Quantinuum

Happy National Intern Day! Today, at Quantinuum, we celebrate the amazing achievements our 2024 interns have accomplished. Whether they were working on projects with our hardware teams, quantum software teams, or business teams, our interns showed dedication to learning from our experts and showcasing their knowledge. We are dedicated to supporting the future of the #quantum workforce! If you’re interested in internship opportunities with Quantinuum, stay tuned as we will be opening up applications for 2025 internships soon: https://lnkd.in/dP5Am_Fm

Yesterday, in Singapore, we completed a MoU that is a landmark for the quantum computing industry as a whole and which lays out ambitious milestones that encapsulate the reasons why quantum computing is a global focus for nation states and corporations.   More specifically, Quantinuum, A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research, the National Quantum Office (NQO), National University of Singapore (NUS), National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on quantum computing use cases, with a focus on computational biology. This focus on a topic that is critical to the future well being of humanity will propel Singapore into a leading position in terms of commitment and endeavour in quantum computing and is a continuation of a long standing national initiative. Read the announcement: https://lnkd.in/dgYcKXYn Here are the highlights: • Singapore will gain access to our advanced H-Series, including the powerful Helios quantum computers. • Together, we will drive advancements in computational biology, drug discovery and personalized medicine. • We will develop joint R&D initiatives focused on hybrid computing solutions and strategic roadmaps for long-term advancements. • We will work together on training and outreach programs, such as seminars and workshops, to nurture quantum talent and grow Singapore’s quantum community. Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Centre for Quantum Technologies Duke-NUS Medical School

Nash Palaniswamy, our Chief Commercial Officer, will be sharing his insights and expertise at not one, but three sessions at #Q2BTokyo! Join Nash at the below sessions to hear his insights on the latest advancements in quantum computing and its transformative potential across industries. 🗓️ July 24th at 9:15am: Panel on “Frontline Quantum: Recent Advances and Insights” 🗓️ July 24th at 12:15pm: Session on “Charting Your Path to Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing with Quantinuum” 🗓️ July 25th at 2:20pm: Session on “Accelerating Scientific Discover Through Reliable Quantum Computing” with Microsoft Further details on Q2B Tokyo: https://lnkd.in/gwZwMEVa

Following the recent global IT outage, business commentators are considering lessons to learn for a far larger threat to cyber-safety: quantum computing.   Many recognize quantum computing as a potential future cyber threat, but we should see it as an ally. Quantum computing can be put to many uses, and multiple groups are already harnessing its power to strengthen popular cryptographic systems.   Quantum Origin is the leading example of this positive change, enabling the cybersecurity industry to embed unprecedented additional strength into devices and platforms adopting post-quantum cryptography.   Discover more about Quantum Origin customers and use cases on our website: https://lnkd.in/gKcjcUmX https://lnkd.in/eE97M_xy

At Q2B Tokyo, Quantinuum and Microsoft Azure will take the stage to discuss "Accelerating Scientific Discovery through Reliable Quantum Computing” Earlier this year, Microsoft and Quantinuum achieved a groundbreaking advancement in quantum computing with the production of the most reliable logical qubits to date. Leveraging Microsoft’s qubit-virtualization system and Quantinuum’s System Model H2, this collaboration has slashed logical circuit error rates by 800 times compared to physical circuit error rates. Such strides are pivotal in propelling us toward large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. During this session on July 25th at 2:20 PM, Naoyuki Isogai, Microsoft Azure’s Global Black Belt Director – HPC/AI, and Nash Palaniswamy, Quantinuum’s Chief Commercial Officer, will discuss the technological innovations driving applications in chemistry and explore how quantum computing intersects with classical technology to enhance efficiency. #QuantumComputing #Q2BTokyo #Microsoft #Quantinuum 

The imminent standardization of post-quantum cryptography (#PQC) algorithms is a pivotal milestone and organizations must get PQC-ready. Join Quantinuum’s Nicholas Van Duyn for a discussion with cybersecurity experts from DigiCert, Thales, and IBM on the critical business and technical considerations needed to transition smoothly to a quantum-ready state.  Register here: https://lnkd.in/en5GE3ej

