Quantum computing is a branch of computing that focuses on building computer technology based on quantum theory ideas (which explains the behaviour of energy and material on the atomic and subatomic levels).
At the atomic level, quantum computing simulates nature, which could aid in the development of new materials or chemical compounds for medication discovery. It has the potential to solve issues that would take a typical computer a billion years to solve in seconds. Quantum computing can help by solving equations that impede progress in deriving a precise model of molecules. This breakthrough can revolutionize biology, chemistry, and material science.
1. Microsoft Quantum Computing
Microsoft Quantum Computing conducts experimental and theoretical processes to build quantum computers in collaboration with academic and research organizations worldwide, employing academics, theorists, and physicists from mathematics, physics, and computer science. The goal is to gain a better understanding of quantum computing, as well as its implementations and integration.
2. ColdQuanta
ColdQuanta creates one-of-a-kind technologies that enable ultracold-atom-based quantum devices and related quantum research and development, fueled by a busy pipeline of federally and commercially sponsored quantum science and quantum device research and development. Strategic product development at ColdQuanta focuses on secure quantum communications networks, quantum inertial sensing and navigation, radiofrequency (RF) sensing, and quantum information system applications.
3. Zapata Computing
Zapata Computing provides industrial and commercial computing solutions with quantum computing. It offers hardware-independent simulation, optimization, and machine learning solutions for applications in chemistry, finance, logistics, pharmaceuticals, engineering, and materials. Orquestra(R) by Zapata combines a powerful software platform with quantum algorithm libraries to enable real-world increases in computational capacity for applications such as machine learning, optimization, and chemistry.
4. 1QBit
1QB Information Technologies, Inc. (1QBit) is a Vancouver, British Columbia-based quantum computing software startup. 1QBit was launched on December 1, 2012[1] and has hardware agreements with Microsoft, IBM, Fujitsu, and D-Wave Systems. [2] While 1QBit creates general-purpose algorithms for quantum computing hardware, the organization’s primary interests are in computational finance, materials science, quantum chemistry, and life sciences.
5. QC Ware
QC Ware creates enterprise software for quantum computers that is hardware agnostic. The company’s quantum computing software handles combinatorial optimization and machine learning challenges with an efficiency that traditional HPC solutions cannot match. Matt Johnson, KJ Sham, and Randall Correll developed QC Ware in 2014 after meeting a group of quantum computing experts at NASA Ames.
6. D-Wave Solutions
D-Wave Systems Inc. is a Canadian quantum computing firm headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia. D-Wave was the first firm in the world to sell computers that used quantum effects in their operation. Lockheed Martin, the University of Southern California, Google/NASA, and Los Alamos National Laboratory were among D-early Wave’s customers.
7. IBM
IBM recently unveiled specific roadmaps for quantum computing, including a method for scaling quantum hardware to enable sophisticated quantum circuits to achieve Quantum Advantage, the point at which quantum systems outperform their classical counterparts measurably. Eagle is the most recent stage in this upward trajectory.
8. Honeywell
Honeywell Quantum Solutions has created the world’s most powerful trapped-ion quantum computers, and Cambridge Quantum is the global leader in software and algorithms utilised across many quantum platforms. Honeywell has recently made a significant investment in a technology known as trapped ion quantum computing. This approach employs the movement of ions suspended in space to transfer data.
9. Xanadu
Christian Weedbrook started Xanadu in 2016 and was a participant in the Creative Destruction Lab’s accelerator programme. Xanadu Quantum Technologies is a Toronto-based Canadian quantum computing hardware and software business. The company creates open-source software for quantum machine learning and simulating quantum photonic devices, as well as cloud-accessible photonic quantum computers.
10. Regetti
Rigetti Computing is a Berkeley, California-based company that creates quantum integrated circuits for use in quantum computers. Forest, a cloud platform that allows programmers to design quantum algorithms, is also developed by the business. Chad Rigetti, a physicist who formerly worked on quantum computers at IBM and studied under famed Yale quantum scientist Michel Devoret, established Rigetti Computing in 2013.
