In the rapidly advancing world of quantum computing, to be a leader means not just keeping pace with innovation but driving it forward. It means setting new standards that shape the future of quantum computing performance. A recent independent comparing 19 quantum processing units (QPUs) on the market today has validated what we鈥檝e long known to be true: 夜色直播鈥檚 systems are the undisputed leaders in performance.
The Benchmarking Study
A comprehensive conducted by a joint team from the J眉lich Supercomputing Centre, AIDAS, RWTH Aachen University, and Purdue University compared QPUs from leading companies like IBM, Rigetti, and IonQ, evaluating how well each executed the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), a widely used algorithm that provides a system level measure of performance. After thorough examination, the study concluded that:
鈥...the performance of quantinuum H1-1 and H2-1 is superior to that of the other QPUs.鈥
夜色直播 emerged as the clear leader, particularly in full connectivity, the most critical category for solving real-world optimization problems. Full connectivity is a huge comparative advantage, offering and more flexibility in both and . Our dominance in full connectivity鈥攗nattainable for platforms with natively limited connectivity鈥攗nderscores why we are the partner of choice in quantum computing.
Leading Across the Board
We seriously at 夜色直播. We lead in nearly every industry benchmark, from best-in-class gate fidelities to a 4000x lead in quantum volume, delivering top performance to our customers.
Our Quantum Charged-coupled Device (QCCD) architecture has been the foundation of our success, delivering consistent performance gains year-over-year. Unlike other architectures, QCCD offers all-to-all connectivity, world-record fidelities, and advanced features like real-time decoding. Altogether, it鈥檚 clear we have superior performance metrics across the board.
While many claim to be the best, we have the data to prove it. This table breaks down industry benchmarks, using the leading commercial spec for each quantum computing architecture.
TABLE 1. Leading commercial spec for each listed architecture or demonstrated capabilities on commercial hardware.
These metrics are the key to our success. They demonstrate why 夜色直播 is the only company delivering meaningful results to customers at a scale beyond classical simulation limits.
Our progress builds upon a series of 夜色直播鈥檚 technology breakthroughs, including the creation of the most reliable and highest-quality logical qubits, as well as solving the key scalability challenge associated with ion-trap quantum computers 鈥 culminating in a commercial system with greater than 99.9% two-qubit gate fidelity.
From our groundbreaking progress with System Model H2 to advances in quantum teleportation and solving the wiring problem, we鈥檙e taking major steps to tackle the challenges our whole industry faces, like execution speed and circuit depth. Advancements in parallel gate execution, faster ion transport, and high-rate quantum error correction (QEC) are just a few ways we鈥檙e maintaining our lead far ahead of the competition.
This commitment to excellence ensures that we not only meet but exceed expectations, setting the bar for reliability, innovation, and transformative quantum solutions.聽
Onward and Upward
To bring it back to the opening message: to be a leader means not just keeping pace with innovation but driving it forward. It means setting new standards that shape the future of quantum computing performance.
We are just months away from launching 夜色直播鈥檚 next generation system, Helios, which will be one trillion times more powerful than H2. By 2027, 夜色直播 will launch the industry鈥檚 first 100-logical-qubit system, featuring best-in-class error rates, and we are on track to deliver fault-tolerant computation on hundreds of logical qubits by the end of the decade.聽
The evidence speaks for itself: 夜色直播 is setting the standard in quantum computing. Our unrivaled specs, proven performance, and commitment to innovation make us the partner of choice for those serious about unlocking value with quantum computing. 夜色直播 is committed to doing the hard work required to continue setting the standard and delivering on our promises. This is 夜色直播. This is leadership.
Dr. Chris Langer is a Fellow, a key inventor and architect for the 夜色直播 hardware, and serves as an advisor to the CEO.
