The Japanese IT group NEC has built the first quantum processor based on the ParityQC architecture. The technology was invented at the University of Innsbruck and is being further developed and marketed by the spin-off ParityQC. NEC is now making the quantum computer, which specializes in optimization problems, accessible to science via the cloud.
All over the world, scientists and companies are working feverishly to build quantum computers. These new computing machines will solve many problems faster and more efficiently than previous technologies. Quantum technology promises practical applications very soon, especially in the search for optimal solutions for complex problems.
The basis for this are quantum glow systems or adiabatic quantum computers, which do not work with gate operations like classical computers. Instead, they use the quantum property to look for an optimal state in a physical system. Packaged in suitable algorithms, these systems can be used to find optimal solutions to many problems.
Japanese quantum chip with Austrian know-how
The IT group NEC has now built an 8-bit quantum annealer based on the architecture of the Innsbruck spin-off ParityQC. The first Parity quantum chip consists of superconducting Parametron qubits and is now being made accessible to science by NEC via the cloud. “This is impressive confirmation of the real benefits of the ParityQC approach: noise immunity and scalability for a fully interconnected quantum computer while maintaining long coherence times,” said Hermann Hauser, co-founder of Amadeus Capital and the chip specialist Acorn Computers. . , enthusiastic.
“The acquisition of the ParityQC architecture by NEC, one of the world’s leading supercomputer companies, is an extraordinary achievement for the four-year-old University of Innsbruck spin-off. It makes ParityQC the world’s first architecture QC company with a proven, working application. The benefits of this approach will lead to the ParityQC design being adopted by many other hardware manufacturers. A number of recent announcements by QC consortia in Europe already prove this,” continues Hauser.
“NEC was the first company to introduce a superconducting qubit in the 1990s. We are very proud that their quantum processor, which will now be available for external use for the first time, is based on our architecture,” said Wolfgang Lechner and Magdalena Hauser, co-managing directors of ParityQC.
Austrian success story
Founded in 2020 in Innsbruck, ParityQC markets a technology based on a now-patented idea that quantum physicist Wolfgang Lechner developed in the 2010s with Peter Zoller and Philipp Hauke at the University of Innsbruck and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), developed by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The spin-off took place through the Transfer Office Science – Economy – Society of the University of Innsbruck.
“It is now becoming increasingly clear that our initial assessment of this technology during the 2015 unveiling of the invention was correct and that the basic invention has the potential to become the standard in quantum computing technology. The exploitation of these research findings through the creation of a spin- off makes it possible to further develop the technology in Europe and thus have a maximum impact on the development of this sector while maintaining the added value in Europe A big compliment to the two managing directors for how far-sighted and prudent they are choosing development partners,” says transfer agency manager Sara Matt.
Source: Krone
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