9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
▲ [11a-N307-1] Xanadu Cloud & Gaussian Boson Sampling
Keywords:photonics, quantum computing, cloud
Xanadu is a Canadian quantum technology company with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. Founded in 2016, Xanadu is building towards a universal quantum computer using silicon photonic hardware and offers users access to near-term quantum devices through the Xanadu Cloud platform. The focus of this talk will be to provide a technical overview of Xanadu’s programmable Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) hardware and how they can be accessed over the cloud for quantum algorithm development. In addition to hardware access, the Xanadu Cloud provides users with access to high-performance quantum simulators and managed services for the leading software library for quantum machine learning, PennyLane.