Inside Q-CTRL

The community faces the challenge and opportunity of efficiently integrating quantum firmware into their developing quantum computing stacks. Trusting speci...

Q-CTRL has been working hard to expand access to and the impact of quantum control.  In our recent technical manuscript we laid out the primary laboratory va...

How Q-CTRL is leveraging best practice in the computer engineering community to help accelerate the pathway to the first useful quantum computers.

2019 was a significant year for the quantum computing industry, and 2020 is poised to be even bigger. In our latest blog post, Q-CTRL’s founder and CEO Micha...

What does the news that Google has achieved "quantum supremacy" mean in a practical sense?

Last week our Founder and CEO, Michael J Biercuk, attended the IBM Q Summit in Yorktown Heights.

Things are getting real in the quantum technology space. And as quantum computing matures, the need for solutions helping to achieve high-performance control...

This week we highlight a paper jointly written by IBM Research in New York and Q-CTRL in Sydney that sets out to standardize quantum software user-interfaces...

Q-CTRL's chief executive and founder, Professor Michael Biercuk, this week was a guest at one of Asia's most important leadership conferences, the Singapore ...

Now that the alpha release of BLACK OPAL is out, at Q-CTRL we are hard at work ensuring that the public release of the world's first cloud-based quantum cont...

The Q-CTRL office was buzzing when I sat down with some of the team to discuss the successful alpha launch of BLACK OPAL, the company's first product.

When will quantum computers be ready for business? Will they be useful? How can we benefit from them? And how can we build a quantum economy?

At Q-CTRL we are obviously deadly serious about our science. We want to help you extract maximum performance from your quantum hardware. But scientific excel...

Computational innovation has moved far beyond developing the next killer app. The new frontiers of information technology are in artificial intelligence, blo...

Australia's first quantum technology start-up completes initial seed round. Three global technology funding giants have invested in Q-CTRL, Australia’s first...

The journey to realizing functional quantum computers will be long and it's a path that Q-CTRL is committed to making as easy as possible for you.

We know that quantum bits - the heart of quantum technology - are tricky beasts. They are sensitive, easily knocked out of their quantum state due to interfe...

The BLACK OPAL suite is coming to the public soon and we wanted to share a bit of insight about the architectural approach we've taken in designing our produ...

This blog has looked at some of the great technical work being done by our quantum control engineers led by Dr Michael Hush. We've seen how their team has ta...

How are we going to scale-up quantum computing so that it can do something useful? Right now this question is driving research and engineering teams across t...

Two-qubit gates are really the top pain point for most teams working in quantum computing. Right now they dominate error rates in quantum hardware but there ...

Central to all Q-CTRL solutions is the idea that being able to control your quantum system is more important than its apparent "inherent" stability in isolat...

Small start-ups like ours rely on brilliant hires. Few come more brilliant than Claire Edmunds, one of our Quantum Control Engineers. Claire can often be fou...

When conducting a criminal investigation, discovering a fingerprint can help identify the culprit. Q-CTRL is creating tools to help manufacturers of quantum ...

The global quantum community is a growing scientific space. Increasingly it is becoming a vibrant business community. Q-CTRL is happy to be one of the first ...

At Q-CTRL we've had a great week. Our collaboration with IBM was announced last Thursday at the inaugural IBM Q Summit Silicon Valley in Menlo Park, California.

Welcome to the first Q-CTRL newsletter, a regular missive where we'll be covering what's new and exciting in quantum tech. We'll let you look under the hood ...