Technology giant Microsoft is partnering up with Atom Computing to build the world’s most powerful quantum supercomputer, which will also be made available commercially.
The company said that the quantum machine will be a step forward in its Azure Quantum compute platform.
“Through this collaboration, we’re bringing a new generation of reliable quantum hardware to customers by integrating and advancing Atom Computing’s neutral-atom hardware into our Azure Quantum compute platform. With it, we are bringing the best-in-class from Microsoft and our partner ecosystem to provide the commercial offering of a reliable quantum machine,” Microsoft said in a recent blog post.
Microsoft and Atom Computing’s collaboration
Microsoft also stated that it has, in collaboration with Quantinuum , applied its “improved qubit-virtualization system to create and entangle 12 highly reliable logical qubits. This represents the largest number of entangled logical qubits, with the highest fidelity, on record.”
These advancements are aiding in building scalable quantum computing that can address practical and real-world challenges.
The company also demonstrated the first end-to-end chemistry simulation that combines reliable logical quantum computation with cloud high-performance computing (HPC) and AI.
Meanwhile, Atom Computing, through its own blog post , said that it is collaborating with Microsoft to accelerate the development of fault-tolerant quantum supercomputers that can solve impactful problems too difficult for even the most powerful classical supercomputing systems.
“Both Atom Computing and Microsoft have been contributing significant resources to integrate upgrades across the full hardware and software stack to efficiently create logical qubits and accelerating toward scientific and commercial advantage,” the blog post read.
Goals for the strategic tie-up
Atom Computing added that in the near term, the goal is to advance Level 2 resilient computation by entangling multiple logical qubits with very low logical error rates.
“Driven by Atom Computing’s ability to scale the number of physical qubits by tenfold with each generation of our systems, we will together continue to demonstrate significant milestones faster than previously thought possible,” it added.
Microsoft said that Atom Computing’s hardware combines capabilities essential for expanding quantum error correction, including large numbers of high-fidelity qubits, all-to-all qubit connectivity, long coherence times, and mid-circuit measurements with qubit reset and reuse.
“The company is building 2 nd generation systems with over 1,200 physical qubits and plans to increase the physical qubit count tenfold with each new hardware generation,” Microsoft said .
The collaboration aims to integrate Atom Computing’s capabilities to Azure Elements with the goal of empowering organizations to tackle scientifically and commercially relevant problems with today’s most advanced computational solutions, “including designing and predicting properties of chemicals and materials, exploring molecular interactions and simulating complex chemical reactions.”
“We are excited to accelerate Atom Computing’s quantum capabilities with Microsoft as our partner. We believe that this collaboration uniquely positions us to scale and be first to reach scientific quantum advantage. Our neutral-atom technology is an ideal foundation for Microsoft’s leading qubit-virtualization capabilities, and we look forward to enabling fault tolerant, cutting-edge quantum applications for global innovators to use the best platform in the world,” said Ben Bloom, Founder and CEO of Atom Computing.
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