“We are seeing that we can unlock extra performance in the hardware, and make it do things that people didn’t expect.”
Michael Biercuk, a quantum physicist at the University of Sydney in Australia, who is chief executive and founder of Sydney-based start-up firm Q-CTRL, says such operational tweaks are ripe for exploration. Biercuk’s work aims to dig deeper into the interfaces between the quantum circuits and the classical computers used to control them, as well as understand the details of other components that make up a quantum computer. There is a “lot of space left on the table”, he says; early reports of errors and limitations have been naive and simplistic. “We are seeing that we can unlock extra performance in the hardware, and make it do things that people didn’t expect.”