In March 2022, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science unveiled Israel’s first quantum computer, a system based on ion-trap technology. The computer, named WeizQC, was one of fewer than 10 ion-trap quantum computers worldwide and one of approximately 30 quantum computers globally at the time, as reported by NoCamels.
The project was led by Prof. Roee Ozeri’s lab in the Department of Physics of Complex Systems. Dr. Tom Manovitz and research student Yotam Shapira detailed their work in the peer-reviewed journal PRX Quantum. The name WeizQC was a tribute to WEIZAC, Israel’s first classical computer, dedicated at the Weizmann Institute in 1955.