Which formulation goes to the next wafer lot. Which grid plan to commit capital to. Whether the controller can be released. Each one computed, checked against the method you use now, with its status stated.
Industries
Nine industries, each written for its buyer: the decision you make today, the applications with their status, and the measured result under the application it proves.
Runs on
The photoresist ranking ran on IBM Heron; the disturbance model on a 128-qubit processor; the grid encodings on photonic hardware. Platform names identify hardware we run on. They do not imply a partnership or endorsement.
Industries
Nine industries, five to eight applications each, every one with its status. Measured results sit under the application they prove.
Industry 1 · Semiconductors & advanced materials
The decision Which formulation or process variant goes to the next wafer lot.
Industry 2 · Energy & utilities
The decision Which reinforcement to commit capital to, which units to commit, how the network behaves when a line trips.
Industry 3 · Chemicals & process manufacturing
The decision Which production plan to run this shift; which formulation to make next.
Industry 4 · Mobility & automotive
The decision Can this controller be released; how to time signals across a city; how to route a fleet.
Industry 5 · Telecom
The decision How to get more capacity from spectrum already owned; where to place QKD hardware; which traffic is anomalous.
Industry 6 · Pharma & life sciences
The decision Which pocket to target before the assay campaign; which carrier or excipient to take to the bench.
Industry 7 · Finance
The decision Which entities move together before a loss lands; which hedging or index-tracking book to hold.
Industry 8 · Security & critical infrastructure
The decision Which cipher to migrate first and by when; which assets fail together under attack.
Industry 9 · Aerospace & sovereign programmes
The decision When quantum CFD pays off; what to run on the installed machine now; how to schedule traffic, gates and missions.
Benchmarks
Each row names the published reference with its source, our figure with its status, and the baseline it was checked against. Nine industries on the benchmarks page.
Published reference
Published device runs on the same photoresist chemistry: 14 and 22 qubits.
Merlin
4/4 candidates ranked correctly on hardware · 40-qubit chemistry model · training 173 GPU-hours → minutes
Measured on quantum hardwareClassical computationBaseline
Exact reference energies; the published method's training cost
Published reference
Unit commitment at 25,755 variables and 48,939 constraints ran feasibly on a photonic QPU, with a commercial MILP solver ahead at short runtimes; generation scheduling at 26 generators × 24 periods on 36 trapped-ion qubits, no optimality proof.
Merlin
Optimum proven over 1,048,576 plans · reduced-order model 9% worse on the same QPU · network response to 8 time steps on 156 qubits
Classical computationMeasured on quantum hardwareBaseline
Exhaustive classical search; the full model on the same machine
Published reference
Nonlinear flow on superconducting hardware reaches 15 time steps; vehicle routing on device reaches 3 nodes.
Merlin
95.6% vs 39.5% safe episodes · 20% less waiting at signals (proof of concept)
Measured on quantum hardwareClassical computationPlatform networkBaseline
White-noise disturbance model; conventional signal timing
Product
One product, five solver families. Each names what it takes, what it returns and where it stands today.
Candidate ranking · Binding and activation energetics
Live on quantum hardwareContingency and correlated failure · Whole-network response
Deployed through the platform networkScheduling and dispatch · Routing and assignment · Selection under constraints
Deployed through the platform networkAnomaly detection · Classification
RoadmapField and flow simulation
Time · quality · cost
Time
6 h → 1 min
A re-plan takes hours, so the plant runs yesterday’s plan.
A checked plan in minutes, on demand.
Quality
within 0.3%
Candidates are ranked by synthesis and wafer runs, weeks per option.
Ranked before synthesis, with the gap each ranking rests on.
Cost
173 GPU-hours → minutes
Training the chemistry model costs 173 GPU-hours per screen.
Minutes on one GPU, for the same method.
Recognition · 24 September 2026
Award winner, 2nd place worldwide, GIC 2026 Advanced Materials track (Mitsubishi Chemical Group × AIST). Presented at Quantum World Congress 2026, University of Maryland.
A judged result. Mitsubishi Chemical Group and AIST set the challenge track; the award does not imply their endorsement of Merlin Quantum or its products. GIC challenge page (pqic.org) ↗
Where the work runs
Stills from the Merlin Quantum film.
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Team
Programme and data
Press
Khaleej Times “Dubai quantum team ranks second in global advanced materials contest”Read the article ↗Independent coverage. The award itself is listed on the GIC challenge page (pqic.org).
News
Advanced Materials track, presented at Quantum World Congress, University of Maryland.
ReadThree days at the Grand Hyatt Dubai, showing the materials result and the free problem check.
Read
The release, fact sheet, captions and photography, ready to download.
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