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Making Quantum Errors Visible: A New Approach to Reliable Quantum ComputingTechnical Blog

Making Quantum Errors Visible: A New Approach to Reliable Quantum Computing

TECHNICAL BLOG Making Quantum Errors Visible: A New Approach to Reliable Quantum Computing New research from OQC helps make errors visible: OQC’s approach turns normally “silent” errors into detectable events…
July 1, 2026
OQC Research for 3D Integrated Embedded Filters for Superconducting Quantum CircuitsTechnical Blog

OQC Research for 3D Integrated Embedded Filters for Superconducting Quantum Circuits

Purcell filtering has become a widespread tool used to protect qubits from unwanted radiative relaxation through readout channels and to enable fast readout.
March 19, 2026
Close up of OQC Lucy
Bringing Quantum to Real Payments: A New Approach to Fraud DetectionCase Studies

Bringing Quantum to Real Payments: A New Approach to Fraud Detection

How OQC and Mastercard Are Advancing Quantum for Financial Services.
March 10, 2026
Securing the Future: How OQC and QinetiQ Are Advancing Quantum for Defence and Security, A New Frontier in Defence TechnologyCase Studies

Securing the Future: How OQC and QinetiQ Are Advancing Quantum for Defence and Security, A New Frontier in Defence Technology

How OQC and QinetiQ Are Advancing Quantum for Defence and Security, A New Frontier in Defence Technology.
February 10, 2026
Developments in superconducting erasure qubits for hardware-efficient quantum error correctionPublications

Developments in superconducting erasure qubits for hardware-efficient quantum error correction

Quantum computers are inherently noisy, and a crucial challenge for achieving large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing is to implement quantum error correction.
January 21, 2026
Innovation Meets Infrastructure: The OQC Quantum-AI Data CentreCase Studies

Innovation Meets Infrastructure: The OQC Quantum-AI Data Centre

At OQC, we’re building the infrastructure for a new computational era. One where quantum and AI technologies don’t just coexist, they co-design, co-optimise, and co-evolve.
September 16, 2025
Error-detected coherence metrology of a dual-rail encoded fixed-frequency multimode superconducting qubitPreprints

Error-detected coherence metrology of a dual-rail encoded fixed-frequency multimode superconducting qubit

OQC's dual-rail dimon technology enables hardware-efficient quantum error correction and forms the basis of OQC's roadmap to 2035.
June 19, 2025
A year of QMIO: a tightly integrated hybrid HPCQC systemCase Studies

A year of QMIO: a tightly integrated hybrid HPCQC system

OQC celebrates one year of QMIO’s operations at Spain's Galician Supercomputing Centre: a hybrid system that integrates quantum computing with traditional HPC.
May 28, 2025
Thermal capacity mapping of cryogenic platforms for quantum computersPreprints

Thermal capacity mapping of cryogenic platforms for quantum computers

This research demonstrates a novel approach to understanding cryogenic platforms and how the IO infrastructure affects the platform performance, referred to as platform capacity mapping.
March 13, 2025
Tuning of Josephson junctions – the effects of depinning physicsPreprints

Tuning of Josephson junctions – the effects of depinning physics

This research explores ways to model post-manufacture tuning of Josephson junction parameters, investigating how junction properties change during these tuning processes.
February 26, 2025
Analysing variations in Josephson junction barriers using a combined approachPreprints

Analysing variations in Josephson junction barriers using a combined approach

In our recent research, we consider multiple techniques to understand the make-up of Josephson junctions, and to secure robust feedback metrics which support and inform the optimisation of our precise…
February 19, 2025
Analysis of Josephson junction barrier variation — a combined STEM, breakdown and Monte-Carlo approachPublications

Analysis of Josephson junction barrier variation — a combined STEM, breakdown and Monte-Carlo approach

Understanding the make-up of Josephson junctions to secure robust feedback metrics which support and inform the optimisation of our precise manufacturing techniques. 
February 18, 2025
Paving the way for millions of quantum operationsTechnical Blog

Paving the way for millions of quantum operations

Reaching the MegaQuop era of quantum computing is a key milestone on the road to useful applications. It is the first stage of increasingly powerful quantum devices and will have…
February 6, 2025
Energy efficiency and quantum computeGuides

Energy efficiency and quantum compute

Quantum computing could positively impact the energy efficiency of compute. In our new resource, we outline the discussion on energy efficiency and quantum compute in data centres!
January 20, 2025
Integration of through-sapphire substrate machining with superconducting quantum processorsPublications

Integration of through-sapphire substrate machining with superconducting quantum processors

Superconducting qubits are a promising route to achieving large-scale quantum computers. In this paper, we present... Superconducting quantum processors
January 19, 2025
Resilient systems: OQC Toshiko and natural disastersCase Studies

Resilient systems: OQC Toshiko and natural disasters

Designing quantum computers that are resilient has the potential to become the defining characteristic of a successful quantum ecosystem or a failed one.
January 15, 2025
Direct Quantum Compute-as-a-Service with OQC and EquinixTechnical Blog

Direct Quantum Compute-as-a-Service with OQC and Equinix

OQC and Equinix's partnership has seen an integration of OQC's latest device into Equinix's Tokyo data centre, an integration that has created a secure access option via Equinix Fabric for…
November 15, 2024
What are superconducting qubits?Guides

What are superconducting qubits?

