Welcome to this edition of Qubit/TIDBIT from GooglyTech!

Some of the stories we write about in this issue include interesting partnerships, large enterprises positioning for future quantum play and an exciting week coming-up at Q2B conference  -

• Eni and Pasqal Using Quantum Computing for Enhancing HPC Solutions in Energy Sector

• Tech Services Giant TCS on Amazon Braket

• Interesting Product Integration from Q-CTRL and Classiq 
• First House of Quantum Opens 
• Q2B Conference in Slicon Valley

December 2022 - Issue 7

Eni, the multinational energy company out of Italy is partnering with PASQAL, France-based quantum computing company to develop HPC solutions for the energy sector using quantum computing.

PASQAL, co-founded by 2022 Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Alain Aspect (see our previous story here) raised €25M in Series A funding last year. Investors included Eni, through its venture arm Eni Next.

Eni has been hosting and operating – HPC5 – since 2020, one of the largest private supercomputers in world. Eni uses its HPC (High Performance Computer) to process geophysical and seismic data from around the world to aid in identification and launch of production of energy. Sustainability and decarbonization are part of goals in these efforts.

The use of quantum computers will help solve problems that are sometimes limiting with just HPC alone and the basis for this partnership with PASQAL. As Dario Pagani, Eni’s Head of Digital & High-Performance Computing puts it, “PASQAL’s quantum computers will allow us to complement our conventional HPC workflows in areas such as optimization and machine learning and accelerate our research to create new solutions to the most pressing issues in the energy industry.” Eni expects the partnership with PASQAL to impact different parts of its value chain such as Upstream, Downstream, Chemicals and Renewables. ...   

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Next week will see one of more exciting annual events in the quantum world coming together. Organized by QCWare, Q2B, touted as the largest conference in the quantum computing community will take place (in-person) at the Santa Clara Convention Center on December 6-8, 2022 (registration details here).

Jointly sponsored by Quantinuum, AWS, ColdQuanta, IBM, Quantum Delta, UK National Quantum Technologies Programme among others, this year’s featured speakers will include:

• John Preskill – Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics and Director, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at California Institute of Technology

• Major General Heather L. Pringle – Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory and Technology Executive Officer, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force

• Scott Aaronson – David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Quantum Information Center, University of Texas at Austin

• K. Birgitta Whaley – Director, Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center, Professor of Chemical Physics, University of California, Berkeley

(Also includes Q&A with with Yianni Gamvros, SVP, Sales and Marketing at QCWare)

How would you characterize the Q2B Conference?

Credit for starting this conference goes to Matt Johnson, Co-founder and CEO of QCWare. Quantum computing as a subject is typically discussed in heavily technical conferences like physics or computer science events. ... 

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a multinational giant out of India is teaming up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer a virtual quantum computing research and development environment (TCS Quantum Computing Lab) utilizing Amazon Braket. This was announced at the AWS re:Invent conference this week.

Amazon Braket is an on-demand, managed service from AWS that provides access to quantum computing devices (see here for a list of hardware vendors on Braket) allowing enterprise users to explore, develop, and test business solutions in development environments such as TCS Quantum Computing Lab.

Use-cases: Focus on High-Performance, Data-Intensive Services

Commenting on their goals and focus areas for the TCS Quantum Computing Lab, Krishna Mohan, Global Head, AWS Business Unit at TCS, says, “Our goal with the TCS Quantum Computing Lab on AWS is to show customers that quantum has arrived to offer real, accessible value for many different types of organizations. ...

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Q-CTRL is partnering with Classiq to offer a full integrated platform for designing and optimizing quantum algorithms. Classiq’s platform allows users to create algorithms and automate the process of converting high-level functional models into optimized quantum circuits. In other words, the platform allows adaptability to hardware and system constraints and optimizes output accordingly. Q-CTRL focuses on developing error-mitigation solutions in quantum environment

The integration between the two platforms “will provide a single interface where developers can use both solutions to create algorithms and run them with high-performance error reduction techniques, simplifying the end-to-end process of getting useful insights from quantum computers.”

Error-Suppression and Quantum Computing

Currently, most quantum computers are so error prone that only the shortest and simplest algorithms can be run; this challenge has inhibited the delivery of useful quantum computations to end users. ...

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Quantum Delta NL (QDNL) opened the first House of Quantum, in Delft this week. This building is more than a co-working space for start-ups and enterprises and will include high-end labs among other advantages and will be uniquely, focused on quantum computing industry.

Launching members of this House of Quantum are: Orange QS, Qblox, Qphox, Quantware, Delft Circuits, Single Quantum, Q*Bird, Bluefors, Microsoft, Quantum Delft and Quantum Delta NL.

Public – Industry Partnership

Public-Industry partnerships have been a key driving force in quantum industry development. Quantum Delta NL attracted a €615 million euros investment for the further development of Quantum Technology from the Dutch government in 2021. The House of Quantum is one of several programs from QDNL to foster the ecosystem for quantum technologies. ... 

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• December 6-8, 2022 – Q2B22 Silicon Valley (Location – Santa Clara, California; Register here). See our story on the conference here.

• December 14-15, 2022 – QKD Days Madrid 2022 (Location – Madrid, Spain; Details here).

• December 14-15, 2022 – Workshop on continuous-variable photonic quantum computing (Location – Hotel Scandic Falkoner Denmark; Details here).