Aerospace · sovereign programmes

Characterise the quantum machine you already own

From a processor’s own calibration data we read its clock to 0.0029%, locate the qubit that is losing information, and route around it at submission. A national programme learns what its installed machine can run this quarter, measured on the machine itself.

Headline result

0.0029%

0.0029% from the device’s own response, eight time rounds, superconducting processor

Measured on quantum hardware
Still from the Merlin Quantum film: a processor package under test
01 · The decision

The decision on the table

Programmes that own a small quantum machine wait for methods that need a hundred qubits, while the machine sits idle and its vendor figures go unchecked. The question is what the installed device can run now.

02 · What we did

What we did, with proprietary methods

We read the device as a physical system: its clock from the frequencies in its own response, its loss from where information leaves during each operation. The read is made on the machine, the lossy qubit is named, and the first circuits are placed around it.

03 · What it was worth

What it was worth

0.0029% from the device’s own response, eight time rounds, superconducting processor

Key result · Aerospace · sovereign programmes
Your machine’s clock, read to three parts in a hundred thousand
Baseline
the vendor calibration sheet
Condition
0.0029% from the device’s own response, eight time rounds, superconducting processor
The weak qubit found and avoided
Baseline
average error rates that hide it
Condition
the lossy qubit located and routed around at submission
Full-size runs on the machine you have
Baseline
waiting for a hundred-qubit method
Condition
42 working units on a 256-atom machine with coupling set by placement; 26 working units carrying 1,448 entangling operations on a 156-qubit chip
Outcome

What happened next

For a client, the next step is the first engagement on this page’s industry: you send your machine’s calibration export. You get back its characterisation and what it can run this quarter. Two weeks.

Decision it enabled

Your machine’s clock, read to three parts in a hundred thousand

Instead of: the vendor calibration sheet

Verified by · Measured on quantum hardware; job identifiers on file for every figure.

05 · How we know

How we know

  1. 01Clock read to 0.0029% on a superconducting processor from its own response; the lossy qubit identified.
  2. 02Placement on a 256-atom neutral-atom machine: 42 working units, coupling set by atom placement.
  3. 03Full-processor runs: 26 working units carrying 1,448 entangling operations on a 156-qubit processor.
  4. 04Not claimed: that the vendor’s figures are wrong, or any application result from the characterisation alone.
StatusMeasured on quantum hardwareMeasured on quantum hardware; job identifiers on file for every figure.

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