Xanadu Quantum Technologies

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Xanadu Quantum Technologies
TypePrivate
IndustryQuantum Computing
Founded2016
FounderChristian Weedbrook, CEO
HeadquartersToronto, Canada
Websitexanadu.ai

Xanadu Quantum Technologies is a Canadian quantum computing hardware and software company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.[1][2][3] The company develops cloud accessible photonic quantum computers[4][5][6][7] and develops open-source software for quantum machine learning and simulating quantum photonic devices.[8][9][10]

History[]

Xanadu was founded in 2016 by Christian Weedbrook and was a participant in the Creative Destruction Lab's accelerator program. Since then, Xanadu has raised a total of US$145M in funding with venture capital financing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Capricorn Investment Group, Tiger Global Management, In-Q-Tel, Business Development Bank of Canada, OMERS Ventures, Georgian, Real Ventures, Golden Ventures and Radical Ventures[11][12][13][14][15] and innovation grants from Sustainable Development Technology Canada[16][17][18][19] and DARPA.[20]

Technology[]

Xanadu's hardware efforts have been focused on developing programmable Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) devices. GBS is a generalization of Boson Sampling, which traditionally uses single photons as an input; GBS uses squeezed states of light.[21][22][23][24][25][26] In 2020, Xanadu published a blueprint for building a fault-tolerant quantum computer using photonic technology.[27]

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  25. ^ Bromley, Thomas R.; Arrazola, Juan Miguel; Jahangiri, Soran; Izaac, Josh; Quesada, Nicolás; Gran, Alain Delgado; Schuld, Maria; Swinarton, Jeremy; Zabaneh, Zeid; Killoran, Nathan (2020). "Applications of Near-Term Photonic Quantum Computers: Software and Algorithms". Quantum Science and Technology. 5 (3): 034010. arXiv:1912.07634. Bibcode:2020QS&T....5c4010B. doi:10.1088/2058-9565/ab8504. S2CID 209386913.
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  27. ^ Bourassa, J. Eli; Alexander, Rafael N.; Vasmer, Michael; Patil, Ashlesha; Tzitrin, Ilan; Matsuura, Takaya; Su, Daiqin; Baragiola, Ben Q.; Guha, Saikat; Dauphinais, Guillaume; Sabapathy, Krishna K. (2021). "Blueprint for a Scalable Photonic Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer". Quantum. 5: 392. arXiv:2010.02905. doi:10.22331/q-2021-02-04-392. S2CID 222141762.

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