Superconducting qubits are a leading quantum modality. In our new resource, we provide everything you need to know about superconducting qubits!
September 3, 2024
Left: Josephson junctions fabricated in radial pattern around where it was going to be micro-machined later. Right: JJs located
Overcoming scale-up challenges of sapphire-based quantum processorsTechnical Blog

Overcoming scale-up challenges of sapphire-based quantum processors

In a world-first, we have developed a sapphire micro-machining process that integrates seamlessly with our intermediate-scale quantum processors.  Our end-to-end process retains the high coherence qubits and the state-of-the-art wafer…
June 17, 2024
What is quantum computing?Guides

What is quantum computing?

Everything you need to know. Qubits are the basis for quantum computers. They transcend the 1 or 0 binary code that classical computers are based, unlike bits..
June 14, 2024
Exploring quantum machine learning in biomedicineCase Studies

Exploring quantum machine learning in biomedicine

A promising novel solution is to combine the power of quantum computing, with the benefits of federated learning (FL), namely, hybrid classical-quantum federated learning. This distributed quantum learning approach enables…
June 6, 2024
Precise Forecasting with hybrid quantum-classical algorithmsCase Studies

Precise Forecasting with hybrid quantum-classical algorithms

Classical compute methods struggle to capture system intricacies but hybrid quantum-classical algorithms have the potential to predict chaotic dynamics.
April 30, 2024
(a) As-fabricated Josephson junction resistances from a typical OQC Lucy-8QPU wafer. JJ resistances are in three separate design groups 1, 2, and 3, designated by the colours grey, red, and blue. (b) The same wafer having undergone our electron-beam annealing process. The spread of each JJ group is reduced.
E-beam annealing of Josephson junctions offers precise control over qubit frequenciesTechnical Blog

E-beam annealing of Josephson junctions offers precise control over qubit frequencies

Electron-beam (e-beam) annealing of Josephson junctions offers precise control over qubit frequencies post-fabrication.
March 14, 2024
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Hardware efficient error detectionTechnical Blog

Hardware efficient error detection

Error-detection and correction is needed to improve computations. OQC have demonstrated a hardware efficient method for reducing a significant source of error.
March 11, 2024
Electron-beam annealing of Josephson junctions for frequency tuning of quantum processorsPublications

Electron-beam annealing of Josephson junctions for frequency tuning of quantum processors

In this paper, we present an approach to tuning fixed-frequency qubits with the use of an electron beam to locally anneal the Josephson junction.
February 27, 2024
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Hybrid in your back gardenTechnical Blog

Hybrid in your back garden

We’re actively exploring how our software and hardware ecosystem, fully integrated into colocation data centres, can cater to the requirements of quantum algorithms.
February 19, 2024
Quantum ColocationWhitepapers

Quantum Colocation

Our world-first integration is just the first step. Download our whitepaper to find out why we took quantum out of the lab and into the data centre. Quantum Colocation.
November 21, 2023
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How to use pulse-level control on OQC’s superconducting quantum computerTechnical Blog

How to use pulse-level control on OQC’s superconducting quantum computer

Amazon Braket Pulse enables users to control and modify the low-level analog instructions for quantum computers, to optimise performance or develop new analog protocols, like error suppression and mitigation.
August 9, 2023
Close up of OQC Lucy
An important step towards 24/7 availability: co-processingTechnical Blog

An important step towards 24/7 availability: co-processing

Paving the way to for exclusive time window to submit tasks
July 5, 2023
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Challenges for Radiation Transport: Monte Carlo and BeyondCase Studies

Challenges for Radiation Transport: Monte Carlo and Beyond

The additional processing power of quantum computers has the potential to make Monte Carlo algorithms much more powerful.
May 12, 2023
OQC integrates TKET diagram
OQC integrates TKET, demonstrates 4x optimisationTechnical Blog

OQC integrates TKET, demonstrates 4x optimisation

We have plugged TKET into our compiler pipeline to help address barriers such as long circuit compilation.
July 5, 2021
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