IBM announced quantum hardware and software advancements to execute complex algorithms on IBM quantum computers with record levels of scale, speed, and accuracy.
IBM Quantum Heron, the company's most performant quantum processor to-date and available in IBM's global quantum data centers, can now leverage Qiskit to accurately run certain classes of quantum circuits with up to 5,000 two-qubit gate operations.
According to IBM, users can now use these capabilities to expand explorations in how quantum computers can tackle scientific problems across materials, chemistry, life sciences, high-energy physics, and more.
The combined improvements across IBM Heron and Qiskit can execute certain mirrored kicked Ising quantum circuits of up to 5,000 gates, which is nearly twice the number of gates accurately run in IBM's 2023 demonstration of quantum utility.
This work further extends the performance of IBM's quantum computers beyond the capabilities of brute-force classical simulation methods.
IBM has further evolved Qiskit into the world's most performant quantum software to allow developers to more easily build complex quantum circuits with stability, accuracy, and speed.
"Advances across our hardware and Qiskit are enabling our users to build new algorithms in which advanced quantum and classical supercomputing resources can be knit together to combine their respective strengths," said Jay Gambetta, vice president, IBM Quantum. "As we advance on our roadmap towards error-corrected quantum systems, the algorithms discovered today across industries will be key to realizing the potential to solve new problems realized through the convergence of QPUs, CPUs, and GPUs."
The IBM Quantum Platform is further expanding options with new Qiskit services such as generative AI-based capabilities and software from IBM partners, allowing a growing network of experts across industries to build next-generation algorithms for scientific research.
This includes tools such as the Qiskit Transpiler Service to power the efficient optimization of quantum circuits for quantum hardware with AI; Qiskit Code Assistant to help developers generate quantum code with IBM Granite-based generative AI models; Qiskit Serverless to run initial quantum-centric supercomputing approaches across quantum and classical systems; and the IBM Qiskit Functions Catalog to make services available from IBM, Algorithmiq, Qedma, QunaSys, Q-CTRL, and Multiverse Computing for capabilities such as reducing the performance management of quantum noise, as well as abstracting away the complexities of quantum circuits to simplify the development of quantum algorithms.
As the next evolution of high-performance computing, IBM's vision of quantum-centric supercomputing aims to integrate advanced quantum and classical computers executing parallelized workloads to easily break apart complex problems with performant software, allowing each architecture to solve parts of an algorithm for which it is best suited.
Such software is being designed to seamlessly and quickly knit problems back together, allowing algorithms to be run that are inaccessible or difficult for each computing paradigm on its own, according to IBM.
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