Canadian quantum computing company Photonic has secured $100 million for its all-silicon quantum computing platform. Among the investors is its new partner Microsoft, which will jointly develop quantum network responses with the startup.
The investment and partnership come at a time when many industry experts are hailing Photonic’s novelty in quantum computing as a “breakthrough” in the field.
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Photonic’s approach is to build quantum computers with silicon spin qubits with a spin-photon interface; In other words, a computer that uses light qubits to perform quantum calculations on silicon hardware.
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In quantum computing, a qubit is analogous to the bits of a binary computer. However, while a binary or classical computer can only perform calculations with ones and zeros, a qubit can exploit exotic features of quantum physics called “superposition” and “entanglement. “”These quantum states allow qubits to compute in a way that would resemble a binary bit that can use ones, zeros, ones and zeros, neither ones nor zeros, and other even less intuitive combinations.
A spin qubit goes a step further by adding the spin of electrons. And by creating a qubit with a photonic spin interface in an all-silicon hardware solution, Photonic believes it has discovered the missing piece of the puzzle when it comes to quantum. computer science.
Stephanie Simmons, founder and head of Photonic’s quantum business, said the company plans to commercialize a functional, fault-tolerant quantum lattice formula in the next five years.
According to Simmons, the partnership with Microsoft will facilitate this timeline:
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