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Quantum computing has the potential to address complex challenges in areas like drug development, battery technology and climate modeling. It will also enhance sensing capabilities, supporting applications in medical imaging and enabling physically secure quantum communication.

Quantum devices can already be fabricated in large quantities using state-of-the-art thin-film deposition technology. However, developing and operating these devices requires extreme environments at temperatures well below 1 K (–272 °C). Dilution refrigerators usually generate these sub-kelvin temperatures using helium-3. This method is challenging and requires experienced personnel and complex infrastructure. As a result, dilution refrigeration leads to tedious low-temperature investigations and slow feedback on device properties and quality. This slows down quantum R&D.

The scarcity of helium-3 adds further risk. Helium-3 is one of the rarest resources on Earth and is produced in small volumes from radioactive tritium decay in mostly military facilities in North America and Russia.

Its extreme rarity and strategic relevance have even prompted considerations to mine helium-3 on the Moon, where it is embedded in the lunar rock. This limited availability threatens the sovereign use of quantum technologies and will hinder their advancement and adoption at industrial scale.

Because we believe that cryogenics should accelerate quantum technologies, not hold it back, we have dedicated ourselves to setting a new standard based on a fundamentally different cooling technology used in our cryostats. To reach sub-kelvin temperatures, we cool with paramagnetic solids in a process known as Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigeration (ADR).

ADR is well established, but we are the first company to develop and commercialize it in a continuous configuration (cADR). With this, we provide the only alternative to helium-3-based cooling. Our solutions run independent of this scarce supply, for future-proof, sovereign operations. Magnetic cooling has several advantages. Our cutting-edge cooling solutions are easy-to-use – you don’t need to hire a low-temperature physicist to run your cryostat. The systems are modular and fast, resulting in time, energy and cost savings.