IBM Quantum, building commercially available universal quantum computers for business and science, IBM, Armonk, New York, USA

Jerry Chow, an experimental quantum computing scientist at IBM, introduces viewers to the Quantum Lab at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. It is home to a five-qubit processor that represents the latest advancement in IBM’s quantum computing architecture. It can scale to larger quantum systems, and is the leading approach towards building a universal quantum computer.

As part of this pursuit, IBM is introducing a cloud-enabled quantum computing platform called the IBM Quantum Experience to let researchers and the scientific community experiment on a quantum processor to help discover new applications for this technology.

The IBM team has made a number of engineering advances represented in the five-qubit processor. Quantum information is very fragile and needs to be protected from any errors that can result from heat and electromagnetic radiation. The quantum processor’s superconducting qubits are cooled to 15 millikelvin, which is close to absolute zero Fahrenheit. Signals are sent in and out of the refrigerators to measure operations on the quantum processor.

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In its latest move to build a practical quantum computer, IBM Research for the first time ever is making quantum computing available in the cloud to anyone interested in hands-on access to the company’s advanced experimental quantum system.

The quantum computing platform called the IBM Quantum Experience will make it easier for researchers and the scientific community to accelerate innovations, and help discover new applications for this technology.

The race to build a universal quantum computer paves the way to solve challenges that are out of reach of today’s classical computers. IBM’s latest five-qubit processor is the beginning of the quantum age of computing. A universal quantum computer, once built, will represent one of the greatest milestones in the history of information technology. Inspired by nature and the laws of quantum mechanics, IBM believes quantum computing is the future of computing and has the potential to solve certain problems we couldn’t solve, and will never be able to solve, with today’s classical computers.

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IBM Research is making quantum computing available to the public for the first time, providing access to a quantum computing platform from any desktop or mobile device via the cloud. Users of the platform called the IBM Quantum Experience can create algorithms and run experiments on an IBM quantum processor, learn about quantum computing through tutorials and simulations, and get inspired by the possibilities of a quantum computer.

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Scientists Hanhee Paik and Martin Sandberg from IBM’s quantum computing research team provide an overview of the architecture of IBM’s new 16-qubit quantum processor, its potential uses and how it compares to the previous generation 5-qubit processor.

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Title: QISKit: A Swiss Army Knife for Quantum Computation
Speaker: Jay Gambetta
Date: 1/9/18

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ABSTRACT

It is clear that in recent years quantum computing has moved from proof of principle demonstrations to emerging as a technology. This is an exciting time as theory, experiments, quantum software, and quantum hardware are merging into one and allowing the development of the first quantum stack. In this talk I will start by giving a (very) brief general overview of hardware we are building (superconducting qubits) and then focus on Qiskit . QISKit is an open source Python quantum software development kit we are developing for writing quantum computing experiments, programs, and applications. It allows the user to program and run quantum applications on real quantum hardware using the IBM Q experience and local or online simulators. I will outline a simple quantum “hello world” program and show how QISKit can be used to make complicated quantum states and run more advanced applications.

SPEAKER
Jay Gambetta

Jay Gambetta is a quantum information scientist researching in the field of quantum information and computation. He joined IBM in 2011 and is now the Manager of the Quantum Theory, Software, and Applications group. At IBM he has contributed to the work on quantum validation techniques such as randomized benchmarking and gate set tomography, quantum codes, improved gates and coherence, near term applications of quantum computing, the IBM Quantum Experience, and QISKit. Prior to IBM he held positions as at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Canada and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University. In 2014 was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society, nominated by the topical Group of Quantum Information. He holds a doctorate in physics from Griffith University Australia and has over 90 publications with more than 10000 citations in field of quantum information science. Jay was a member of the panel “Quantum Computing: Far Away? Around the Corner? Or Maybe Both at the Same Time?” at the 50 Years of ACM AM Turing Award Celebration.

MODERATOR
Whurley

William Hurley, commonly known as whurley, is a serial entrepreneur who founded Honest Dollar [Acquired by Goldman Sachs NYSE: GS], and Chaotic Moon [Acquired by Accenture NYSE: ACN]. His latest startup is Strangeworks, a quantum computing company.

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Jeffrey Welser of IBM Research explains quantum computing and the big refrigerator next to him. Dean Takahashi of VentureBeat interviewed Welser about it at the Semicon West show in San Francisco, where IBM showed off its IBM Q System's cooling unit for its quantum processor.

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Quantum computing is about tackling problems that cannot be addressed by classical computers. What kind of problems? Watch and find out!

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