ColdquantaLabs
Here from the Beginning
We’ve been at this for a while. Infleqtion is built on ColdQuanta’s 17 years of pioneering quantum research. Over that time, we’ve been fortunate enough to partner with the US government, NASA, and several other allied governments and organizations. Many companies that are working to bring quantum products to market purchase components manufactured in our lab.
ColdquantaLabs continues to play an integral role in the story of quantum and serves as Infleqtion's research and education division.
Capabilities
Algorithms and Applications
Infleqtion deploys business applications to any quantum computer through an optimized software stack developed by leading researchers. We make a wide range of solutions accessible without the need for quantum experience. Our access to simulators and hardware enables you to forecast the commercial value that quantum will add to your organization.
Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Today’s navigation and security tools rely on GPS technology, which utilizes satellite data. Infleqtion’s atomic clocks solve for situations where GPS-timing is not reliable or available. Our atomic clocks will surpass state-of-the-art performance while achieving a smaller form factor, less power consumption, and lower costs.
Quantum Sensing
Quantum computing usually gets everyone’s attention, but quantum sensors are advancing faster and will most likely be deployed sooner. Quantum sensors can measure minute changes in the environment and could one day be used to detect objects underwater or underground, or to provide navigational information if GPS is knocked out or not available.
Quantum Cores
For over a decade, we've been a critical supplier of key component technologies to many of the world’s research labs and early commercial leaders in quantum machine development. From offering individual components to complete plug-and-play solutions, we carefully craft our products to provide the precision needed to deliver accurate results for your experiments.
Quantum Computing
Sqorpius is the next phase of Infleqtion’s quantum computing program. This new initiative is dedicated to creating error-corrected logical qubits tailored for commercial applications. Infleqtion also builds quantum computers for select national quantum centers around the world, including the Japan Moonshot Program and the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC).
Quantum RF
Quantum radio frequency (QRF) accesses the frequency spectrum like never before. It has vast implications for the telecom and mobile industry. Infleqtion is accessing the RF spectrum at a world record pace and is currently developing QRF technology that will allow us to see farther, faster.
Pioneering quantum capabilities since 2007
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Secures Award from DARPA's Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative for Commercial Quantum Clock
The award will focus on accelerating the productization of ColdQuanta's atomic clock technologies, including sensing and quantum positioning systems (QPS), and support the posture of the company as a leading provider of commercially available quantum solutions.
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OUSD awarded Infleqtion $1.8M for the development of a prototype atomic clock
The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering (OUSD (R&E)) awarded ColdQuanta $1.8M for the development of a prototype atomic clock that could enable reliable, highly accurate, position, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities, necessary for the functioning of critical infrastructure around the world.
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DARPA Selects Research Teams to Enable Quantum Shift in Spectrum Sensing
The program aims to bring quantum techniques to radio frequency sensing to enable new levels of sensitivity, and agility for defense applications.
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DARPA Announces Research Teams to Advance Fundamental Science of Atomic Vapors
SAVaNT teams aim to enable new, room-temperature sensing capabilities and quantum technologies. The teams will develop innovative approaches to push the performance limits of atomic vapors at room temperature and exploit their unique advantages to demonstrate new capabilities for DoD.
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Awarded DARPA Contract to Develop a Complete Rydberg Atom-Based RF Sensor System
System Creates Significant Advancements in Radio Frequency Sensing for Military Communications, Radar and Electronic Warfare. The program aims to demonstrate a system that can receive low intensity, modulated RF signals across a wide spectral range, develop sensor physics and technologies that scale to a fieldable arrayed sensor system, and achieve shot noise limited detection levels that exceed the fundamental limits of classical antennas.
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Air Force Research Laboratory awarded ColdQuanta $750K for the development of a high-performance miniature ion trap system
Compact ion trap systems are applicable to a spectrum of quantum applications including quantum networks, computing, metrology, and timekeeping.
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ColdQuanta Awarded Subcontract to Help Prototype Atomic Clocks for Navy
ColdQuanta has received a five-year subcontract to help develop portable atomic clocks for the Office of Naval Research.
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Air Force takes table-top approach to quantum physics
Air Force Research Laboratory scientists can now study the mysteries of quantum physics in house and at a lower cost, thanks to a new high performance table-top quantum computing system.
