Pasqal
French neutral-atom quantum-computing company spun out of Institut d'Optique in 2019 by Alain Aspect, Antoine Browaeys, and Thierry Lahaye. Builds rubidium-87 optical-tweezer arrays that run both analog Hamiltonian-simulation and digital gate-based modes; the only neutral-atom vendor with QPUs installed in EuroHPC supercomputing centres and a commercial 200-qubit deployment at Saudi Aramco in Dhahran. Flagship Orion Gamma carries 140+ qubits; the published roadmap targets early FTQC by 2028 (Centaurus) and 100 logical qubits by 2029 (Lyra). SPAC business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp II announced March 2026.
Timeline
Current flagship
Orion Gamma — neutral-atom Orion gen-3 (Rb-87, 140+ qubits, 2 logical qubits demonstrated)
Milestones
- 2026-03Announces business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp II; Nasdaq listing planned 2026, Euronext Paris dual-listing to follow; EUR 340M new financing (EUR 170M private round + EUR 170M convertible)
- 2026-02Delivers 140-qubit Orion-class neutral-atom QPU to CINECA (Bologna) under EuroHPC EuroQCS-Italy contract
- 2025-10200-qubit neutral-atom system — what the company described as Saudi Arabia's first quantum computer — goes live at Saudi Aramco's data centre in Dhahran
- 2025-06Releases updated 2025 roadmap — upgradable Orion / Vela / Centaurus / Lyra platform path toward early FTQC by 2028, impactful FTQC by 2029
- 2024-11Inaugurates Orion Beta ("Ruby") QPU at GENCI/CEA (Saclay) and a second Pasqal QPU at Forschungszentrum Jülich under the HPCQS programme
- 2024Exceeds 1,000 trapped neutral atoms in a single processor array
- 2023-01Closes EUR 100M Series B led by Temasek to scale neutral-atom hardware
Roadmap
- 2026 250-qubit QPU targeted at quantum advantage on an industry-relevant problem (first half of 2026) source ↗
- 2027 Vela generation — 200+ physical qubits, 20 logical qubits source ↗
- 2028 Centaurus generation — ~10,000 physical qubits, early fault-tolerant quantum computing (early FTQC) source ↗
- 2029 Lyra generation — 100 high-fidelity logical qubits, impactful FTQC; two-qubit gate fidelity target 99.9% source ↗
Capability details
Quantum computing
- Qubit type
- neutral-atom
- Physical qubits
- 200
- Logical qubits
- 2
- 1Q gate fidelity
- —
- 2Q gate fidelity
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- T₁
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- T₂
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- EC code
- —
- Connectivity
- programmable
6 unverified fields
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modalities.qc.one_q_fidelity -
modalities.qc.two_q_fidelity -
modalities.qc.coherence_t1_ms -
modalities.qc.coherence_t2_ms -
modalities.qc.ec_code -
modalities.qc.gate_set
People
- Loïc Henriet — CEO (since 2025-03) ↗
- Wasiq Bokhari — Executive Chairman (since 2025-03) ↗
- Antoine Browaeys — Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer (since 2019) ↗
- Georges-Olivier Reymond — Co-Founder & Chief Strategic Alliances Officer (since 2025-03) ↗
- Barbara Bonneau — Chief Operating Officer (since 2024) ↗
- Véronique Dentan — Chief Production & Project Officer (since 2024) ↗
- Adrien Signoles — Chief Hardware Officer (since 2024) ↗
- Mourad Beji — Chief Software Officer (since 2024) ↗
- Jean-Yves Quentel — Chief Financial Officer (since 2024) ↗
- Christophe Jurczak — Co-Founder & Board Member (since 2019) ↗
- Alain Aspect — Co-Founder & Chair, Scientific Advisory Board (since 2019) ↗
- Thierry Lahaye — Co-Founder (Institut d'Optique) (since 2019) ↗
References
- press https://www.pasqal.com/newsroom/pasqal-releases-2025-roadmap/ 2025 roadmap — Orion / Vela / Centaurus / Lyra generations, FTQC path
- press https://www.aramco.com/en/news-media/news/2025/aramco-and-pasqal-make-history-with-saudi-arabias-first-quantum-computer Aramco 200-qubit deployment, Dhahran
- press https://www.pasqal.com/newsroom/pasqal-selected-to-deliver-new-quantum-computer/ EuroQCS-Italy 140-qubit CINECA contract
- press https://www.pasqal.com/newsroom/pasqal-drives-europes-quantum-industrialization-with-the-integration-of-two-qpus-into-europes-first-hybrid-hpc-quantum-infrastructure/ GENCI/CEA + Jülich HPCQS QPU inaugurations
- press https://www.pasqal.com/newsroom/pasqal-a-global-leader-in-neutral-atom-quantum-computing-to-go-public-via-business-combination-with-bleichroeder-acquisition-corp-ii/ Nasdaq / Euronext dual-listing announcement (March 2026)
- paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06481-y Reference neutral-atom hardware paper (Evered et al., Nature 2023) — 99.5% parallel entangling gates on Rb arrays; relevant context, not a Pasqal-authored result.