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At OQC, we are building quantum computers tailored towards applications with real-world value.
To date, we have developed and deployed three generations of quantum computers: each with advancing qubit numbers, quality and commerciality. Our 32-qubit Toshiko device is deployed and securely accessible in datacentres in the UK, Japan and soon New York, as well as in a supercomputing centre in Spain.
Now we are pioneering the next era of quantum computing – the logical era. Our OQC GENESIS device marks our transformative shift into hardware that is purpose-built to enable the first useful applications of quantum computers by the end of the decade.
Pioneering The Logical Era
To achieve the accuracy required for useful applications, it is essential to develop logical qubits. Each made of many physical qubits, logical qubits are protected against errors, enabling large-scale quantum computations.
By combining our patented novel logical qubit designs with world-leading gate-speeds and intrinsically compact hardware footprint, our approach is engineered for all-round performance, leading the way to achieve the speed, quality and scale needed for commercial quantum computing.
Speed, Quality and Scale: Our Unparalleled Capabilities
Speed
Superconducting qubits are inherently fast and incredibly flexible. By redesigning the structure of our flagship qubit, the Coaxmon, recent research in our founder and CSO Peter Leek’s lab at the University of Oxford demonstrated a world-leading combination of speed and accuracy – with quantum gates running in 25 billionths of a second, with only 0.2% error. This patented design means that our future quantum devices will run applications in seconds or days that could take other hardware platforms (such as ions or atoms) months or even years. Leading even in the field of superconducting qubits, which are known to be fast, our speeds can offer crucial advantages in time-sensitive fields such as finance, national security & defence.
Quality
We have designed a new way of encoding information into the OQC Coaxmon™ qubit, known as the dual-rail encoded dimon qubit. The OQC Dimon® behaves as two qubits in the footprint of one, forming a single logical qubit with a unique 1:1 logical-to-physical qubit ratio. Without adding any hardware overhead, this enables us to detect errors on the individual qubit level, which we recently demonstrated gives an order of magnitude increase in the lifetime of our qubits. It suppresses the most dominant form of error in superconducting quantum computers by 10x. The Dimon® forms the basis of our next generation of quantum computers OQC GENESIS, with a step change in qubit quality.
Scale
High-quality qubits alone are not enough. We need large numbers of logical qubits to enable useful applications, and the coaxial architecture of our OQC Coaxmon™ qubit enables the simplicity and compactness required for scale. Thanks to this 3D architecture, we are taking a unique approach to scaling our hardware by using a single wafer all the way up from megaquop (millions of operations) to teraquop (trillions of operations). While other platforms need to use modular devices, deteriorating their accuracy, we can densely pack our high-quality qubits, vastly reducing the demands on control hardware and cryogenics, so we can accelerate progress to commercially useful scales.
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