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Advances in Quantum Sensing and Timing
AFRL researchers harness cold quantum and other emerging technologies for advanced position, navigation and timing. Atomic physicists at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) are conducting research and development (R&D) of next-generation quantum atomic clocks, quantum sensors and component technologies for the U.S. Space Force and the greater military.
Research
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How to Train Your Gyro: Reinforcement Learning for Rotation Sensing with a Shaken Optical Lattice
As the complexity of the next generation of quantum sensors increases, it becomes more and more intriguing to consider a new paradigm in which the design and control of metrological devices is supported by machine learning approaches. In a demonstration of such a design philosophy, we apply reinforcement learning to engineer a shaken-lattice matter-wave gyroscope involving minimal human intuition.
Liang-Ying Chih, Dana Z. Anderson, Murray Holland (Dec 29, 2022)
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Application of Shaken Lattice Interferometry Based Sensors to Space Navigation
High-sensitivity shaken lattice interferometry (SLI) based sensors have the potential to provide deep space missions with the ability to precisely measure non-gravitational perturbing forces. This work considers the simulation of the OSIRIS-REx mission navigation in the vicinity of Bennu with the addition of measurements from onboard SLI-based accelerometers.
Rybak, Margaret M., et al. "Application of Shaken Lattice Interferometry Based Sensors to Space Navigation." Advances in Space Research (2022).
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Maxwell Matter Waves
Maxwell matter waves emerge from a perspective, complementary to de Broglie's, that matter is fundamentally a wave phenomenon whose particle aspects are revealed by quantum mechanics. Their quantum mechanical description is derived through the introduction of a matter vector potential, having frequency ω0, to Schrodinger's equation for a massive particle. Maxwell matter waves are then seen to be coherent excitations of a single-mode of the matter-wave field. In the classical regime, their mechanics is captured by a matter analog of Maxwell's equations for the electromagnetic field.
Anderson, Dana Z. "Maxwell Matter Waves." arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04549 (2022).
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Clifford-based Circuit Cutting for Quantum Simulation
Quantum computing has potential to provide exponential speedups over classical computing for many important applications. However, today's quantum computers are in their early stages, and hardware quality issues hinder the scale of program execution. Benchmarking and simulation of quantum circuits on classical computers is therefore essential to advance the understanding of how quantum computers and programs operate, enabling both algorithm discovery that leads to high-impact quantum computation and engineering improvements that deliver to more powerful quantum systems.
Smith, K. N., Perlin, M. A., Gokhale, P., Frederick, P., Owusu-Antwi, D., Rines, R., ... & Chong, F. T. (2023). Clifford-based Circuit Cutting for Quantum Simulation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.10788.
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QContext: Context-Aware Decomposition for Quantum Gates
In this paper we propose QContext, a new compiler structure that incorporates context-aware and topology-aware decompositions. Because of circuit equivalence rules and resynthesis, variants of a gate-decomposition template may exist. QContext exploits the circuit information and the hardware topology to select the gate variant that increases circuit optimization opportunities. We study the basis-gate-level context-aware decomposition for Toffoli gates and the native-gate-level context-aware decomposition for CNOT gates. Our experiments show that QContext reduces the number of gates as compared with the state-of-the-art approach, Orchestrated Trios.
Liu, J., Bowman, M., Gokhale, P., Dangwal, S., Larson, J., Chong, F. T., & Hovland, P. D. (2023). QContext: Context-Aware Decomposition for Quantum Gates. arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.02003.
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Mid-circuit measurements on a neutral atom quantum processor
We demonstrate mid-circuit measurements in a neutral atom array by shelving data qubits in protected hyperfine-Zeeman sub-states while non-destructively measuring an ancilla qubit. Measurement fidelity was enhanced using microwave repumping of the ancilla during the measurement. The coherence of the shelved data qubits was extended during the ancilla readout with dynamical decoupling pulses, after which the data qubits are returned to mf = 0 computational basis states. We demonstrate that the quantum state of the data qubits is well preserved up to a constant phase shift with a state preparation and measurement (SPAM) corrected process fidelity of F = 97.0(5)%.
Graham, T. M., Phuttitarn, L., Chinnarasu, R., Song, Y., Poole, C., Jooya, K., ... & Saffman, M. (2023). Mid-circuit measurements on a neutral atom quantum processor. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.10051.