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Quantware QPUs Integrate Q-CTRL’s Autonomous Calibration

Q-CTRL, a pioneer in quantum infrastructure software, and QuantWare, a leading quantum hardware supplier and VIO QPU scaling technology developer, announced a major alliance. This partnership will provide QuantWare's clients with an autonomous calibration solution, overcoming a major barrier to large-scale quantum computer deployment.

Current quantum computing hardware users struggle with the tedious, imprecise, and manual changing of QPU control parameters. Manual processing may take days, according to the notice.

Combining QuantWare's QPUs with Q-CTRL's Boulder Opal Scale Up tool will simplify this approach.

The cooperation allows QuantWare customers to “push-button tuneup” their on-premises quantum computers. This setup simplification should reduce test times from days to hours. Plug-and-play solutions enable seamless integration on-premises and in the cloud, expediting quantum error correction development by eliminating manual tuning.

Boosting System Development and Performance

QuantWare clients benefit from improved QPU performance and faster system development. Customers can create and install quantum error correcting systems faster.

Boulder Opal Scale Up lets users easily maximise QuantWare QPU performance, maximising hardware utilisation.

Contralto-A: Collaboration's Main Winner

Integration benefits QuantWare's cutting-edge QPUs like the early-access Contralto-A Quantum Error Correction QPU. Contralto-A is the next step towards quantum error-correcting systems. It was designed for distance-3 surface codes by quantum error-correction experts. This QPU uses Purcell filters and tunable couplers for high-fidelity operations.

Up to 17 premium transmon qubits are connected by 24 adjustable couplers. The Hamiltonian is optimised for Quantum Error Correction, and the qubits are “Ninja star”-arranged.

Read about quantum entanglement entropy and challenges.

Three Purcell-filtered readout, driving, and flux lines are on each qubit.

Contralto-A comes fully packaged and compatible with Ardent connectors. Options include magnetic shielding. A DC source, AWG for flux biassing for each qubit, tunable coupler, RF AWG for driving, and RF readout module for qubit readout are needed for optimal performance. With a Crescendo-S TWPA, all three feedlines read best.

QuantWare's hardware and algorithm experts teach and assist the Contralto-A for real-world applications and utility-scale development. By providing hardware-level access at every stack tier, it allows system configuration freedom and control due to its Quantum Open Architecture conformance. Contralto-A is pre-orderable for Early Access partners and will be released later this year.

VIO drives scaling

QuantWare's VIO technology scaling is also promoted by the agreement. QuantWare's VIO scaling technology makes upgrading to larger QPUs economical. It unlocks multimillion-qubit processors. As they scale systems using VIO-powered processing units, many clients will need to tune massive QPUs efficiently. Q-CTRL may enable utility-scale quantum computers with over a million qubits.

Due to VIO, devices scale quickly, hence QuantWare stressed the importance of automatic tuneup. Boulder Opal and Contralto-A work together to dramatically boost client capabilities.

Foundry Services now offers VIO to help companies make over 100 qubit devices.

Boulder Opal Scale Up: AI-Driven Automation

Q-CTRL's Boulder Opal Scale Up solution powers self-calibration. Fusing AI-driven automation with PhD-level human intelligence breaks the quantum industry bottleneck. Boulder Opal Scale Up offers a fully autonomous software solution for quick, reliable, and repeatable QPU characterisation and calibration based on the company's experience using physics-informed AI to optimise QPU performance. Q-CTR wants quantum technology to benefit as many teams as possible. They were excited to apply their skills to QuantWare's products and clientele.

This partnership was crucial to developing utility-scale quantum computers. QuantWare's QPUs simplify the user experience so customers can focus on their goals instead of manual tuning.

In addition to the Contralto-A, QuantWare offers the Contralto-D, a 21-qubit fixed coupler QPU, and the Soprano-D, a 5-qubit one. Their amplifiers include the Crescendo-S and Crescendo-E TWPAs and the VIO-176-driven TENOR-D QPU. Contralto-A works with QuantrolOx's Quantum EDGE automated tune-up software.

QuantWare and Q-CTRL have teamed to simplify quantum hardware operation to enable researchers and developers accelerate quantum error correction and large-scale, utility-scale quantum computing.

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Dutch startup QuantWare seeks to fast-track quantum computing

Big tech companies aren’t sleeping on quantum chips: Amazon Web Services introduced Ocelot; Microsoft, Majorana; and Google, Willow. But although all of these can be considered to be breakthroughs, quantum startups often focus on more practical advancements — and they are making progress. Founded in 2020, Dutch startup QuantWare is one of these, which claims […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights…

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Quantware 推出世界首個商用超導量子處理器

荷蘭新創公司 QuantWare 推出全球首個用於 QPU 量子電腦的商用超導處理器，這項成果或將有助於加快量子計算速度。Continue reading

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Quantware Launches the World's First Commercially Available Superconducting Quantum Processors, Accelerating the Advent of the Quantum Computer. https://ift.tt/3hEmGVw

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QuantWare raises €6M to scale its quantum processor business

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QuantWare raises €6M to scale its quantum processor business

QuantWare, the Dutch startup that builds quantum processors for research and commercial usage, today announced that it has raised a €6 million seed round (that’s about $6.33 million) led by Dutch deep tech investor Forward.One, with participation from QDNL Participations and Graduate Entrepreneur, among others. The company says it will use this new funding to scale up its team and support the…

