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We are partnering with STFC Hartree Centre, one of Europe’s largest supercomputing centers dedicated to industry engagement, to advance quantum innovation and development in the UK. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gDMgUQef Through this partnership, the Hartree Centre will have unparalleled access to Quantinuum H-Series quantum computers, via both the cloud and on-premise. These systems, which promise the greatest fidelity in quantum computing, include the highest-performing quantum computer available today and the only quantum processor with a proven path to commercial scale. UK industrial and scientific users are further enabled to explore quantum advantage and drive advancements in fields like quantum chemistry, computational biology, quantum artificial intelligence and quantum-augmented cybersecurity.

Congratulations to our Chief Scientist Prof Bob Coecke on receiving the LICS Test of Time Award! The Logic In Computer Science (IEEE-LICS) symposium awards this every year to a paper from 20 years ago that has had the greatest lasting impact. This is the first time that the test-of-time award has been given to a paper in #quantumcomputing. This year, they selected Prof Coecke and Prof Samson Abramsky’s 2004 paper “A categorical semantics of quantum protocols”, an iconic paper that is at the root of work we have done in ZX-calculus, Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP), quantum causality, and even cognition. It has had a broad impact, leading to the use of ZX-like graphical calculus and diagrammatic reasoning in many disciplines, from computer science to physics. ZX-calculus has flourished and is widely used in quantum computing today, for instance in quantum circuit optimization (including in our opensource developer toolkit TKET) and lattice surgery. It is described by many as having particularly useful characteristics for studying fundamental science. A paper co-authored by Peter Shor observed there’s a growing interest in ZX-calculus because it “can explicitly visualize properties of circuits and entanglement in an intuitive manner”. Recently, Carlo Rovelli expressed his hope that such “powerful conceptual and technical tools” can be used to translate quantum gravity problems into quantum computing problems. To quote the LICS committee: “This extraordinary paper has had a major impact on the development of quantum computation in the logic and computation community. It has led to new algebraic and diagrammatic ways of thinking about quantum computation and has stimulated research on quantum programming languages, calculi for reasoning about quantum computation, and lately even error correction.” We are immensely proud to have luminaries like Prof Coecke working with us as we work to shape the future. Congratulations Bob Coecke! LICS Test of Time Award: https://lnkd.in/e-jUMnNt Read “A categorical semantics of quantum protocols”: https://lnkd.in/eEKWPvi2  An introduction to ZX-calculus, tutorials and Python tools: https://zxcalculus.com/ #NaturalLanguageProcessing

Colorado is leading the world in #quantum technology and with new investments in the Elevate Quantum Tech Hub, the Mountain West’s quantum ecosystem is set to keep growing. We are proud to be a part of this community! With Colorado as one of the homes of our industry-leading H-Series quantum computers, Quantinuum is committed to innovation, excellence, and driving advancements in #quantumcomputing and its potential applications every day. Check out this Denver7 (KMGH-TV) article for more details: https://lnkd.in/gVeAZ4Zv

Congratulations to all the members of Elevate Quantum! The consortium was just awarded $127 million in federal and state funding to secure US leadership in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming for the most important technology of the 21st century! Over the next decade, these programs will support 10,000+ new jobs, skills training for 30,000 workers, and extensive infrastructure projects throughout the #MountainWest region. Quantinuum is a proud member of the Mountain West quantum community and the #ElevateQuantum Consortium, which includes Atom Computing, FormFactor Inc., Infleqtion, University of Colorado, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory and others.

Quantinuum and University of Colorado Boulder just made quantum error correction easier. Read more in this blogpost: https://lnkd.in/eeBpediv We’ve recently published a scientific paper describing the implementation of a never-before-used quantum error correction code to create four logical qubits and hit the “break even.”       This is an important milestone in the quest to build quantum computers that can overcome errors and deliver accurate results – which is what today’s supercomputers do.  It also builds on several recent quantum error corrections advancements in recent months by the Quantinuum team, such as our joint announcement with Microsoft where we showed error rates reduced by a factor of 800x thanks to Microsoft’s innovative error correction scheme.     This collaboration is yet another example of how Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming are leading the world in #quantumcomputing.  We are proud to be part of the robust #quantum ecosystem in #Colorado, #NewMexico and #Wyoming.  Read the scientific paper here: https://lnkd.in/e9KSmKXJ Access our H-Series hardware here: https://lnkd.in/eV6b6nWw

“The tipping point is NOW because we have quantum computers that can’t be simulated in certain areas.”    That was the assessment of Ilyas Khan, KSG, founder, vice-chair and chief product officer of Quantinuum, at The Economist’s Commercialising Quantum event earlier this month in London.    Ilyas was speaking with Tom Standage, deputy editor at The Economist, and Robert Bruckmeier, general manager for computing and AI, at the BMW Group, during the session, “The Industrialisation of Quantum: Getting Ready to Benefit Business and Society”.    The conversation covered a lot of ground in a short time, from BMW’s longstanding commitment to exploring quantum computing to Quantinuum’s many recent industry-leading performance achievements with its H-Series systems.      Tom asked if BMW is seeing useful results now from its work with Quantinuum, and Robert said they are gaining insights that would have been difficult to achieve with classical computing alone.     Robert described how BMW’s teams are conducting research in quantum chemistry, including hydrogen fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries – simulations in aerodynamics that are challenging for today’s HPCs as well as multi-physics simulations to enhance automotive design.    To view the session, please go here: https://lnkd.in/eYeHNC9e

With the #Olympics kicking off in less than a month, we’re reflecting on the #BIGQuantumHackathon in Paris, where teams tackled applications of quantum computing in the sports industry. Quantinuum was honored to work with industry sponsor Fédération Française de Tennis for analysis of ‘real time quantum-powered object detection to improve the judging systems of tennis competitions’. This was just one of many interesting applications analyzed by developers at the event. While these use cases may not benefit from #quantum advantage, to realize the full potential of quantum computing, it’s important that organizations across industries develop ideas for real-world applications in parallel to technological advancements. Thank you to QuantX, aqora, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), GENCI, HQI France, Le Lab Quantique, Les Maisons du Quantique, and others for hosting the #BQH2024 hackathon.

Q2B Tokyo is one month away! We are proud to jointly sponsor this year’s conference with our partner Mitsui & Co., Ltd.. Our partnership was formed with the goal of delivering quantum computing use cases that will drive significant transformation and innovation across industries in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. Meet our experts at booth D1 to discover how you can benefit from our quantum computing solutions today. Join our Chief Commercial Officer, Nash Palaniswamy, for a presentation on July 24th to learn about the evolution of our full stack technology and what’s to come.

Our team is tackling the “interpretability problem”, helping us build safer AI. While it is well known that current widely used AI models lack interpretability, meaning we can’t understand why they made the decisions they do, we have until recently lacked a rigorous way of defining and assessing interpretability in machine learning. This is proving to be critical for the ethical deployment of AI in fields like medicine or finance. A small team within Quantinuum led by Stephen Clark, and including Ilyas Khan, KSG, has made a meaningful step forward in solving this problem, with the publication of a new paper that shows us how to properly and accurately determine the interpretability of various #AI models. Read more on our blog: https://lnkd.in/gqs2pfWb The scientific paper is available here: https://lnkd.in/g7Gp4XF2 Access our hardware: https://lnkd.in/eV6b6nWw