QuEra Computing
Machines in the Atlas (4)
- Aquila — DEPLOYED, 256 q, Nov 2022
- Gemini-class — DEPLOYED, 260 q, 2025
- 448-atom fault-tolerant processor — DEMONSTRATED, 448 q, 10 Nov 2025
- Libra — PLANNED, 10,000 q, 2028 (Amazon Braket)
Technologies its machines use
- Alkali atom (Rb/Cs) in optical tweezers · 4
- Atom transport by AOD tweezers (zoned architecture) · 4
- Laser + AOD/SLM optical control (atoms) · 4
- Fluorescence imaging of atom arrays · 4
- Optical / mechanical assembly (lasers, vacuum, objectives) · 4
- Hyperfine / clock-state qubit · 3
- Rydberg-blockade CZ · 3
- High-rate concatenated codes with transversal gates · 3
- Correlated / loss-aware decoding (transversal, atom loss) · 3
- Colour code (transversal Cliffords) · 2
- Algorithmic FT / transversal architectures · 2
- Magic-state factory (cultivation / distillation / code switching) · 2
Architectures
- Rydberg tweezer array — alkali (Rb/Cs)
- Neutral-atom analogue simulator (Rydberg arrays, lattice gases)
Mentioned in the briefs of
- Analogue Rydberg Hamiltonian evolution
- Alkali atom (Rb/Cs) in optical tweezers
- Algorithmic FT / transversal architectures
- Rydberg-blockade CZ
- Correlated / loss-aware decoding (transversal, atom loss)
- Ground–Rydberg analogue qubit
- Quantum annealing (analogue evolution)
- Magic-state factory (cultivation / distillation / code switching)
- Atom transport by AOD tweezers (zoned architecture)
- Laser + AOD/SLM optical control (atoms)
- Colour code (transversal Cliffords)
- Erasure-adapted codes
- Fluorescence imaging of atom arrays
- High-rate concatenated codes with transversal gates
- Optical / mechanical assembly (lasers, vacuum, objectives)
- Continuous atom reloading (reservoir + optical conveyor belt)
- Alkaline-earth(-like) atom (Yb/Sr) — erasure-native
- Metastable ('omg') erasure encoding
- Rotated surface code (+ yoked variants)
- Non-local qLDPC codes (bivariate bicycle, 'gross')
- Neural decoders (AlphaQubit 2, CNN, transformers)
- PIC-generated tweezers / integrated optics for atoms
- GPU decoding via NVQLink
- In-loop RL calibration / control steering
- Atom–photon cavity interface
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