-Prior to the establishment of AQT, Berkeley Lab internal investments seeded the acquisition of a large, 1000 microwatt dilution refrigerator targeting full control of 128 qubits.
-Developed 8 qubit processors with varied topology; gate / readout fidelities > 95%; coherence > 100 μs
-Continuous hardware improvements leveraging wiring for 128 qubits with 99% fidelity
-User program was launched. 20+ research proposals were submitted at the inaugural call (Fall 2020), ranging over a variety of topics: algorithms or simulations; characterization validation or control; ontrol hardware, firmware, or software; processor architectures

-Using circuits to determine quantum capacity: verification/validation, noise detection, suppression, mitigation, noise resilience architectures, and so on.
-Quantum simulation experiments

-Executing algorithms for scientific computation and benchmarking on state-of-the-art NISQ hardware
-Defining the next generation architectures and algorithms via co-design
-Defining the path to operate deep circuits

-The current hardware configuration involves the parallel operation of multiple processor architectures to explore a larger design and application tradespace.
-Continued expansion of quantum processor library available for users
-Increased quantum volume (faster gates, parametric coupling and control, smart compiling)
-Larger numbers of qubits [10-20]
– Additional circuits and topologies – flux-based devices (fluxonium), and bosonic encoded qubits (Kerr-Cat)
-Enhanced control options, including fast feedback – a feature requested by several users.
-Exploration of distributed / modular computing architectures