Company presents new IonQ Aria quantum computer and the #AQ performance benchmark at premier quantum computing conference
COLLEGE PARK, MD--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IONQ (NYSE: IONQ), a leader in quantum computing, today announced its participation as a platinum sponsor of the 25th Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP). The event, taking place at the California Institute of Technology on March 7-11, 2022, is the premier annual conference for theoretical quantum information research.
Luning Zhao, a senior applications engineer at IonQ, will provide an address describing the performance of the company's latest and most advanced quantum computer, the IonQ Aria. Zhao will also introduce the quantum community to algorithmic qubits (#AQ), a new single-number, performance-based benchmark for rating the usefulness of quantum computers.
IonQ has adopted #AQ as its primary benchmark to tell customers how well a quantum computer can accurately run useful algorithms. This single-number metric is derived from algorithmic benchmarking protocols recently established in an independent industry-wide study conducted by the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C). Zhao will describe the committee's work on developing its new benchmarking suite and how IonQ used that work to build a simple score.
Zhao will discuss how the IonQ Aria has cemented its lead as the most powerful quantum computer in the industry based on standard application-oriented industry benchmarks. With an #AQ of 20, the IonQ Aria is able to successfully execute quantum circuits containing more than 550 gates, compared to superconducting systems that can only execute dozens of circuits. This enables IonQ to far exceed peers in the practical use of quantum algorithms.
Dominic Widow, a senior principal scientist at IONQ, will also present his team's research on quantum natural language processing (NLP). Much of the mathematics behind search engines and language processing is similar to the mathematics used in quantum mechanics. Rather than simply borrowing mathematical models from quantum theory, as NLP researchers have done in the past, Widow and her colleagues are creating the NLP models that run on quantum computers today.
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IonQ, Inc. A leader in quantum computing with a proven track record of innovation and deployment. IonQ's latest generation quantum computer, the IonQ Aria, is the world's most powerful quantum computer, and IonQ has defined what it believes is the best path to scale.
IonQ is the only company whose quantum systems are available through the cloud as well as direct API access on Amazon Braket, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. IonQ was founded in 2015 by Christopher Munro and Jungsang Kim based on 25 years of pioneering research. Visit www.ionq.com to learn more.
About QIP
The Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) is an annual conference about quantum computation and information. It aims to represent the best research of the past year in the field, both in the form of plenary talks and submitted papers.
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