Quantum
per l’Italia
Research, industry and institutions:
from infrastructure to applications.
Villa Saporiti Como, Italy
Inauguration of Volta B1, a quantum system with over 4,400 qubits, in the context of the celebrations for the bicentenary of Alessandro Volta’s death.
Research at the intersection of science and computation.
Q-Alliance connects quantum technology companies, the scientific community and industry to develop research programs and evaluate applications of advanced computing.
Two approaches. A shared research agenda.
Q-Alliance brings together D-Wave, IonQ and academic and industrial partners. Its work connects quantum annealing and gate-based computing with scientific questions and applied challenges.
The Scientific High Council guides the research agenda, connecting expertise in physics, mathematics, statistics and computational science. The emphasis is on well-defined problems, reproducible methods and measurable outcomes.
Meet the Scientific High CouncilThe Volta Declaration
On Quantum, Artificial Intelligence and Sovereign Computing Infrastructures
The declaration sets out a framework for cooperation among research organizations, industry and public institutions on quantum technologies, artificial intelligence and advanced computational infrastructure.
The Volta Forum provides a platform for scientific exchange, technology transfer and policy dialogue.
Read the declaration · IT / ENResearch and applications
The research agenda proposes 26 strategic programs across eight domains. The areas outlined below span foundational methods and applications; their performance and practical relevance remain questions for investigation.
Materials
Quantum simulation, nonlinear dynamics, materials design with QUBO models and strongly correlated systems.
Artificial intelligence
Quantum neural networks, support vector machines, reinforcement learning and generative models.
Finance
Portfolio optimization, Monte Carlo pricing, credit risk, fraud detection and hedging.
Life sciences
Drug discovery, protein-folding optimization and genomics.
Infrastructure
Routing and traffic, HPC scheduling, smart grids, security and sensing.
Governance & insurance
Socio-economic simulation, game theory, risk aggregation, claims and reinsurance optimization.
Scientific meetings & exchange
Moments from Q-Alliance’s scientific and institutional activities.
From an applied problem to a testable model
The Great Challenge invites academic and industrial teams to formulate real-world NP-hard optimization problems as Ising or quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) models for quantum annealing and hybrid solvers.
Evaluation focuses on model clarity, hardware compatibility, scalability, reproducibility and solution quality. Quantum and hybrid approaches must be assessed against appropriate classical baselines.
The Great ChallengeWork with Q-Alliance
Researchers, institutions and companies can contribute to research programs, propose projects or request an assessment of a scientific or industrial use case.
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