Our new partnership with Carahsoft allows federal, state and local, and educational institutes to strengthen cybersecurity with Quantum Origin. Governmental data is among the most sensitive information on the planet. By partnering with Carahsoft, Quantinuum can now offer cutting-edge quantum cybersecurity technologies to protect the data that matters most. Proven quantum randomness is an important component of a holistic quantum-safe strategy. We look forward to working with agencies that are targeting compliance with NSM 8, NSM 10, and the Quantum Cybersecurity Bill for quantum-safe architecture. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ejPBUibk #cybersecurity #pqc #qrng #quantum

Quantum computing promises to help us understand chemistry in its purest form – ultimately leading to a better understanding of everything from drug development to superconductors. But before we can do any of that, researchers in computational quantum chemistry have to create the basic building blocks for understanding a chemical system: they must prepare the initial state of a system, apply various effects to the system through time, then measure the resulting output. The first problem, called “state preparation” is a tricky one – many approaches exist, but they all have difficulties. Recently, researchers at Quantinuum elucidated a very appealing approach to state preparation using a clever averaging approach. A nice aspect of this approach is that it has guaranteed “convergence” – ultimately this means that, unlike other approaches, it works all the time. This new approach has also been shown to be possible on near-term quantum computers: it does not require too many gates or computational time, and it scales well with the system size. This algorithm is designed with Quantinuum’s world-leading hardware in mind, as it requires all-to-all connectivity. Combined with our industry-leading gate fidelities, this new approach is opening the door to many fascinating applications in chemistry, physics, and beyond. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e83i94iC Read the scientific paper here: https://lnkd.in/ehSsdviY Access our hardware here: https://lnkd.in/eV6b6nWw

This week, Quantinuum's chief scientist Bob Coecke is giving a talk at the UCL Computer Science Festival of Engineering, organized by Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, on "From quantum in high school to interpretable quantum AI". Bob and our Compositional Intelligence team are exploring the intersection of explainable AI with interpretable models, and natural language processing on quantum computers. Their work includes a current collaboration with UCL and the BBC to investigate the potential of using QNLP for content discovery and retrieval within the vast BBC archives. This is a free public event and virtual tickets are available via the link below:

Scaling up quantum computers from dozens of qubits to millions is one of the most complex challenges across our industry. We’ve just published a paper that can have a huge impact on how quickly and efficiently we scale towards industrial relevance, via something called “safe lattice surgery” on high-rate codes.    Read the scientific paper by here: https://lnkd.in/eZUBTm7d   To run something like Shor’s famous algorithm, scientists have estimated that one would need thousands of “logical” (error corrected) qubits, which are each made from multiple physical qubits. There are almost infinite ways to construct logical qubits out of physical qubits, but some approaches have huge implications for how quickly #quantum computers can scale up. For example, one approach might take 20 physical qubits to build one logical qubit, while another might take only 5 physical qubits per logical qubit. When your scheme takes fewer physical qubits per logical qubit, scientists call it a “high-rate code”, and it is these “codes” that we are interested in developing. Of course, there’s no free lunch - we typically need extra qubits to do computation, which add an additional overhead in terms of physical qubit number.     Once you have logical qubits, to perform “universal” computation, you also need things called “magic state distillation” and “lattice surgery” (there are other options, but for this post we will focus on this). Until our latest paper, scientists had only figured out how to do lattice surgery on “low-rate” codes (which we want to move past), or on high-rate codes but very inefficiently (using many ancillary qubits). In our new paper, we’ve developed an algorithmic method for performing safe lattice surgery on high-rate codes, efficiently.    Our leadership in quantum error correction (QEC) would be impossible without our world-record commercial hardware fidelity. Quantum hardware that doesn’t have fidelity at our level will not be able to benefit from QEC in any meaningful way – until your hardware has good enough fidelity, QEC operations will only add noise. Our world-class fidelity, combined with our flexible QCCD architecture offering all-to-all connectivity, mid-circuit measurement, and feed-forward means that our team has an ideal playground for exploring the #QEC landscape, as we have proven over and over again.   Explore our publications: https://lnkd.in/eVna3sgX   Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eZUBTm7d   Access the H-Series hardware here: https://lnkd.in/eV6b6nWw