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.
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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.