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IQM Spark Quantum Processor. Credit: IQM The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) has acquired a 5-qubit quantum system, the IQM Spark, from IQM Quantum Computers. The system is set to go into operation in July 2024 as part of Jülich’s JUNIQ quantum computing infrastructure and will be connected to JSC’s classical supercomputers. This will allow researchers to explore how quantum computers can accelerate calculations on classical supercomputers. The IQM Spark, costing less than €1 million, is designed for basic experiments and applications in teaching at universities and research institutes. It generates quantum bits, or qubits, using superconducting electronic resonant circuits, which must [...]

Figure Comparing Bit Flips, Phase Flips, and Erasure Errors. Credit: AWS There are a lot of different quantum error corrections being researched right now and Amazon has just published a paper on Physical Review X that shows an additional one they are researching. This actually came a little bit as a surprise to us because they had previously published papers on some completely different error correction algorithms including one on Schrödinger-cat qubits and another on concatenating the surface code with Gottesman, Kitaev, and Preskill (GKP) qubits. As explained to us by Dr. Oskar Painter, Head of Quantum Hardware at Amazon Web [...]

Vescent Photonics has named Russ Fein as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Board Member. As a Managing Director of investment bank Corporate Fuel Partners, Russ played a key role in arranging Vescent's recent $5 million seed financing. Corporate Fuel takes an active role in their investments and Russ will be working with Vescent as part of this strategy. He has over 30 years of experience in a variety of financial firms as well as serving as a Board Member and has experience with a wide variety of technical based industries including biopharma, laser micromachining, software, and others. A LinkedIn posting [...]

Today’s quantum platforms need to radically scale-up to deliver on quantum computing’s true commercial promise. Innovation to meet this challenge continues to throw focus onto new parts of the quantum stack. Quantum networking technology is closely connected to modularity and so much more central to this quest than is commonly realized. Forward thinking quantum players, ecosystem builders and investors are already charting their strategies to maximize their share of this prize. The best of today’s early quantum systems are already capable of notional ‘beyond classical’ calculations. This starts to be possible with a high fidelity 50-60 qubit module where environmental noise [...]

Alice & Bob, a quantum hardware manufacturer, is collaborating with NVIDIA to integrate cat qubits into future datacenters. Leveraging NVIDIA technology such as DGX Quantum and CUDA Quantum, this integration aims to advance quantum computing alongside classical computing methods. DGX Quantum combines NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips and the Quantum Machines’ OPX+ control system to provide quantum error correction, calibration, control and processing of hybrid algorithms at high performance. Cat qubits, known for their passive error correction, represent a promising platform for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Through partnerships and innovations like DYNAMIQS, an open-source quantum systems simulation library that is accelerated by GPUs and developed by [...]

One thing to understand is that quantum computing may not be the only game in town when one is looking for faster alternatives to classical computers. Recently, two companies have made introductions within the past week of physics based computational devices targeted at specific applications they they contend will be even more effect at solving problems than either classical or quantum computing. The first is a company based in Israel called LightSolver that has just introduced its LPU100 system that uses 100 lasers to solve tough optimization problems. They are now providing early access to a cloud based system accessible via [...]