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Amazon Braket launches the Rigetti Ankaa-2 superconducting device
Exciting news for the quantum computing community! Amazon Braket has just onboarded Rigetti’s newest 84-qubit superconducting quantum processor, Ankaa-2. This device offers faster gate times, improved fidelities, and 24/7 availability. Learn more about how you can access Ankaa-2 and start running algorithms today in this new blog post.
A new building block for error-corrected quantum computers
Quantum error correction is key to building useful quantum computers. New research by Amazon & Caltech demonstrates a strategy that cuts the overhead of error correction. A lot.
Citi and Classiq advance quantum solutions for portfolio optimization using Amazon Braket
Today we look at how Citi Innovation Labs is exploring quantum computing for portfolio optimization in partnership with Classiq and AWS. Their research examines how adjustments to the QAOA algorithm’s penalty factor impact performance.
Constructing an “end-to-end” quantum algorithm: a comprehensive technical resource for algorithms designers
Today we’re introducing Quantum algorithms: A survey of applications and end-to-end complexities. This is a comprehensive resource, designed for quantum computing researchers and customers who are looking to explore how quantum algorithms will apply to their use cases.
An Illustrated Introduction to Quantum Networks and Quantum Repeaters
Quantum networks are an emerging technology that distribute entangled quantum bits to geographically separated users. These networks can enable new communication tasks such as the generation of shared cryptographic keys whose security does not depend on algorithmic complexity. This security can supplement and extend the current state-of-the-art in public key cryptography and future-proof it against […]
Combinatorial Optimization with Physics-Inspired Graph Neural Networks
Combinatorial optimization problems, such as the traveling salesman problem where we are looking for an optimal path with a discrete number of variables, are pervasive across science and industry. Practical (and yet notoriously challenging) applications can be found in virtually every industry, such as transportation and logistics, telecommunications, and finance. For example, optimization algorithms help […]
Amazon Braket launches Lucy, a new quantum processor from Oxford Quantum Circuits and expands to the Europe (London) Region
Since launch, Amazon Braket has been committed to providing customers with a single access point to different quantum hardware choices, allowing them to experiment and innovate with multiple quantum processing units (QPUs) through the same interface. Today we announce the general availability of the first publicly available QPU from Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC). The device, […]
Updates from re:Invent 2021
With so much happening at the annual re:Invent conference, it would be easy to miss some of the updates in AWS Quantum Technologies. In this post we summarize four recent announcements: a new feature that helps customers run hybrid quantum-classical algorithms more easily and with better performance, two new quantum processing units (QPUs) coming to […]
Announcing the opening of the AWS Center for Quantum Computing
What if by harnessing the properties of quantum mechanics we could model and simulate the behavior of matter at its most fundamental level, down to how molecules interact? The machine that would make that possible would be transformative, changing what we know about science and how we probe nature for answers. Quantum computers have the […]
Low-overhead quantum computing with Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill qubits
Introduction This post summarizes a research paper from the AWS Center for Quantum Computing that proposes a direction to implement fault-tolerant quantum computers with minimal hardware overhead. This research shows that by concatenating the surface code with Gottesman, Kitaev, and Preskill (GKP) qubits, it is theoretically possible to achieve a logical error rate of 10-8 […]