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The development and implementation of any technology that opens new frontiers involves the transition from concept to prototype to minimum viable product, culminating in a scalable system with desired functionality. Early developments offer glimpses of the potential, while the broader achievement of scalable capacity unlocks true commercial value. These earlier stages of theory and possibility […]

Scalability is perhaps the biggest challenge facing quantum computing. Known technologies have fundamental limitations on how many qubits can fit in a single module, which poses the question of how to scale beyond the number of qubits that can be hosted by a single module. The ability to distribute entanglement answers this question. If a […]

Developing performant quantum systems of commercial utility will require hundreds to thousands of logical qubits. To achieve this capacity, quantum systems must be modular due to the upper limits of qubit capacity in any single monolithic machine. Photonic is focused on overcoming the challenge of entanglement distribution as the key to unlocking the potential of […]

Quantum computing is undergoing a period of rapid evolution. The era of noisy, intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) is coming to an end, and new systems demonstrating small-scale logical qubit architectures are attracting the interest of early adopters. We are entering the era of quantum error correction where the fidelity of qubits is improved by applying […]

Photonic is excited to announce the newly publicized results from our collaboration with research partners at Simon Fraser University and Dartmouth College. Our research, Optical transition parameters of the silicon T centre, now published in APS Physical Review Applied, delves deep into the physics of T centres, our chosen qubit technology. T centres are a […]

Today, we’re making three announcements at Photonic that we believe bring us a significant step closer to turning quantum computing’s potential into reality

Photonic is growing. Our team is bringing next-generation science and engineering technologies – those based on silicon spin-photon interfaces – to tackle the challenge of building scalable, fault-tolerant networked quantum computers. We’ve spent the last couple of years focusing primarily on R&D; we’re still growing that team, but we are also expanding the commercialization skillsets […]

When large-scale universal quantum computers become accessible, the world will suddenly find itself able to tackle a whole set of problems that are, right now, beyond our capabilities—currently constrained by the limits of classical computing. Just the fact that we will be able to model and simulate complex systems and processes means we’ll be able […]

Quantum effects occur in materials naturally at the atomic and molecular level. Since the early 1980s, when Richard Feynman first proposed the concept of a “quantum computer,” a number of materials with quantum properties have been identified and applied to the challenge of quantum computing. Two of the early leading technologies – ion traps and […]