Starting today, customers can explore three new experimental capabilities on QuEra’s Aquila device that provide increased flexibility and control for your workloads running in Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service of AWS. All of these capabilities are available through Braket Direct, a program designed to expand how you explore quantum computing on AWS. Braket Direct provides researchers dedicated access to quantum hardware and the ability to engage directly with scientific experts – all from the same place. With today’s launch, you can experiment with local detuning, taller geometries ..read more

This post was contributed by Kohji Nishimura, CTO, Jij, Yoshitaka Haribara, Senior Startup ML/Quantum Solutions Architect and Perminder Singh, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Quantum, at AWS Numerical optimization is the process of minimizing or maximizing a given cost function, subject to any given constraints. Business needs across many industry verticals, like manufacturing, logistics, and telecommunication, require solving large-scale optimization problems. A scheduling plan that minimizes traffic congestion in logistics application, or a manufacturing plan that minimizes overall produ ..read more

This post was contributed by Eyal Leviatan, Barak Katzir, Eyal Bairey, Omri Golan, and Netanel Lindner from Qedma, Joshua Goings from IonQ, and Daniela Becker from AWS. Quantum computing is an exciting, fast-paced field. And especially in these early days, unfettered access to the right set of resources is critical in order to accelerate experimentation and innovation. Amazon Braket provides customers access to a choice of quantum hardware and the tooling they need to experiment, while also enabling them to engage directly with experts across the field – from scientists to device manufacturers ..read more

This post was contributed by Gili Rosenberg, Kyle Brubaker, Martin Schuetz, Grant Salton, Jason Zhu, and Helmut Katzgraber from the Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab, and Elton Zhu, Serdar Kadıoğlu, Sima Borujeni from the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) and the AI Centre of Excellence at Fidelity Investments. Customers routinely develop large, sophisticated machine learning (ML) models to accomplish a variety of tasks. These models tend to be extremely complex by design (sometimes with billions of parameters), and hence their inner workings are difficult to understand and interpret. H ..read more

This post was contributed by Yoram Avidan, Iftach Yakar, and Zachar Borsutsky from Citi, Adam Goldfeld and Tamuz Danzig from Classiq, and Perminder Singh from AWS. Citi Innovation Labs, a group tasked with identifying and harnessing emerging technology for Citi, partnered with Classiq on this project for their expertise and support. Classiq’s stack allows modeling at a higher level of abstraction tailored for quantum software development, bridging the gap between the quantum information and financial worlds, offering access to subject-matter experts and tools that make it easy to design quantu ..read more

Airbus and BMW Group have launched a global Quantum Computing Challenge to tackle the most pressing challenges in aviation and automotive: The Airbus-BMW Group Quantum Mobility Quest. We are delighted to collaborate with Airbus, BMW Group, and The Quantum Insider (TQI) on this challenge, and to invite the quantum community to explore new approaches to industrial applications. It’s still early days in quantum computing, but the Airbus, BMW Group, and AWS teams share the goal to enable research and discovery in this nascent field. This challenge is the first of its kind, bringing together two gl ..read more

To date, the financial services industry has been a pioneer in quantum technology, owing to its plethora of computationally hard use cases and the potential for significant impact from quantum solutions. Daily operations at financial firms such as banks, insurance companies, and hedge funds require solving well-defined computational problems on underlying data that is constantly changing. If quantum computers can perform the same calculations faster or with better accuracy than existing solutions, these customers stand to reap significant benefit. In this post we’ll walk you through some key t ..read more

This post was contributed by Patrick Ettenhuber, Marco Majland, Stig Elkjær Rasmussen, and Casper Kirkegaard from Kvantify and Katharine Hyatt and Perminder Singh from AWS One of the most exciting aspects of quantum computing is the prospect of performing chemistry calculations that surpass the capabilities of classical computers. Even though significant progress has been made in both hardware and algorithm design, practical application of quantum computers in chemistry has still been limited to simulations of the simplest possible molecules. For example, current state-of-the-art algorithms ac ..read more

We are excited to announce that customers can now run analog Hamiltonian simulation (AHS) on Rydberg atom quantum devices on Amazon Braket, via the PennyLane-Braket SDK plug-in. Rydberg atom devices, such as QuEra’s Aquila, are a type of neutral-atom quantum computer which features customizable qubit geometry and time-dependent parameter control, allowing you to control the system’s quantum evolution with high precision. In addition to being well-suited to solving optimization problems, AHS provides the ability to explore highly entangled systems, for instance, quantum phases of matter. When d ..read more

This post was contributed by Denis Sukachev, Chawina De-Eknamkul, and Beibei Zeng – research scientists from the AWS Center for Quantum Networking. Telecommunications is the backbone of our modern lives, supporting commerce, travel, and social life across cities, countries, and continents. All this activity is enabled by sharing information between computers connected with optical fibers. Information traveling through these fibers is encoded in optical pulses, which need to be generated, modulated, transmitted, and detected. At each step, light is transferred from a fiber to an electro-optical ..read more