The atomic-scale integrated circuit, which functions as an analog quantum processor, may be SQC's biggest milestone since it announced in 2012 that it had built the world's first single-atom transistor.
The company says the integrated circuit was successfully manufactured two years ahead of schedule. Its founder claims the new development indicates that we could be a mere 5 years away from seeing commercial quantum computing products.After manufacturing their atomic-scale circuit, the SQC team successfully used it to model the quantum states of a small, organized polyacetylene molecule.
In the statement, University of New South Wales Professor and SQC founder Michelle Simmon said"today's classical computers struggle to simulate even relatively small molecules due to the large number of possible interactions between atoms." "Development of SQC's atomic-scale circuit technology will allow the company and its customers to construct quantum models for a range of new materials, whether they be pharmaceuticals, materials for batteries, or catalysts," she continued."It won’t be long before we can start to realize new materials that have never existed before."
SQC says the integrated circuit delivers on a challenge postulated by pioneering theoretical physicist Professor Richard Feynman in 1959. He posited that to understand how nature works, you have to be able to control the matter from which it is constructed at the atomic scale.Simmons founded SQC in 2017 with $83 million in seed funding from UNSW, Telstra, Commonwealth Bank, and the NSW and federal governments.
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