Coldquanta UK Limited

Quantum computing has a significant role to play in a wide variety of computing tasks and is seeing major investment from both the private and public sector worldwide. Even with NISQ-era computers, there are many applications which are of great interest. ColdQuanta UK (CQUK, d.b.a. Infleqtion) are constructing a world-leading neutral-atom quantum computin...

Over reliance on GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite system) for modern infrastructure such as position, navigation and timing is a well-documented and a timely challenge. Spoofing and jamming of the timing and location signals makes navigation by GNSS vulnerable to bad actors, with many notable examples of such attacks affecting both military and commercia...

Modern infrastructure is increasingly dependent on highly accurate timing. This ranges across navigation systems on multiple platforms, the delivery of power around the national grid, timestamping of financial transactions though MiFID II regulations to name but a few. The demand for highly accurate timekeeping across ever larger systems is growing with t...

Quantum technologies will revolutionise sensing, secure communications, and computing. A compelling vision for this technology is a network of quantum enhanced devices, combining the capability of each constituent node, and extending the range over which they operate. To exploit this upcoming technological revolution and to maintain its national security,...

Quantum computing has a significant role to play in a wide variety of computing tasks and is seeing major investment from both the private and public sector worldwide. Even with NISQ-era computers, there are many applications which are of great interest. The SQALE project will deliver a state-of-the-art neutral-atom quantum computing testbed to the NQCC, ...

This project focuses on improving the computational power of quantum computers. These new types of computers, based on building blocks called qubits, will be able to simulate new materials and medicines, optimize logistics and finance, and solve other problems that are too complex for classical computers to handle. However, current quantum computers are n...

Accurate positioning and navigation are essential for the functioning of modern infrastructure and are usually provided by Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) such as GPS. This occurs to such an extent that GNSS is often described as the 'invisible utility'. However, our current overreliance on GNSS creates a large single point of failure and is th...

Quantum computation has the potential to revolutionise a vast number of industries that rely on high-performance computation, such as in pharmaceutical and chemical research, automotive, finance, and logistics. A well-known example in logistics is that of the travelling salesman problem: Given a list of destinations and the distances between them, what is...

Reliable and accurate positioning and navigation functionality is essential for much of or modern society. This need, however, is even stronger for critical national infrastructure (CNI), such as the emergency and defence services. Positioning and navigation are usually provided by Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) such as GPS, which is used to s...

The Quantum Gravimetry for Earth Observation (Q-GEO) project will study the use of quantum atomic gravity gradiometers for space-based measurements. Earth Observation (EO) of gravitational anomalies on land and in the oceans can reveal activity in the hydro-, cryo-, and atmosphere. Gravity detectors in low-earth orbit can already measure Essential Climate...

Analysis of complex data sets is of practical interest to the UK government. Classical machine learning (ML), and in particular generative modeling, offers the ability to extract useful representations of the phenomena underlying these empirical data. Current state-of-the-art neural network models, including transformer-based architectures such as (Chat)G...

Modern infrastructure is increasingly dependent on highly accurate timing. This ranges across navigation systems on multiple platforms, the delivery of power throughout the national grid, and timestamping of financial transactions though MiFID II regulations to name but a few. The demand for highly accurate timekeeping across ever larger systems is growin...