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Universal Quantum Solving the million qubit challenge
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Universal Quantum develops quantum computing technology.
Quantum computers can solve certain problems that may take the fastest supercomputer billions of years to solve. They form a new and highly disruptive technology that may impact numerous industry sectors. Application examples include search, optimizations problems, artificial intelligence, machine learning and the data economy. Quantum computers will be able to allow us create new pharmaceuticals, understand chemical reactions and solve certain problems that were deemed unsolvable such as helping to tackle Dementia or enable more efficient fertilizer production. Competitor technologies (Google/IBM) require cooling to milli-Kelvin temperatures and are limited in the number of qubits that can be realized. In stark contrast, our technology scales to billions of qubits and only requires mild cooling at 70K. Other ideas for building practical quantum computers with trapped ions involve aligning pairs of individual laser beams with an accuracy of 10 µm for every qubit, billions of qubits would require billions of pairs of laser beams! Our approach replaces these laser beams with voltages applied a microchip analogous to the operation of classical transistors. While competitors make use of optical fibre connections to connect individual quantum computing modules, our approach will use electric field connections resulting in connection speeds between modules up to four orders of magnitude faster, yet involving much simpler engineering.
Universal Quantum is one of the largest companies in this sector in the UK.
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Universal Quantum is one of the largest companies in this sector in the UK. Universal Quantum has been awarded two contracts by the German Space Agency for the construction of two quantum computers in total of €67M. This is one of the largest government quantum computing contracts ever awarded to a single company. Universal Quantum has won the 2022 Institute of Physics Business Start-up Award, see here: https://www.iop.org/about/awards/business-awards/2022-winners/universal-quantum.
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