Inside Q-CTRL

Q-CTRL were excited to be one of the major sponsors of QCHack, which provided us with the opportunity to reach the next generation of quantum computing scien...

2020 seemed to go by in the blink of an eye and it was that time of year again, APS March Meeting. We were disappointed that once again we were not able to s...

Last month Dr Michael Hush, Chief Scientific Officer at Q-CTRL and Dr Yuval Baum, Lead Quantum Automation Scientist at Q-CTRL hosted our automated closed-loo...

The Q-CTRL back-end engineering team outline how they handle development environments and deployments at Q-CTRL.

Q-CTRL develops quantum control software to solve the hardest problems facing quantum technology, improving hardware performance and accelerating pathways to...

We’re excited to announce that Q-CTRL is one of the first commercial partners with leveraging Rigetti’s Quil-T, an extension to their quantum instruction lan...

Google recently announced the release of TensorFlow Quantum - a toolset for combining state-of-the-art machine learning techniques with quantum algorithm des...

Join Michael Biercuk and Andre Carvalho as they talk about quantum control and the scalability of quantum computers.

In this blog post we describe a collaborative effort between Q-CTRL and IBM to generate and validate error-robust quantum logic operations using Q-CTRL’s BOU...

The Q-CTRL Back-end Engineering team recounts their experience attending the PyCon AU 2020 conference - including their insights into what they found to be t...

Q-CTRL has invested to preserve the best parts of a research-focused career while discarding the painful aspects of academia. We’re growing fast and would lo...

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?

In July 2019 Q-CTRL Founder and CEO, Prof. Michael J. Biercuk spoke at the Quantum Error Correction 2019 Conference in London. He joined a fantastic program...

Congratulations to our founder & CEO, Professor Michael J Biercuk on being announced as a Finalist in the 2019 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for ‘Promoting ...

The team at Q-CTRL is very excited to announce big changes coming to BLACK OPAL - so many that we've given them a new version number!

Recent tests have shown that the Q-CTRL cloud architecture allows complex optimization tasks to run ~9x faster than on a standalone machine, reducing compute...

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

Australia's first venture-capital backed quantum technology startup, Q-CTRL, will today release a new open-source library, putting the power of quantum contr...

Sydney quantum computing startup, Q-CTRL, will unveil a set of new "quantum firmware" techniques at the American Physical Society on Friday 8 March, in Bosto...

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

Scientists and engineers the world over are working to build a new generation of technologies based on the rules of quantum physics. Amazingly, these rules, ...

World-first commercial product targets the toughest problems in quantum computing.

Professor Michael Biercuk, founder and CEO of Q-CTRL, has hit go on the Open Beta stage for BLACK OPAL, our groundbreaking quantum control software package.

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.

Q-CTRL is today joining the IBM Q Network, a global community of corporations and startups with access to IBM's commercial quantum computing systems.

Noise is everywhere. Planes in the air, neighbors blaring music and kids playing in the backyard. It is impossible to get any work done when it's too noisy. ...

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 ...