Alice & Bob

Entering the right rooms at the right time! 🏛️🐈 At the QED-C® Quantum Summit in the heart of Washington, D.C. 🇺🇸, Alice & Bob was alongside the people who are shaping what comes next for quantum💡, from industry leaders to policymakers and investors and we were honored to be there to say the least! Highlight: Juliette Peyronnet, our U.S. General Manager, had the great opportunity to speak with Darío Gil, Under Secretary for Science and Genesis Mission Director, U.S. Department of Energy, and one of the key figures shaping major science and technology programs in the country - about quantum co-processors and how they could integrate into real HPC systems. 🖥️⚙️ She also joined the Industry Leadership Forum panel alongside NVIDIA, D-Wave, Infleqtion, and Deep33. The discussion focused on where things stand today: commercialization, capital allocation, and early signs of traction 📊 Questions around the usefulness of quantum came up, and here is our take: Usefulness will not come from scale alone, but from how quantum is integrated into existing workflows. We already see concrete paths forward, for example in quantum chemistry, where HPC handles most of the pipeline and fault-tolerant QPUs step in on the hardest parts like energy estimation. It is a division of labor, not a replacement. ⚛️ Encouraging to see the conversation moving in that direction 🚀 Elica (Elitsa) Kyoseva, Alan Baratz, Matthew Kinsella, Joab Rosenberg, Luiza Savage #QuantumComputing #Quantum

We said we were building production infrastructure. Now, that chapter is coming to life. 🚀🏭 Here, one of the largest quantum labs in Europe, is where we'll turn our cat-qubit prototypes into useful quantum computers. ⚛️ That means testing more chips, faster, so we can build bigger, better systems that are ready for the real world. And, we're building the teams who can run it: engineers who turn physics into process, and research into product. 🧠🔁 🎬 Let Antoine, Jeanne, Tarek, Lilia, Antonio, and Matthieu take you behind the scenes of quantum engineering at Alice & Bob, at the infrastructure scale. ⚙️ Full video here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/e4waGhVc 💡For more on why we built this lab, and where it fits in our journey: 👉https://lnkd.in/dXVSM7RM More to come. Watch this space! #QuantumComputing #QuantumLab #CatQubits

The chip is just part of the story. 🔬⚛️ It's about making the whole system work. The fridge, the control electronics, the cabling, the entire environment around it... every layer has to come together. At that point, it’s no longer a small lab experiment. It’s systems engineering. 🎛️🧠 🎞️ Watch the full video: 👉 https://lnkd.in/e4waGhVc #QuantumComputing #QuantumEngineering #FTQC

Useful quantum computing is the next moonshot. Now it's time to build the rocket. ⚛️🌑🔧 At Alice & Bob, we spent our early years controlling a single cat qubit 🐈⬛, understanding its physics. Now the challenge is to scale these systems, and that’s a serious engineering problem. Day to day, that means tweaking a chip design again and again, aligning components that shrink when you cool them to temperatures lower than parts of outer space, or tuning signals with absurd precision. 🧠🔩 No one does it alone. Now we’re nearly 250 people, 30 nationalities, tackling one of the biggest challenges today: building a useful quantum computer. Hear about it from the team. 🎥 Full video here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/e4waGhVc #quantumcomputing #quantumphysics #quantumlab #deeptech

