Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, and Bruno Bonnell, Secretary General for Investment, inaugurated the first French industrial photonic quantum computer at CEA’s Très Grand Centre de Calcul (TGCC) in Bruyères-le-Châtel. Lucy is the result of exemplary Franco-German cooperation between Quandela and attocube systems. This machine, co-financed by France 2030 as part of the National Quantum Strategy and EuroHPC, marks a decisive step for the European ecosystem and a major advancement.
Launch of the 6 R&D projects of the CRYONEXT programme - 4 March 2026
On March 4th 2026, a seminar held in Grenoble marked the launch of the six research and development projects of the CRYONEXT programme, dedicated to high-performance cryogenic systems for quantum technologies. The event aimed to present the project roadmaps and bring together all stakeholders in the field. This program works in synergy with the MetriQs-France programme.
Inauguration of the MetriQs-France Platform - 12 December 2025
On Thursday 11 December 2025, the brand new MetriQs-France Platform was inaugurated by Thomas Grenon, Director General of LNE, in the presence of Loïc Le Loarer, Coordinator of the National Strategy for Quantum Technologies at the General Secretariat for Investment, and Domitille Legrand, Director of Data Economy Projects at the Directorate-General for Enterprise.
Inauguration of the Jade and Ruby quantum computer - 13 November 2025
The High-Performance Computing and Quantum Simulator hybrid (HPCQS) project has taken a decisive step with the inauguration of two quantum computers – Jade and Ruby – installed respectively at the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) and the CEA.
Launch of the MOCQUA project - 4 November 2025
The MetriQsFrance programme has officially launched its new R&D project, MOCQUA, at LNE!
Delivery of Lucy at TGCC – 23 October 2023
Quandela, GENCI and CEA today announced the delivery of Lucy, a 12-qubit universal digital photonic quantum computer, to the Très Grand Centre de calcul (TGCC) of CEA. The system, delivered by the French-German consortium Quandela – attocube systems AG, was procured by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking in the context of the consortium EuroQCS-France.
Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding of the NMI-Q initiative – 15 October 2025
The national metrology institutes (NMIs) of the G7 countries and Australia announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the creation of NMI-Q. This initiative is aimed at coordinating development and sharing of measurement best practices in support of future standardization.
Deployment of Ruby at TGCC - 18 June 2025
LNE on the launch of the BACQ project - 12 June 2024
BACQ: Delivering an application-oriented benchmark suite for objective multi-criteria evaluation of quantum computing performance, a key to industrial uses - 4 May 2023
With the support of the national program on measurements, standards, and evaluation of quantum technologies MetriQs-France, a part of the French national quantum strategy, the BACQ project is dedicated to application-oriented benchmarks for quantum computing. The consortium gathering Thales, Eviden, an Atos business, CEA, CNRS, Teratec, and LNE aims at establishing performance evaluation criteria of reference, meaningful for industry users...
Scientific publications
2026
Xiangjing Liu, Harshit Verma, Yunlong Xiao, Oscar Dahlsten, Mile Gu. “Spatial Incompatibility Witnesses for Quantum Temporal Correlations”. 2026. ⟨hal-05521120⟩. DOI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01179
Stéphane Louise. “G-Score, the Maximum Cardinality Matching Gn Series as a Benchmark for Quantum Computers”. QUEST-IS 2025, Dec 2025, Paris, France. 2743, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp.260-269, 2026, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 978-3-032-13851-4. ⟨hal-05528587⟩. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-13852-1_26
Barkay Guttel, Danielle Gov, Noam Netzer, Uri Goldblatt, Sergey Hazanov, et al.. “Gradually opening Schrödinger’s box reveals a cascade of sharp dynamical transitions”. 2026. ⟨hal-05521300⟩. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2602.02672
Noe Olivier, Michel Nowak. “Monte Carlo Particle Transport on Quantum Computers”. QUEST-IS 2025, Dec 2025, Paris, France. 2744, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp.186-195, 2026, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 978-3-032-13854-5. ⟨hal-05514815⟩. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-032-13855-2_17
Harold Erbin, Pierre-Louis Burdeau, Corentin Bertrand, Thomas Ayral, Grégoire Misguich. “Many-body Quantum Score: a scalable benchmark for digital and analog quantum processors and first test on a commercial neutral atom device”. 2026. ⟨hal-05470263⟩. DOI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03461
Thibault Scoquart, Hugo Perrin, Kyrylo Snizhko. “Noise tailoring for error mitigation and for diagnozing digital quantum computers”. 2026. ⟨hal-05453355⟩. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2601.04830
Parveen Kumar, Yuval Gefen, Kyrylo Snizhko. “General theory of slow non-Hermitian evolution”. 2026. ⟨hal-05453377⟩. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2502.04214
Frédéric Barbaresco, Félicien Schopfer, Emmanuelle Vergnaud, Laurent Rioux, Christophe Labreuche, et al.. “BACQ - Application-Oriented Benchmarks for Quantum Computing”. QUEST-IS 2025, Dec 2025, Paris, France. 2743, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp.217-226, 2026, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 978-3-032-13851-4. ⟨hal-05528841⟩. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-13852-1_22
Christophe Labreuche. “Application of Multi-criteria Decision Aiding to Quantum Benchmarking: Some Results on Scale Invariance”. QUEST-IS 2025, Dec 2025, Paris, France. 2743, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp.237-247, 2026, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 978-3-032-13851-4. ⟨hal-05528814⟩. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-13852-1_24
2025
Carolyn E Wood, Harshit Verma, Fabio Costa, Magdalena Zych. “Operational models of temperature superpositions”. Physical Review Research, 2025, 7 (4), pp.043243. ⟨hal-05523630⟩. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/wf8m-zkqg
Stéphane Louise. “Vector Annealing, a Quantum-Inspired Technique: Benchmarking Performance Against Quantum and Simulated Annealing within the BACQ Framework”. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Aug 2025, Albuquerque, France. pp.1989-1996. ⟨hal-05456250⟩. DOI: 10.1109/QCE65121.2025.00217
Edison S. Carrera, Harold Erbin, Grégoire Misguich. “Preparing spin-squeezed states in Rydberg atom arrays via quantum optimal control”. Phys. Rev. A, 2025, 112 (5), pp.052615. ⟨hal-05184893⟩. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/wdqt-tpwz
Jeanette Miriam Lorenz, Thomas Monz, Jens Eisert, Daniel Reitzner, Félicien Schopfer, et al.. "Systematic benchmarking of quantum computers: status and recommendations". 2025. ⟨hal-05000550⟩. DOI : 10.48550/arXiv.2503.04905
Jérôme Houdayer, Grégoire Misguich. "TensorMixedStates: A Julia library for simulating pure and mixed quantum states using matrix product states. 2025". ⟨hal-04945872v2⟩. DOI : https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.11377
2024
Frédéric Barbaresco, Laurent Rioux, Christophe Labreuche, Michel Nowak, Noé Olivier, et al.. "BACQ -Application-oriented Benchmarks for Quantum Computing Delivering an application-oriented benchmark suite for objective multi-criteria evaluation of quantum computing performance, a key to industrial uses". 2024. ⟨hal-04814999⟩. DOI : 10.48550/arXiv.2403.12205
Josias Langbehn, Kyrylo Snizhko, Igor Gornyi, Giovanna Morigi, Yuval Gefen, et al.. "Dilute measurement-induced cooling into many-body ground states. PRX Quantum", 2024, 5, pp.030301. ⟨hal-04532488v2⟩. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.5.030301
Nicolò Piccione, Maria Maffei, Andrew Jordan, Kater Murch, Alexia Auffèves. "Exploring the Accuracy of Interferometric Quantum Measurements under Conservation Laws". Physical Review Letters, 2024, 133 (24), pp.240202. ⟨hal-04836067⟩. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.240202
