Quantum computing startup Pasqal employs Google backed Cirq framework

April 28, 2020 by Rusty Flint

Pasqal works on building Quantum computing hardware and was founded in 2019 to exploit the technology developed by the Institute of Options in France. Its technology uses large 2D arrays of neutral atoms to form its qubits. Pasqal’s latest announcement states its intention to work with the cirq quantum computing framework which is open-source but backed by one of the largest players in Quantum Computing: Google.

We are delighted to provide such an intuitive and effective interface between our quantum computing hardware and software developers all over the world. This will greatly benefit the emergence of a global quantum ecosystem that is necessary for this new industry to thrive.”
Pasqal CEO Dr. Georges-Olivier Reymond

Quantum computing startup Pasqal employs Google backed Cirq framework — Google Backed Quantum Framework: Cirq

Pasqal has collaborated with Google to give access to its technology through Cirq, an open-source framework that can work across a number of hardware platforms. Pasqal’s API is currently able to run instances on an emulator, while the first processor is being built. Buy employing cirq it means that they are joining a large and growing eco-system. There are other eco-systems such as qiskit, pyquil and Q (Microsoft) for example.

About Pasqal

Pasqal was founded recently 2019. Pasqal is funded by Quantonation, a Paris based VC fund focusing on Deep Physics and Quantum Technologies.

About Cirq

Cirq is an open-source framework for Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum computers (NISQ). The Python based library allows writing, manipulating, and optimizing quantum circuits and running them on quantum computers and simulators.

Rusty Flint

Rusty is a science nerd. He's been into science all his life, but spent his formative years doing less academic things. Now he turns his attention to write about his passion, the quantum realm. He loves all things Physics especially. Rusty likes the more esoteric side of Quantum Computing and the Quantum world. Everything from Quantum Entanglement to Quantum Physics. Rusty thinks that we are in the 1950s quantum equivalent of the classical computing world. While other quantum journalists focus on IBM's latest chip or which startup just raised $50 million, Rusty's over here writing 3,000-word deep dives on whether quantum entanglement might explain why you sometimes think about someone right before they text you. (Spoiler: it doesn't, but the exploration is fascinating.