The Architect platform, developed by Quantum Design Oxford in partnership with Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) and Quantum Machines, is an open-stack quantum computer training platform that democratises access to real quantum hardware by offering technical colleges, universities, research labs, and enterprise R&D teams the opportunity of hands-on, technical training.
Architect empowers users to gain both theoretical and practical quantum skills. With its open-stack design, Architect offers unique opportunities for workforce development and accessible, flexible training tools to meet the increasing demand for a skilled workforce to support quantum computing and help bridge the quantum skills gap.
Users can not only run qubit calibrations and setups, but uniquely to Architect can also gain specific hardware experience that will enable them to install, maintain and troubleshoot the quantum computers of the future.
Architect integrates Quantum Design Oxford's ProteoxMX dilution refrigerator, OQC's proven Lucy Gen2 8-qubit quantum processor and Quantum Machines' OPX1000 high-density hybrid control platform.
It provides a fully open-stack design, allowing users to experiment with the whole quantum computing stack - not just algorithms - offering flexibility for training on everything from validating QPU control wiring, setting up and cooling the dilution fridge, to executing quantum circuits on a real QPU – a true end-to-end experience.
The ProteoxMX dilution refrigerator is core to the open-stack, open-architecture approach with its unique side-loading Secondary Insert allowing QPU wiring to be installed and tested off-system, offering a new level of flexibility in learning and making Architect the premier solution for technical training. Multiple Secondary Inserts can be worked on using, for example, different RF coax wiring types.
Architect uses the latest iteration of OQC's 8-qubit quantum processor unit (QPU) – the Lucy GEN 2 superconducting circuit, universal gate-based QPU.
| T1 median | 70 µs (+/- 10%) |
| T2E median | 90 µs (+/- 10%) |
| 1Q gate fidelity median | 99.9% |
| 2Q gate fidelity | Best 99%, median, 97% |
Find out more at https://oqc.tech/resources/beyond-the-bit/lucy-quantum-leap/
Architect features Quantum Machines' OPX1000 modular high-density quantum controller, including room temperature cabling, to enable qubit measurement and calibration routines, so that students can see and test the results of their work. This includes required APIs for access, plus standard libraries of code for experiments, so that trainees can easily implement complex quantum sequences with precise control of timing and alignment of qubit operations.
Find out more at https://www.quantum-machines.co/products/opx1000/
Want to add a different QPU? Architect enables that via its open-stack architecture. The Proteox design allows for a Secondary Insert fully-wired for the Lucy GEN2 QPU to be seamlessly swapped for a Secondary Insert with wiring for a second QPU type.
Want to upgrade the Quantum Machines OPX1000 controller for more channels? The OPX1000 is fully scalable and upgradeable.
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