Pasqal and Cirq Deal

Pasqal has been collaborating with Google to give access to its technology through Cirq, an open-source framework dedicated to the development and implementation of quantum algorithms on arbitrary platforms. Pasqal’s API is currently able to run instances on an emulator, while the first processor is being built.

Company’s developers and end-users are working on  exploring the capabilities of its architecture and prepare for the upcoming quantum advantage. Each approach to quantum computing (atoms, ions, photons, superconducting circuits) is based on different concepts with an impact on the software stack, from the physical qubit up to the application. Some parts of the software are specific to the underlying physics, which makes it challenging for software programmers to acquire familiarity and confidence to make the best implementation decisions, ideally regardless of the underlying  platform.Strong interactions are generated on demand between atoms brought into highly excited states called Rydberg states. These interactions can be switched on and off with 12 orders of magnitude extinction within a highly connected pattern, and are at the heart of analog simulation and digital gate-based computing with this state of matter.

Its processors are highly scalable and, thanks to high connectivity between qubits, make quantum acceleration for real life application a credible perspective.Employing Cirq it means that they are joining a large and growing eco-system. There are other eco-systems such as qiskit, pyquil and Q (Microsoft) for example.

About Pasqal

Pasqal founded with the vision to leverage the technology developed at Institut d’Optique in Palaiseau (France) to build quantum processors out of neutral atoms in their excited Rydberg state, ordered in large 2D arrays. Pasqal’s purpose is to bring practical quantum advantage to its customers. Pasqal is backed by Quantonation, an early stage venture capital fund focusing on Deep Physics and Quantum Technologies.

About Cirq

Cirq is an open-source framework for Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum computers (NISQ). The Python based library allows writing, manipulating, and optimizing quantum circuits and running them on quantum computers and simulators.