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QuiX Quantum Delivers First Universal Photonic Quantum Computer Named Carina
Netherlands-based QuiX Quantum has delivered Carina, the first universal photonic quantum computer, to customers. The system uses single photons as qubits and operates at room temperature in standard data center racks. It was developed under a German Aerospace Center project.
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QuiX Quantum delivered the first universal photonic quantum computer to customers. The system, named Carina, uses single photons as physical qubits, operates at room temperature and fits in standard data center racks. Carina offers eight input photonic qubits and four computational photonic qubits.
Forbes reported that the machine was built as part of the Universal Photonic Quantum Computer project of the German Aerospace Center's Quantum Computing Initiative, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. Its core hardware has already been delivered to the DLR QCI.
The computer is designed to implement a universal gate set and run small-scale demonstrations of algorithms including Shor's, Grover's, Deutsch-Jozsa and quantum teleportation.
QuiX recently demonstrated a production-ready form of below-threshold error mitigation on a photonic quantum computer and released its Dedalo white paper outlining plans for scaling toward logical qubits. Stefan Hengesbach, CEO of QuiX Quantum, said Carina is a customer-specific platform that includes system design, integration, delivery and support.
Systems of this class are multi-million euro strategic infrastructure projects, he added.
Gerard J. Milburn, a professor at the University of Queensland and early pioneer in photonic quantum technology, said the delivery shows the measurement-based approach is tractable and navigable with integrated photonics.
