Horizon Quantum, a developer of software infrastructure for quantum applications, and AQT (Alpine Quantum Technologies), a trapped-ion quantum computing company, have announced a strategic collaboration to advance the development of real-world quantum computing applications via increased hardware-software integration.
The collaboration will integrate Horizon Quantum’s Triple Alpha development environment with AQT’s trapped-ion quantum processors. This is intended to enable developers with and without specialised hardware expertise to harness AQT’s systems at various levels of abstraction. Using Triple Alpha, developers can write, compile, and deploy quantum programs directly onto AQT’s processors, accessing the hardware via the cloud.
“AQT’s trapped ion systems provide low error rates and long coherence times, potentially increasing the scalability and reliability of quantum computing,” said Horizon Quantum CEO Dr Joe Fitzsimons. “Through this collaboration, Triple Alpha users will gain access to AQT’s processors, expanding their options for cutting-edge hardware designed to solve difficult computational problems.”
“The Triple Alpha software development environment navigates the diversity and complexity of today’s quantum stack, providing developers with access at multiple levels of abstraction to deliver both programming freedom and fine-grained precision,” said Dr Thomas Monz, CEO of AQT. “The collaboration with Horizon Quantum provides broad and easy access to AQT’s hardware and leverages synergies between the two companies, which share the common goal of advancing quantum computing in practice.”
Through this collaboration, the two companies will work together to solve computational problems and achieve joint technical firsts in the fields of quantum computing and software development.
