Fire Opal

Solve real-world problems on IonQ

Achieve meaningful results with Fire Opal error suppression and optimization software — no quantum circuit expertise required.

Access the best automatic error suppression natively on IonQ

With real-world applications in optimization, chemistry, materials science, and more, Fire Opal brings noise-aware performance management 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

Leading the way with Fire Opal’s QAOA Solver, you can define complex combinatorial problems like Max-Cut or MaxSAT, and execute them on IonQ hardware without writing quantum circuits manually. 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 run deeper circuits, and achieve more accuracy, faster. 

With Fire Opal on IonQ, you can run your use cases at peak performance. Let Fire Opal handle the quantum complexities while you focus on innovation.

Q-CTRL's world records show we are key to driving progress in quantum computing

33 qubits

World’s largest QPE demo

40 qubits

World’s longest-range gate teleportation

Achieving computational gains with quantum error-correction primitives: Generation of long-range entanglement enhanced by error detection.

75 qubits

World’s largest verifiable entangled state

Achieving computational gains with quantum error-correction primitives: Generation of long-range entanglement enhanced by error detection.

103 qubits

World largest constrained quantum optimisation

Quantum-enhanced rail scheduling with Network Rail using Fire Opal, accelerating the path to practical quantum advantage.

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 error suppression on IonQ on Amazon Braket. Fire Opal QAOA solver is only available on IonQ Quantum Cloud 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 to here.

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