Energy innovation needs new physics, and that’s where quantum comes in. ⚡️🐱 At this year’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Energy Innovation Summit, we got to bring that conversation to life on the expo floor. ⚛️🚀 One highlight: a visit from Darío Gil, Under Secretary for Science and Innovation at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Director of the Genesis Mission, and Jyotsna Sharma, ARPA-E's QC3 Program Director. We walked them through our cat qubit tech and talked about our recent $3.9M award from the QC3 program. 🐈⬛⚙️ Our project aims to discover more sustainable magnets without rare earth elements. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gmCwdH4p ⚡️🧲 It was also great to see quantum taking up a lot more space at the Summit than last year, it definitely felt like momentum is building. ✨ Dario Gil's keynote was all about quantum computing’s potential, and how bringing quantum, HPC and AI together is key to the next wave of scientific breakthroughs. That’s what the US Genesis Mission is about: building a shared platform across these technologies, with the goal of doubling scientific productivity in a decade. 💡 📈 On the exhibitor floor, quantum was hard to miss: QC program exhibitors like Alice & Bob, Infleqtion, and Phasecraft drew a lot of traffic. 👀 We talked about: • Fundamental questions about quantum computing and its applications for energy 🤓 • Big curiosity about the physical realities of quantum 🧊 • The energy footprint of running quantum computers Great to be part of these conversations about the future of energy, and to keep working to make quantum a practical tool for hard challenges. 🌍💪

Who is Alice? Who is Bob? 🧐 Not our founders. Definitely not random. If you’ve crossed paths with them before, you already know there’s more to the story. If not… you’re about to 🕶️ -> https://bit.ly/4tEgEGv #QuantumComputing #Physics #DeepTech #Cryptography #QuantumPhysics #STEM #TechCulture #AliceAndBob

A cat. A box. Poison.🐈📦🧪 Except… what if the cat never stayed in the box? 👀 Suppose he's been around longer than you'd think, making his way through experiments, turning up where things become… interesting, and eventually ending up with us. Here’s the true story of Schrödinger’s cat as it’s never been told before 😏 You may wish to meet him 🤓 -> https://bit.ly/4vqJpZe #Physics #QuantumComputing #DeepTech #ThoughtExperiment #LabLife #SchrodingersCat

For this year’s birthday, we gifted ourselves... ✨ A new wordmark ✨ We didn’t really plan the timing, but birthdays have a way of sending you digging through old photos or in our case, logos. From a small lab to 238 people today, we’ve had a few versions along the way. If you want the fun details (yes, there’s physics in there, from tensor-product symbols to what that yellow circle actually is 🤨), this blog’s worth a read 👉 https://bit.ly/4t6iVL6 This one feels feels stronger, bolder, and more us. 😎 #logochange #quantumbranding #quantumcomputing #branding

Happy 6th birthday to us! 🎂 Six years of... Working on some very hard yet rewarding science. ⚛️ Building, exploring, learning. 🔁 Breeding cats (regrettably, still just the quantum kind). 🐈⬛ All in all, it’s been a pretty wild journey! ⚡ We kicked things off with a Townhall. Lots of energy, milestones, and a good reminder of how much is happening across teams.🍿 Then we had a party. 🥳 Once upon a time, we could all fit in one small room, now we need 5x the space and actual event organizers! To many more. 🥂 Watch this space! 👀 🚀

What if simulating a new magnetic material took a day instead of decades? ⚡⏰ We’ve just been awarded $3.9M from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to work toward exactly that. 🔬🧪 Together with Los Alamos National Laboratory, GE Vernova’s Advanced Research accelerator, and the research group of Professor Emanuel Gull (Visiting Professor at the University of Warsaw and Professor at the University of Michigan) we’ll build quantum–classical algorithms aimed at discovering more sustainable, rare-earth-free magnetic materials. 🧲🌱 Such materials are notoriously hard to simulate because their electrons are strongly correlated and don’t behave independently. That’s where quantum comes in: handling the correlated physics, while classical methods take care of the rest. ⚛️ We’re targeting a 10 000× speed-up over today’s best methods, to bring decade-long computations down to about a day. Each partner will bring a key piece: • Los Alamos National Laboratory: tensor network tools to optimize quantum circuits. • Research group of Professor Emanuel Gull: classical algorithms to pair with Alice & Bob’s quantum algorithms. • GE Vernova: testing the real-world economics of the materials we find. This is an exciting step toward making quantum computing a practical and useful tool for industrial materials design. 🚀🧠 #quantumcomputing #materialsdesign #hybridalgorithms #FTQC