Domestically-produced single-core high-capacity dilution refrigeration machine successfully launched off the production line.

date
24/06/2026
On June 24th, under the guidance of the Quantum Information and Quantum Technology Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the first domestically produced dilution refrigerator, ez-Q F1500, completed its engineering development and officially came offline by the Quantum Technology Co., Ltd., laying the foundation for the subsequent development of a fault-tolerant superconducting quantum computer with thousands of qubits in China. It is understood that the current commercially available single-core dilution refrigerators have a cooling capacity in the range of 400 to 800 microwatts, which is insufficient to meet the demands of a thousand-qubit superconducting quantum computer. The international practice is to parallel at least two core units, but this significantly increases the system complexity and poses a challenge to long-term stable operation. Therefore, the Quantum Information and Quantum Technology Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences completed the prototype development of a "High-Power Single Dilution Refrigerator Unit" by 2025, achieving a technical breakthrough of a cooling capacity of 40 microwatts at 20 millikelvin. Building on this achievement, Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. further collaborated to develop the ez-Q F1500, which can achieve a cooling capacity of 1700 microwatts at 100 millikelvin with just a single core, a cooling capacity of 48 microwatts at 20 millikelvin, and a lowest temperature limit of approximately 5.42 millikelvin, bringing the single-core cooling capacity to an international leading level.