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Quantum Chip Startup Raises $6.3 Million in Fresh Funds

Dutch startup QuantWare has just raised 6 million euros (around $6.3 million). The chip-making company wants to become the “Intel of quantum computing.” Check out the 9-slide redacted pitch deck it used to raise the funds. A Dutch startup that wants to become the “Intel of quantum computing” just raised 6 million euros (around $6.3 million) in fresh funds. QuantWare, founded in 2020 based on…

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QuantWare raises €6M to scale its quantum processor business

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So far, quantum computing has been a prerogative of large and well-funded research institutes and commercial companies with deep pockets. But every new technology becomes democratized sooner or later and it looks like this is about to happen to quantum computing as QuantWare, a startup from the Netherlands starts to offers its Soprano quantum processing unit (QPU) to all interested…

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Startup hopes the world is ready to buy quantum processors

Early in its history, computing was dominated by time-sharing systems. These were powerful machines (for their time at least) that multiple users connected in to in order to perform computing tasks. To an extent, quantum computing has repeated this history, with companies like Honeywell, IBM, and Rigetti making their machines available to users via a cloud service. Companies pay based on the amount of time they spend executing algorithms on the hardware.

For the most part, time-sharing works out well, saving companies the expenses involved in maintaining the machine and its associated hardware, which often includes a system that chills the processor down to nearly absolute zero. But there are a number of situations—companies developing support hardware, academic researchers—when access to the actual hardware could be essential.

The fact that companies weren't shipping out processors suggested that this market hasn't been big enough to make it worthwhile. But a startup from the Netherlands is now betting that the size of the market is about to change. On Monday, a company called QuantWare announced that it will start selling quantum processors based on transmons, superconducting loops of wire that form the basis of similar machines used by Google, IBM, and Rigetti.

What’s on offer?

Transmon-based qubits have been popular because they're compatible with the standard fabrication techniques used for more traditional processors; they can also be controlled using microwave-frequency signals. Their big downside is that they only operate at temperatures that require liquid helium and specialized refrigeration hardware. These requirements complicate the hardware needed to exchange signals between the very cold processor and the room-temperature hardware that controls it.

Startup companies like D-Wave and Rigetti have set up their own fabrication facilities, but Matthijs Rijlaarsdam, one of QuantWare's founders, told Ars that the company is taking advantage of an association with TU Delft, the host of the Kavli Nanolab. This lets QuantWare do the fabrication without investing in its own facility. Rijlaarsdam said this is unlikely to be a limiting factor, since he expects that the total market isn't likely to exceed tens of thousands of processors over the entirety of the next decade. Production volumes don't have to scale dramatically.

The initial processor the company will be shipping only contains five transmon qubits. Although this is well below anything on offer via one of the cloud services, Rijlaarsdam told Ars that the fidelities of each qubit will 99.9 percent, which should keep the error rate manageable. For now, he argued that a low qubit count should be sufficient based on the types of customers QuantWare expects to have.

These would include universities interested in studying new ways to use the processor as well as companies that might be interested in developing support hardware that's needed to turn a chip full of transmons into a functional system. Intel, for example, has been developing control chips for transmon hardware that can tolerate the low temperatures required (although the semiconductor giant can also easily make its own transmons as needed).

That last aspect—developing a chip around which others could build a platform—features heavily in the press release that QuantWare shared with Ars. It makes frequent mention of the Intel 4004, an early general-purpose microprocessor that found a home in a variety of computers.

Scaling and specialization

Rijlaarsdam told Ars that he expected the company to increase its qubit count by two- to fourfold each year for the next few years. That's good progress, but it will still leave the company well behind the roadmap of competitors like IBM for the foreseeable future.

That's somewhat awkward, given that Rijlaarsdam also suggested that quantum computing will reach what he termed "an inflection point" before 2025. Once this point is reached, quantum computers will regularly be able to provide answers to things that can't be practically calculated using classical hardware. Once that point is reached, "The market will be a multibillion-dollar market," Rijlaarsdam told Ars. "It will also grow rapidly, as the availability of large quantum computers will accelerate application development."

But if that point is reached before 2025, then it will arrive at a time when QuantWare's qubit count is suited for the current market, which he accurately described as "an R&D market." QuantWare's solution to the awkward timing will be to develop quantum processors specialized for specific algorithms, which can presumably be done using fewer qubits. But those aren't available for the company's launch.

Obviously, it's debatable whether there's a large market of companies anxiously awaiting the opportunity to install liquid helium dilution refrigerators in their office/lab/garage. But the reality is that there almost certainly is at least some market for an off-the-shelf quantum processor—at least partly composed of other quantum computing startups.

That's not quite equivalent to the situation that greeted the Intel 4004. But it still may be significant in that we seem to be getting close to the point when some of our quantum-computing coverage will need to move out of the science section and over to IT, marking a clear shift in how the field is developing.

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QuantWare raises €6M to scale its quantum processor business

QuantWare, the Dutch startup that builds quantum processors for research and commercial usage, today announced that it has raised a €6 million seed round (that’s about $6.33 million) led by Dutch deep tech investor Forward.One, with participation from QDNL Participations and Graduate Entrepreneur, among others. The company says it will use this new funding to scale up its team and support the…