- A detailed technical and financial roadmap, including performance milestones, risk assessments, financial viability assessment, and commercialization timelines.
- Technical documentation that summarizes preliminary results from benchmarks ranging from component level (e.g. fidelity measurements, connectivity, energy-state relaxation time, dephasing time), via system level (e.g. GHZ states, Quantum Volume, CLOPS, Clifford volume) to application level (e.g. Q-Score, MaxCut, quantum compilation volumetric benchmark, Quantum Application Score) and tangible proofs of principle or prototypes, representing the basis for advancing solutions towards validated implementations in real-world settings in Phase 2, if the project is retained.
- An application strategy identifying target sectors and detailing how the proposed integrated quantum systems will deliver quantifiable improvements.
- Expression of interest from potential end-user partners who should collaborate with the project in Phase 2, if the project is retained.
Objective:The primary objective is to establish a comprehensive technical and financial roadmap that demonstrates the potential of the quantum computer developed by the start-up for scientific innovation, economic relevance, and eventual industrial-scale deployment. In addition to the roadmap, eligible companies should deliver physical proofs of principle or preliminary prototypes that demonstrate the feasibility of their integrated hardware and software quantum computing systems. These outputs will be subject to technical assessment and a financial pre-screening, and pending a positive outcome, they will form the basis for consideration in Phase 2. The projects should showcase the added value of their quantum computing solutions in one or more carefully chosen application sectors, selected by the start-up based on technical feasibility and projected market return. As of Phase 2, the start-up should be accompanied by a number of users representative of the selected application sectors. Applicants are encouraged to include in their proposal Expressions of Interest from those user representatives.