There are multiple ways of building a quantum computer, from superconducting and photonics to topological and ion trap, many backed by such big names

ColdQuanta Uses Cold Atoms To Build A Quantum Computing

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2021-07-20 13:30:06

There are multiple ways of building a quantum computer, from superconducting and photonics to topological and ion trap, many backed by such big names as IBM, Google, Microsoft and Honeywell. However, ColdQuanta is betting that a modality that its founders and engineers have been working on for 15 years – cold atom – will establish itself as a method that will establish itself as quantum computing moves from a developing technology to an established global market.

“When you think about quantum computing, you read a lot about the superconducting,” Paul Lipman, who joined ColdQuanta in April as its chief commercial officer and is now its president of quantum computing, tells The Next Platform. “Cold atom is kind of the newest of the quantum computing modalities, but we believe the one with the greatest ultimate promise for scalability.”

We detailed the technology behind the cold atom modality earlier this year, making the case that the Boulder, Colorado-based company will be one to watch in the coming years as the methods and vendors around quantum computing continue to shake out. ColdQuanta this month announced that it had developed a 100-qubit {quantum bit} computer – codenamed “Hilbert” (shown in the feature image above) – that is based on its cold atom technology and will be available later this year. The gate-based computer initially will be available via the cloud on ColdQuanta’s own platform and could become available on other public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud starting in early 2022, according to Lipman.

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