Xanadu Achieves Quantum Advantage with Boraelis

Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor made in Canada. (June 1st, 2022).

Quantum physicists (left to right) Fabien Rortais, Mohsen Falamarzi Askarani, Lars Madsen, Jonathan Lavoie and Fabian Laudenbach share a laugh at Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. in Toronto. Behind them is Borealis, one of the first quantum computers in the world to demonstrate an advantage over conventional computer systems.

Hey Guys,

Xanadu has demonstrated quantum computational advantage using Borealis, their newest photonic quantum computer. Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. is a Canadian quantum technology company, and one of the world's leading photonic quantum hardware providers.

Quantum Advantage Using Light

To understand their latest announcement, I suggest you watch the video here.

Some analysts and PR are calling this a new milestone in the world of quantum computing, in what is described as a “big leap forward” for the industry (Globe and Mail).

Today, enterprises and researchers can begin using Xanadu's photonic quantum computers through the Xanadu Quantum Cloud (XQC) service and Strawberry Fields application library.

Borealis by Xanadu

Borealis is the first photonic quantum computer offering full programmability of all its gates to demonstrate quantum computational advantage, and the first time that a machine capable of quantum advantage has been made available to the public in the cloud.

This achievement, recently published in Nature, is a significant milestone on the path to building a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, and a pivotal step in Xanadu’s mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. It’s also just great for Quantum computing awareness in Canada, as Toronto like I have suggested is on pace to become a significant hub in the technology.

What is Quantum Advantage

Quantum computational advantage is achieved when a quantum computer outperforms the world’s fastest supercomputers, running the best-known algorithms, on a well-defined task. Borealis synthesizes a quantum state of 216 squeezed-state qubits, entangled in three dimensions according to the user’s specified program.

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