QBee b.v.
Martelarenlaan 38 (3th floor)
3010 Leuven
+32 495 88 66 88
koen.bertels@QBee.eu
Quantum accelerator
From Transistors to Qubits
- Computer technology is based on transistors, and we are very close to the end of the famous Moore’s law.
- Moore was one of the founders of Intel and predicted that the number of transistors doubles almost every 2 years.
- That evolution is coming to an end as we are now at the 2-nanometer size of a single transistor.
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QBee Mission
A small history of QBee
10 years ago, one of the founders of QBee started working on quantum computing in Delft and managed to land the US-based company, Intel. They wanted to develop a first tentative quantum chip. There was also an intensive collaboration with the superconducting team in Delft and that led to a relatively large quantum chip of more than 30 qubits.
QBee’s founders have been active in quantum computing for 10 years
Where the world is
- Classical computers are built with CMOS-transistors. The current size of CMOS transistors is 2 nanometer.
- There is a clear technology stop to building even more powerful supercomputers as we can not scale down the transistors anymore.
- Quantum bits, called Qubits, are a realistic alternative to make even more powerful computers for the many world problems we have to solve
From NISQ to PISQ
- Experimental physics focuses on NISQ, Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum computing aspects. Many fundamental challenges still need to be resolved, for example, narrowing down on the quantum technology that can be used to make a scalable quantum processor.
- There is also an increasing need for PISQ, Perfect Intermediate-Scale Quantum computing.
- Quantum logic will have a profound effect on all scientific and industrial fields.
- Universities will have to train and educate people to understand the quantum effects for any scientific field.
- Companies need to start building quantum-competent teams such that quantum-based solutions can be developed.
QBee’s contribution
- Quantum accelerator – based on the full-stack that is now adopted by many big players in the quantum field
- Perfect qubits – application logic needs to be formulated in terms of perfect qubits
Quantum Technology
QBee has defined the full stack for a quantum accelerator. It starts at the application layer and, as a company, focuses on Quantum Genetics and Quantum Chemistry. Any application is then executed by different, fully integrated layers such as the programming language, the micro-architecture up to the quantum simulator.
Micro-Architecture
The entire micro-architecture controls the execution of any application on the quantum accelerator.
+The PISQ-vision
The QBee philosophy is based on the PISQ-vision.
- PISQ stands for Perfect Intermediate-Scale Quantum
- This complementary to the Quantum Hardware vision which is named NISQ, where ‘N’ stands for Noisy,
- and the noisy challenges are fundamentally different for various technologies like superconducting, ion traps or photonics qubits.