Photonic invited to participate in DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Stage A

Photonic, an emerging provider of distributed quantum computing, has been selected for Stage A of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI).

As part of the QBI effort, Photonic intends to demonstrate to DARPA that its large-scale quantum computing approach will reach industrial scale.

Photonic’s Entanglement First™ architecture provides a solution for distributed quantum computing.

"When DARPA announced QBI last year, we were pleased to see that their definition of “utility scale” includes not only the computational value, but also the costs,” said Dr. Stephanie Simmons, founder and Chief Quantum Officer at Photonic. “We know that maintainability, serviceability, reliability, manufacturability – in addition to the obvious scale required to unlock the promise of quantum – are critical.”

As an emerging concept, QBI, which is open to any organization, focuses on cutting through the “hype” by evaluating approaches to utility-scale quantum computing. QBI aims to verify and validate whether any quantum computing approach can achieve utility-scale operation — meaning its computational value exceeds its cost — by 2033. Stage A of the QBI process involves describing a utility-scale quantum computer concept with a plausible path to realization in the near term.

In addition to funding program participants, QBI will enhance its ongoing research and development efforts by providing unbiased third-party verification and validation of an organization’s path to a utility-scale quantum computer.

The Program has three stages:

Stage A: During this stage, QBI will develop a description of a utility-scale quantum computer concept that has a plausible path to realization in the near term.

Stage B: This stage will create a description of a Research and Development Plan capable of realizing a utility-scale quantum computer, including the risks associated with that plan, the planned risk mitigation steps, and the prototypes needed to mitigate these risks.

Stage C: Working with the Government to verify and validate that the utility-scale quantum computer concept can be constructed as designed and operated as intended.

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