Annual Report 2025
We are proud to present our Annual Report for 2025. UNESCO declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of quantum mechanics as a formal scientific discipline. For QuTech, this was an ideal opportunity to highlight our mission: scaling reliable quantum computers and networks, from fundamental qubits to systems, software, and applications, and in close collaboration with a thriving quantum technology ecosystem for which we act as an incubator and enabler.
In Delft, QuTech and QDNL Delft organised the Delft Quantum Showcase, where researchers, startups and industry partners from the Delft hub presented their work and forged new collaborations, and in the second half of the year, QuTech chaired the international conference Superconducting Qubits & Algorithms (together with partners), as well as the biennial Quantum Networking Workshop.
Scientifically, QuTech achieved major milestones in 2025 with direct implications for scalability and practical application. One highlight was the development of QNodeOS, a control system for quantum networks that enables programmable, hardware-independent network applications. In quantum computing, we demonstrated that an electron can be moved across micrometer scales while preserving its spin, offering new design flexibility for on-chip connectivity. Another example was the controlled creation and movement of Majorana bound states in a chain of quantum dots by QuTech researchers; a significant step toward topological qubits.
Commercialisation remained a core focus. The startup ecosystem originating from QuTech, TU Delft, and TNO saw growing investments in 2025 and the joint Delft-grown companies now employ over 500 people. The total number of professionals in research and industry within the Delft quantum hub has grown to more than 1,000 people. Additionally, QuTech spun off another new startup – Frostbyte – (after spinning off three new companies in 2024), we saw more quantum companies moving to Delft to set up a presence, and our computing demonstrator Quantum Inspire 2.0 – built in collaboration with the ecosystem – received further upgrades allowing it to play a role in future use case research.
At QuTech we are all working hard to further develop our role as a cornerstone insitute for the development of quantum technology in Europe and the Netherlands. We are proud to do our part building a vision for the future and developing policy and as our field moves closer to real-world applications.
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Annual Report 2024
We are proud to present our Annual Report for 2024. At QuTech, we strive for scientific excellence and economic relevance, and we aim to demonstrate leadership in achieving these goals. In 2024, we saw success across all these areas.
We achieved scientific milestones in all three divisions – Quantum Computing, Quantum Internet, and Qubit Research – contributing to our consistently high standing in international publication-based rankings. In terms of economic impact and valorisation, three new spin-offs were launched, and the existing ecosystem has grown to surpass QuTech in staff size. In the third area, leadership, we continued to embrace the responsibilities that come with being an institution of our scale.
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Annual Report 2023
We are proud to present the annual report for 2023. Together, we’re not just moving forward; we’re building momentum, bit by bit, towards our mission of creating the quantum future. Reflecting on the past year, we’ve accomplished significant milestones. Among them, our research efforts yielded a new, bottom-up approach to making robust qubits, a chessboard-like method for addressing many quantum dots, and an expanded collaboration with Fujitsu on colour centre qubits. Furthermore, we developed the QuTech EtiQuette, promoting socially responsible behaviour.
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Annual Report 2022
We are proud to present our annual report for 2022. Together, we have accomplished important milestones towards our mission of creating the quantum future. To name a few: we produced the first industrially manufactured quantum bit together with our partner Intel. We succeeded in teleporting quantum information across a rudimentary network of 3 nodes. QuTech’s spin-off Q*Bird began connecting the port of Rotterdam to a quantum network that cannot be tapped or hacked. In addition, an international review committee concluded that the quality of QuTech research and engineering activities is excellent beyond doubt.
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Annual Report 2021
We look back with pride on a year of personal and collective highlights. In April, we received the wonderful news that the full proposal of the Quantum Delta NL consortium was granted by the National Growth Fund. In October, Lieven Vandersypen received the Spinoza Award, the highest award in Dutch science. And in November, we launched the demonstrator platform Quantum Network Explorer, bringing the possibilities of quantum internet to everyone’s home. Throughout the year, we have witnessed strong growth of our local quantum ecosystem.
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Annual Report 2020
2020 has been a year of scientific and organizational highlights, but also a year of empty corridors and online meetings. It has required us to reinvent ourselves and it has been a challenging ride for everyone. We are particularly proud of the QuTech staff, who have been able to keep out institute working in such difficult times. Remote and on-site we have continued to pursue our mission: developing scalable prototypes of a quantum computer and an inherently safe quantum internet, based on the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics.
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