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About 夜色直播
夜色直播,聽the world鈥檚 largest integrated quantum company, pioneers powerful quantum computers and advanced software solutions. 夜色直播鈥檚 technology drives breakthroughs in materials discovery, cybersecurity, and next-gen quantum AI. With over 500 employees, including 370+ scientists and engineers, 夜色直播 leads the quantum computing revolution across continents.聽
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April 11, 2025
夜色直播鈥檚 partnership with RIKEN bears fruit
Last year, we joined forces with RIKEN, Japan's largest comprehensive research institution, to install our hardware at RIKEN鈥檚 campus in Wako, Saitama. This deployment is part of RIKEN鈥檚 project to build a quantum-HPC hybrid platform consisting of high-performance computing systems, such as the supercomputer Fugaku and 夜色直播 Systems. 聽
Today, marks the first of many breakthroughs coming from this international supercomputing partnership. The team from RIKEN and 夜色直播 joined up with researchers from Keio University to show that quantum information can be delocalized (scrambled) using a quantum circuit modeled after periodically driven systems. 聽
"Scrambling" of quantum information happens in many quantum systems, from those found in complex materials to black holes. 聽Understanding information scrambling will help researchers better understand things like thermalization and chaos, both of which have wide reaching implications.
To visualize scrambling, imagine a set of particles (say bits in a memory), where one particle holds specific information that you want to know. As time marches on, the quantum information will spread out across the other bits, making it harder and harder to recover the original information from local (few-bit) measurements.
While many classical techniques exist for studying complex scrambling dynamics, quantum computing has been known as a promising tool for these types of studies, due to its inherently quantum nature and ease with implementing quantum elements like entanglement. The joint team proved that to be true with their latest result, which shows that not only can scrambling states be generated on a quantum computer, but that they behave as expected and are ripe for further study.
Thanks to this new understanding, we now know that the preparation, verification, and application of a scrambling state, a key quantum information state, can be consistently realized using currently available quantum computers. Read the paper , and read more about our partnership with RIKEN here. 聽
Why is everyone suddenly talking about random numbers? We explain.
In our increasingly connected, data-driven world, cybersecurity threats are more frequent and sophisticated than ever. To safeguard modern life, government and business leaders are turning to quantum randomness.
What is quantum randomness, and why should you care?
The term to know: quantum random number generators (QRNGs).
QRNGs exploit quantum mechanics to generate truly random numbers, providing the highest level of cryptographic security. This supports, among many things:
Protection of personal data
Secure financial transactions
Safeguarding of sensitive communications
Prevention of unauthorized access to medical records
Quantum technologies, including QRNGs, could protect up to $1 trillion in digital assets annually, according to a recent by the World Economic Forum and Accenture.
Which industries will see the most value from quantum randomness?
The World Economic Forum report identifies five industry groups where QRNGs offer high business value and clear commercialization potential within the next few years. Those include:
Financial services
Information and communication technology
Chemicals and advanced materials
Energy and utilities
Pharmaceuticals and healthcare
In line with these trends, recent by The Quantum Insider projects the quantum security market will grow from approximately $0.7 billion today to $10 billion by 2030.
When will quantum randomness reach commercialization?
Quantum randomness is already being deployed commercially:
Early adopters use our Quantum Origin in data centers and smart devices.
Amid rising cybersecurity threats, demand is growing in regulated industries and critical infrastructure.
Recognizing the value of QRNGs, the financial services sector is accelerating its path to commercialization.
Last year, HSBC conducted a combining Quantum Origin and post-quantum cryptography to future-proof gold tokens against 鈥渟tore now, decrypt-later鈥 (SNDL) threats.
And, just last week, JPMorganChase made headlines by using our quantum computer for the first successful demonstration of certified randomness.
On the basis of the latter achievement, we aim to broaden our cybersecurity portfolio with the addition of a certified randomness product in 2025.
How is quantum randomness being regulated?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines the cryptographic regulations used in the U.S. and other countries.
NIST鈥檚 SP 800-90B framework assesses the quality of random number generators.
The framework is part of the FIPS 140 standard, which governs cryptographic systems operations.
Organizations must comply with FIPS 140 for their cryptographic products to be used in regulated environments.
This week, we announced Quantum Origin received , marking the first software QRNG approved for use in regulated industries.
