Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a European-based Quantum Computing company, the creator of Lucy, an 8-qubit quantum computer, has been kept cool for a year thanks to dilution refrigerator technology. Lucy has consistently supported customers via its private and public Quantum Compute-as-a-Service (QCaaS) platform.
“That Lucy has been up and running for a year, accessible to customers globally, is significant not only for what it shows we can already achieve but for what it promises for the future of quantum scaling and deployment.”
Stuart Woods, Managing Director of Oxford Instruments NanoScience,
A year of dependably cold quantum computing is an essential milestone unlocked for OQC, Oxford Instruments, and the UK quantum sector as it moves forward to commercialization. Following the launch of Lucy, OQC became the first company in Europe to be featured on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in February 2022. AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and widely used cloud platform, providing over 200 fully featured services from data centers worldwide. OQC Lucy has achieved 98+% uptime on AWS for the entire year.
The major issue of superconducting circuits for quantum computation is the ability to grow qubit numbers while retaining qubit quality and control to achieve a commercially reasonable level of processing power. To send control wiring across the semiconductor to the qubit in many ‘conventional’ 2D quantum circuits, increasingly complicated architecture is required.
The ProteoxMX Platform
The ProteoxMX cryogenic environment provided by Oxford Instruments NanoScience, a global pioneer in dilution refrigerator technology, has been a trusted and unwavering partner in this achievement. Proteox is a next-generation cryo-free system with unprecedented versatility and adaptability for ultra-low temperature studies in condensed matter physics and quantum computing industrialization.
The Proteox platform was created to give a single, interchangeable modular solution that can handle numerous users and a wide range of setups or experiments while also allowing for remote management.
The dilution Refrigeration system has made it all possible
Lucy, named after German physicist and quantum mechanics pioneer Lucy Mensing, employs OQC’s proprietary 3D architecture, the Coaxmon, to address this difficulty by combining exceptional scalability with world-class performance.
Oxford Instruments dilution refrigerator has been a dependable companion for OQC, keeping Lucy cool and combining Coaxmon technology with ProteoxMX’s Secondary Insert design, allowing for straightforward integration of signal conditioning components and wiring and insert-modularity.
“With Lucy, we have pushed the boundaries of what is possible and taken important steps to bring quantum computing to the enterprise mainstream.”
Ilana Wisby, CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits