Quantum with Friends: QuEra’s World Tour: Taiwan

Описание: On September 10, 2025, we hosted Quantum with Friends – Taiwan, a special session bringing together leading voices from QuEra, Foxconn, and the Taiwan Quantum National Program.

It was a unique opportunity to connect across industry, academia, and government, and to exchange perspectives on how quantum computing is evolving in Taiwan and globally.
We covered a range of topics: QuEra’s latest developments in neutral-atom quantum computing, quantum software and error correction, Taiwan’s national program and its vision, and Foxconn’s role in advancing quantum technologies, including their results on QEC.

A big thank you to our speakers, Prof. Ying-Jer Kao, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, and Kai-Hsin Wu and Chen Zhao from QuEra, and participants for making this such an insightful discussion.

Chapters

00:00 – Welcome & speakers (QuEra, NTU, Foxconn)
00:38 – Agenda overview
01:55 – About QuEra: mission, partners, funding & deployments
03:46 – Quantum modalities & key platform trade-offs
06:03 – Why neutral atoms: scalability, shuttling, fidelity, uniform qubits
07:10 – Aquila on AWS: access & global availability
08:23 – Gemini at AIST (Japan): gate-based system & status
10:09 – HPC + Quantum: integrating with NVIDIA GPU supercomputers
12:02 – How QuEra works with industry, HPC centers, and governments
15:33 – Japan program & strategic collaborations (incl. NVIDIA)
18:16 – Taiwan’s national quantum initiative (Phase 1) – NTU overview
20:56 – Hardware, photonics, software stacks & international collabs in Taiwan
24:51 – Next-phase focus: chips, photonics, QKD, hybrid QC-HPC
30:36 – QuEra SDKs & compiler: programming neutral-atom systems
34:12 – Transversal gates & parallel operations (atom shuttling)
37:20 – Noise models, simulators, and ecosystem bridging (QEC research)
40:40 – Low-level shuttling EDSL: optimizing programs for hardware
43:01 – Quantum error correction: goals, thresholds, and neutral-atom advantages
46:43 – Magic-state distillation demo on Gemini; AI decoders with NVIDIA
49:41 – Constant-overhead syndrome handling & resource estimates (Shor)
53:18 – Near-term opportunities on early fault-tolerant neutral-atom machines
55:15 – Research highlights & publications (Nature, PRL, QIP, etc.)
1:01:37 – Hardware progress (trapped-ion sibling platform)
1:02:05 – Q&A, contacts & wrap-up

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