What does NIST validation mean for our customers?
This means Quantum Origin is now available for high-security cryptographic systems and integrates seamlessly with NIST-approved solutions without requiring recertification.
Unlike hardware QRNGs, Quantum Origin requires no network connectivity, making it ideal for air-gapped systems.
For federal agencies, it complements our "U.S. Made" designation, easing deployment in critical infrastructure.
It adds further value for customers building hardware security modules, firewalls, PKIs, and IoT devices.
The NIST validation, combined with our peer-reviewed papers, further establishes Quantum Origin as the leading QRNG on the market. 聽
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It is paramount for governments, commercial enterprises, and critical infrastructure to stay ahead of evolving cybersecurity threats to maintain societal and economic security.
夜色直播 delivers the highest quality quantum randomness, enabling our customers to confront the most advanced cybersecurity challenges present today.
Being Useful Now 鈥 Quantum Computers and Scientific Discovery
The most common question in the public discourse around quantum computers has been, 鈥淲hen will they be useful?鈥 We have an answer.
Very recently in Nature we a successful demonstration of a quantum computer generating certifiable randomness, a critical underpinning of our modern digital infrastructure. We explained how we will be taking a product to market this year, based on that advance 鈥 one that could only be achieved because we have the world鈥檚 most powerful quantum computer.
Today, we have made another huge leap in a different domain, providing fresh evidence that our quantum computers are the best in the world. In this case, we have shown that our quantum computers can be a useful tool for advancing scientific discovery.
Understanding magnetism
Our latest shows how our quantum computer rivals the best classical approaches in expanding our understanding of magnetism. This provides an entry point that could lead directly to innovations in fields from biochemistry, to defense, to new materials. These are tangible and meaningful advances that will deliver real world impact.
To achieve this, we partnered with researchers from Caltech, Fermioniq, EPFL, and the Technical University of Munich. The team used 夜色直播鈥檚 System Model H2 to simulate quantum magnetism at a scale and level of accuracy that pushes the boundaries of what we know to be possible.
As the authors of the paper state:
鈥淲e believe the quantum data provided by System Model H2 should be regarded as complementary to classical numerical methods, and is arguably the most convincing standard to which they should be compared.鈥
Our computer simulated the quantum Ising model, a model for quantum magnetism that describes a set of magnets (physicists call them 鈥榮pins鈥) on a lattice that can point up or down, and prefer to point the same way as their neighbors. The model is inherently 鈥渜uantum鈥 because the spins can move between up and down configurations by a process known as 鈥渜uantum tunneling鈥. 聽
Gaining material insights
Researchers have struggled to simulate the dynamics of the Ising model at larger scales due to the enormous computational cost of doing so. Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, who is widely considered to be the progenitor of quantum computing, once said, 鈥.鈥 When attempting to simulate quantum systems at comparable scales on classical computers, the computational demands can quickly become overwhelming. It is the inherent 鈥榪uantumness鈥 of these problems that makes them so hard classically, and conversely, so well-suited for quantum computing.
These inherently quantum problems also lie at the heart of many complex and useful material properties. The quantum Ising model is an entry point to confront some of the deepest mysteries in the study of interacting quantum magnets. While rooted in fundamental physics, its relevance extends to wide-ranging commercial and defense applications, including medical test equipment, quantum sensors, and the study of exotic states of matter like superconductivity. 聽
Instead of tailored demonstrations that claim 鈥榪uantum advantage鈥 in contrived scenarios, our breakthroughs announced this week prove that wecan tackle complex, meaningful scientific questions difficult for classical methods to address. In the work described in this paper, we have proved that quantum computing could be the gold standard for materials simulations. These developments are critical steps toward realizing the potential of quantum computers.
With only 56 qubits in our commercially available System Model H2, the most powerful quantum system in the world today, we are already testing the limits of classical methods, and in some cases, exceeding them. Later this year, we will introduce our massively more powerful 96-qubit Helios system - breaching the boundaries of what until recently was deemed possible.