Delivering useful results from quantum computing hardware currently requires laborious, imprecise, and manual tuning of all the various ‘control knobs’ that govern quantum processing unit (QPU) performance.
This partnership looks to address this by integrating Q-CTRL's autonomous calibration solution, Boulder Opal Scale Up, with QuantWare’s QPUs, enabling customer to achieve push-button tune-up of their on-premises quantum computers.
This new partnership will provide QuantWare’s customers with:
Accelerated System Development: Customers will be able to drastically accelerate the construction and deployment of their quantum systems towards error correction. Q-CTRL's autonomous calibration solution streamlines the setup process, reducing test times from days to hours.
Maximised QPU Performance: Leveraging Q-CTRL's Boulder Opal Scale Up solution empowers any user to achieve optimal performance from QuantWare QPUs with minimal effort. This ensures that customers can unlock the full potential of QuantWare's QPUs, including the new Contralto-A Quantum Error Correction QPU recently launched in early access.
"As we rapidly scale our devices thanks to VIO, tuning up systems built with our QPUs needs to be automated," said Matthijs Rijlaarsdam, CEO of QuantWare. "We are excited not just to use Q-CTRL's software internally, but especially to help our customers scale their systems faster and with confidence. Boulder Opal with Contralto-A is an extremely powerful combination that will greatly expand the capabilities of our customers."
Q-CTRL’s Boulder Opal Scale Up solution combines PhD-level human intelligence with AI-driven automation to overcome the quantum industry bottleneck. Boulder Opal Scale Up provides an expert-configured and fully autonomous software solution to deliver fast, repeatable, and robust QPU characterisation and calibration.
It will also help to empower quantum hardware manufacturers to create more efficient and scalable products through intelligently autonomous routines that boost operational efficiency while democratising access to consistently high-performing quantum devices.
"It's our mission to make quantum technology useful for as many teams as possible," said Michael J. Biercuk, CEO and Founder of Q-CTRL. "We're excited to bring our expertise in physics-informed AI and performance management to the products of QuantWare and to all of their customers, so together we can have the biggest possible impact on delivering quantum advantage to the community."
This partnership is being described as an important step towards achieving utility-scale quantum computers. Efficiently tuning large QPUs will be critical for many customers, especially as they use processing units powered by VIO to scale their systems.
