Seminar - IBM’s recent progress on quantum computing development: Era of quantum utility

Title:

IBM’s recent progress on quantum computing development: Era of quantum utility

Abstract:

I would like to share IBM’s perspective on the current scientific and technological development of quantum computing capabilities. Nowadays, more users are exploring how to leverage quantum computing as a tool for scientific research or industry applications. In 2023, IBM has demonstrated that with 127-qubit Eagle processor and error mitigation techniques, we can execute quantum circuits outside the reach of classical exact computing methods – the beginning of quantum utility. I will review what we have achieved with 127-qubit Eagle, and will introduce our recent processor, “Heron”, which uses tunable couplers with minimum crosstalk errors that allow 1800 entangling gates even without error mitigation. The Heron processor powers IBM Quantum System Two, our modular, extensible quantum computing architecture for the future of quantum computing. I will describe the updated IBM Quantum Development Roadmap up to 2030+ and share with the vision how we scale our quantum computing systems in the coming years. IBM’s goal is to provide powerful, yet simple quantum computing environment for users to easily integrate quantum computing into existing workflows. I will conclude by sharing my vision of quantum-centric supercomputing, the vision we think as the future of computing where the orchestration between classical computing resources such as CPUs and GPUs together with multiple quantum processors, forms a composite architecture that allows for scaling quantum computation to sizes amenable to industry scale problems on the order of tens of thousands of qubits. The quantum-centric supercomputing will be operated in quantum serverless that helps the users to use all computing resources seamlessly.

Bio

Dr. Jay M. Gambetta is the Vice President in charge of IBM’s overall Quantum initiative. He was named as an IBM Fellow in 2018 for his leadership in advancing superconducting quantum computing and establishing IBM’s quantum strategy to bring quantum computing to the world, and to make the world quantum safe.

Under his leadership, IBM was first to demonstrate a cloud-based quantum computing platform; a platform that has grown to become the predominant quantum service utilized by 575,000 users to run over 3 trillion quantum circuits. These users include 287 members of the IBM Quantum Network, representing forward-thinking academic, industry, and governmental organizations focused on building a quantum-native ecosystem. IBM Quantum continues to expand in the market by providing Quantum as a Service utilizing the IBM Quantum System One and Two series of devices with over 20 quantum systems available online, building the foundations of the quantum industry. In addition, he was responsible for the creation and early development of Qiskit; the leading open-source quantum computing software development kit, allowing users to build, optimize, and execute quantum circuits on hardware from a multitude of quantum service providers.

Dr. Gambetta received his Ph.D. in Physics from Griffith University in Australia. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, IEEE Fellow, and has over 130 publications in the field of quantum information science with over 37,000 citations.

Host:

Prof. Kae Nemoto