Lightsynq, USA, a Boston-based startup, launched on 19 November after raising US$18 million in Series A funding to build technology enabling quantum computers to scale to commercially useful sizes. Lightsynq will leverage synthetic diamonds with unique optical properties from?Element Six?(E6), a division of the De Beers Group, UK, to address the network loss associated with extracting quantum information out of computing modules.
Quantum memories are the only known approach for building loss-tolerant connections between quantum computers. According to Lightsynq, their quantum memories are created by embedding silicon atoms into diamond to form silicon vacancy color centers (SiVs)—two-qubit registers that are controllable using microwave pulses. More details from my Optica colleagues. https://bit.ly/41nVnq3
New startup Lightsynq was launched on November 19th after raising US$18 million in Series A funding.
They plan on using diamonds to build technology that could enable quantum computers to scale to commercially useful sizes.
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