ARQA - Cervera Consortium for the alliance of Technology Centres for innovation in Quantum Computing applications for business.

The ARQA Network is projected as the main mechanism in Spain for the transfer of one of the emerging technologies with the greatest potential impact in the medium to long term, quantum computing.

It aims to become the connecting bridge between the supply in this technology, represented by the state of the art and the existing scientific and technological capabilities, both in the Network itself and in other agents of reference at national level, and the demand, represented by the needs and challenges posed by the Company.

To this end, the ARQA Network proposes the definition of a Technological Roadmap to solve highly complex practical problems faced by the Spanish (and international) industrial fabric related to its production model by analysing the viability and efficiency of the application of quantum computing techniques.

Specifically, in this consortium, three Artificial Intelligence problems are considered to be susceptible to be tackled by quantum computing: classification, optimisation and generative AI. In turn, these problems will be solved using different approaches based on pure quantum, simulated quantum, benchmarking or cryptographic techniques. All these solutions will be part of three demonstrators in three reference areas (Territory, Energy and Security) that allow to visualise the direct application of the technology as practical cases that can be easily understood by companies, facilitating the transfer of knowledge and, ultimately, offering companies a disruptive "quantum approach" with respect to the current classical approach.

The Cervera ARQA Network is part of the Cervera Technology 27 (TC27), framed in the thematic area of Quantum Computing and defined as: "Development of applications that use quantum computing technologies, addressing problems that traditional computing is not able to solve".