CEN/CLC/JTC 22 - Quantum Technologies
The JTC shall produce standardization deliverables in the field of quantum technologies. This field includes quantum enabling technologies, quantum sub-systems, quantum platforms & systems, quantum composite systems and applications. The standardization deliverables cover but are not limited to the following areas: quantum metrology, sensing and enhanced imaging; quantum computing and simulation; quantum communication and quantum cryptography. The JTC will provide guidance to other technical committees concerned with quantum technologies. The JTC shall also consider the adoption of and contribution to relevant international standards and standards from other organizations, like ISO/IEC JTC 1 and its subcommittees. The JTC shall produce standardization deliverables to address European market and societal needs, as well as underpinning EU legislation, policies, principles, and values.
Quantum Technologies
The JTC shall produce standardization deliverables in the field of quantum technologies. This field includes quantum enabling technologies, quantum sub-systems, quantum platforms & systems, quantum composite systems and applications. The standardization deliverables cover but are not limited to the following areas: quantum metrology, sensing and enhanced imaging; quantum computing and simulation; quantum communication and quantum cryptography. The JTC will provide guidance to other technical committees concerned with quantum technologies. The JTC shall also consider the adoption of and contribution to relevant international standards and standards from other organizations, like ISO/IEC JTC 1 and its subcommittees. The JTC shall produce standardization deliverables to address European market and societal needs, as well as underpinning EU legislation, policies, principles, and values.
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CEN/CLC/JTC 22 is a Technical Committee within the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). It is named "Quantum Technologies" and is responsible for: The JTC shall produce standardization deliverables in the field of quantum technologies. This field includes quantum enabling technologies, quantum sub-systems, quantum platforms & systems, quantum composite systems and applications. The standardization deliverables cover but are not limited to the following areas: quantum metrology, sensing and enhanced imaging; quantum computing and simulation; quantum communication and quantum cryptography. The JTC will provide guidance to other technical committees concerned with quantum technologies. The JTC shall also consider the adoption of and contribution to relevant international standards and standards from other organizations, like ISO/IEC JTC 1 and its subcommittees. The JTC shall produce standardization deliverables to address European market and societal needs, as well as underpinning EU legislation, policies, principles, and values. This committee has published 1 standards.
CEN/CLC/JTC 22 develops CEN standards in the area of Information technology. The scope of work includes: The JTC shall produce standardization deliverables in the field of quantum technologies. This field includes quantum enabling technologies, quantum sub-systems, quantum platforms & systems, quantum composite systems and applications. The standardization deliverables cover but are not limited to the following areas: quantum metrology, sensing and enhanced imaging; quantum computing and simulation; quantum communication and quantum cryptography. The JTC will provide guidance to other technical committees concerned with quantum technologies. The JTC shall also consider the adoption of and contribution to relevant international standards and standards from other organizations, like ISO/IEC JTC 1 and its subcommittees. The JTC shall produce standardization deliverables to address European market and societal needs, as well as underpinning EU legislation, policies, principles, and values. Currently, there are 1 published standards from this technical committee.
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This document defines a layer model that covers the entire stack of universal gate-based quantum computers. The group of lower-level (hardware) layers are organized in different hardware stacks tailored to different hardware architectures, while the group of higher-level (software) layers are built on top of these and expected to be common for all quantum computing systems. The higher-up in the stack, the more agnostic it will be from underlying layers. Reducing the dependencies between higher and lower layers is a crucial point for optimized quantum computations. A co-requisite point is to allow for a free but well-defined flow of information up and down the higher and lower layers to allow for co-designing hardware and software.
The scope of this Technical Report is restricted to a universal gate-based quantum-computing model, also known as a digital or circuit quantum-computing model, on multiple physical systems such as transmon, spin-qubit, ion-trap, neutral-atom, and others. This document does not apply to technologies like the universal adiabatic quantum-computing model and its heuristic form quantum annealing, if they do not correspond to a gate-based quantum circuit. Due to major architecture differences in lower layers, it does not apply either to the universal photonic one-way quantum computing model even though it is fully compatible with gate-based quantum-computing model. Moreover, quantum computing models that are not universal, such as quantum simulators and special purposes, are also out of scope.
Limiting the scope to a universal gate-based quantum computing model is justified by expected commonalities at the higher layers, mainly above the hardware abstraction layer (HAL), up to the service layer. These commonalities imply a market for software products usable for this wide range of quantum computing technologies.
The present Technical Report is focussed on a high-level (functional) description of the layers involved. Additional details of the individual layers are reserved for other future CEN/CLC/TRs.
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