Product Spotlight: Choose Your Own Quantum Adventure with Dirac-3S

QCi’s Dirac-3 entropy quantum computer has been benchmarked in problems across disciplines, from finance to bioengineering and has shown promising performance against the most cutting-edge classical methods. But now Dirac-3S, an expansion of Dirac-3, is here, capable of handling even bigger datasets, higher-complexity problems, and with faster speeds.

Sticking with their philosophy of accessible quantum technology, QCi has designed Dirac-3S as an expansion on the original Dirac-3 system: Existing Dirac-3 customers can add a Dirac-3S Expansion Module to their on-site system, and anyone can access it through the cloud, with simply a network connection and a home computer.

What makes Dirac-3S exciting?

Recent benchmarks in finance and bioengineering have shown Dirac-3 has promising, if not superior, performance against the classical state of the art when solving real customer problems. Dirac-3S takes that performance and multiplies it by ten – from 949 variables to 9,980 – opening up new problems to the power of quantum-enabled computing.

Dirac-3S shows results with testing on standard problems, not projections of how it could perform. While Dirac-3 has been competitive with leading classical methods in finance and bioengineering, some comparisons relied on extrapolation to predict where it would pull ahead. Dirac-3S was tested directly on the DIMACS max-clique set. These are standardized NP-hard problems from Rutgers’ Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, widely used to evaluate algorithms.

Using these standard problems, we were able to show that Dirac-3S outperforms the standard industry software Hexaly, as well as projected gradient descent in both solution quality and calculation speed. This means Dirac-3S is a quantum computer that is competing with classical computers on their own playing field.

What makes Dirac-3S tick?

Dirac-3S takes the original Dirac-3 photonic entropy quantum computer and adds on an Expansion module that uses nonlinear optics to expand the handling capacity of the system. All QCi quantum computers are based on photonic qudits (d-dimensional quantum information units) that are stored in the time of arrival of single photons in the calculation loop provided by the lithium niobate photonics that write the problem Hamiltonian onto the light. The Expansion module uses this same concept to scale the architecture up to 9,980 variables, and multiple Expansion Modules can be used to increase the capacity beyond 10,000 variables.

What makes Dirac-3S particularly exciting in the world of quantum technology is that its modular system allows users to customize their computing experience. The original Dirac-3 has shown promising performance for smaller problem sets, while keeping size and power needs low, and adding Expansion modules to implement a full Dirac-3S solution allows users to access larger problems spaces, higher order functions, and more computing power.

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