World's first publicly available photonic quantum computing platform

Toronto-based Xanadu announced the release of the world's first publicly available photonic Quantum Computing platform.

Canada isn't the first country that springs to mind as a potential leader in this space alongside the likes of the US, China, and the UK, but Toronto-based 2016 startup Xanadu aims to change that.

Xanadu mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. They are using silicon quantum photonic chips powering a room-temperature and scalable quantum computer as photonic hardware. Xanadu are working on the first dedicated library for quantum machine learning - PennyLane - open-source tools for quantum machine learning, quantum computing, and quantum chemistry.

According to an announcement from the company, the Xanadu Quantum Cloud currently gives developers access to eight- and 12-qubit processors, and soon a 24-qubit machine. As a photon- (light) based system for quantum calculations - as opposed to superconductor or ion-trap systems - these processors can operate at room temperature and could potentially integrate more easily with fibre-optic based telecommunications.

Find more details:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/photonic-quantum