Fire Opal

Unlock quantum optimization on IonQ

Achieve meaningful results with Fire Opal’s Optimization Solver — no quantum circuit expertise required.

Turn industrial challenges into viable solutions

With real-world applications in optimization, chemistry, materials science, and more, Fire Opal brings noise-resilient optimization directly to IonQ’s trapped ion processors, helping users abstract quantum hardware complexities and improve the success of algorithms by 1,000X.

By optimizing algorithms and reducing errors during runtime, Fire Opal lets you scale to larger problems: deeper circuits with more gates and qubits. At the same time, it delivers correct answers in fewer shots and with no additional overhead, reducing compute time and cost.

Layered diagram illustrating a quantum computing stack with five layers labeled: Hardware, System software stack, Embedded gate-level automation and error reduction, Error robust compilation and analysis, and Cloud interface.

Run quantum algorithms with ease

The Fire Opal Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) Solver lets you define complex combinatorial problems like Max-Cut or MaxSAT and execute them on IonQ hardware without manually writing quantum circuits. The solver automatically maps your problem to the hardware, optimizes circuit parameters, and automatically implements a comprehensive error-suppression pipeline with no manual adjustments, no settings, and no configuration required. This enables you to realize high-fidelity results and accelerate your time-to-solution for real-world optimization challenges.

With this native integration, Fire Opal helps you get the most out of your IonQ processor and handles the quantum complexities while you focus on innovation.

Getting started with Fire Opal QAOA Solver is simple

Contact Q-CTRL to get access

If you don’t have a Fire Opal account, fill out the form to get access to Fire Opal Optimization Solver.

Get your IonQ Quantum Cloud API key

Sign-in to your IonQ Quantum Cloud here. Follow IonQ’s guide to create an API key.

Start solving optimization problems

Need help? Refer to our Getting started notebook.

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33 qubits

World’s largest QPE demo

40 qubits

World’s longest-range gate teleportation

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75 qubits

World’s largest verifiable entangled state

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103 qubits

World largest constrained quantum optimisation

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127 qubits

World’s largest successful quantum optimization

Quantum optimization using a 127-qubit gate-model IBM quantum computer can outperform quantum annealers for nontrivial binary optimization problems.

Frequently asked questions

You can use Fire Opal performance management on IonQ via Amazon Braket. Fire Opal QAOA solver is only available on IonQ Cloud Access for now.

If you already have Fire Opal access, you will need to provide your  Fire Opal API key via IonQ’s API/SDK. If you don’t have Fire Opal access yet, you can sign up here. You will also need an IonQ Quantum Cloud account.

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