Xanadu Joins Chicago Quantum Exchange — CQE’s First Canadian partner
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- Xanadu joins the Chicago Quantum Exchange as the consortium’s first Canadian corporate partner this month.
- The company strategically partners with academic institutions and research labs to collaboratively advance quantum education.
- The CQE is one of the largest collaborative teams working on quantum information science and engineering in the world.
PRESS RELEASE — Xanadu, a full-stack quantum computing company with the mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere, joined the Chicago Quantum Exchange as the consortium’s first Canadian corporate partner this month.
The Toronto-based photonic quantum computing company also leads the development of PennyLane, an open-source software library for quantum computing programming and application development. The company, which was founded in 2016, also strategically partners with academic institutions and research labs to collaboratively advance quantum education.
“We are delighted to welcome Xanadu, a company whose efforts to accelerate quantum computing research and education fits well with the CQE’s mission to advance the field of quantum information science and engineering, build the future quantum workforce, and drive the quantum economy,” said Chicago Quantum Exchange CEO Kate Timmerman. “The company is already contributing to the CQE’s ecosystem as a member of The Bloch Quantum Tech Hub, where it is an important part of our effort to democratize quantum computing.”
The Bloch Quantum is a multisector coalition with an industry-forward approach to quantum technology development—a first-of-its-kind system that equips entire industry sectors with the partnerships, specialized infrastructure, and workforce to create quantum solutions for some of society’s most pressing issues. The Bloch is a US Economic Development Administration-designated Tech Hub that is projected to generate $60 billion in economic impact for the Chicago metro area by 2035.
“Xanadu joining the Chicago Quantum Exchange represents a key milestone in our mission to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere,” said Christian Weedbrook, Xanadu’s founder and CEO. “By joining forces with the CQE’s esteemed consortium of university and industrial leaders, we are poised to empower the next generation of pioneers in quantum programming and to drive applied research that moves quantum computing from the theoretical into the practical.”
The CQE is one of the largest collaborative teams working on quantum information science and engineering in the world. It is based at the University of Chicago and anchored by Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Northwestern University, and includes more than 40 corporate, international, nonprofit, and regional partners.
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Xanadu
Xanadu is a Canadian photonic quantum computing company founded in 2016 that is building fault tolerant systems utilizing light. The company collaborates with defense and hardware partners like AMD and Lockheed Martin to accelerate computational fluid dynamics simulations and train an aerospace engineering workforce.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago, located in Chicago, Illinois, USA, is a private research university with its primary campus situated in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.
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Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory, one of the U.S. Department of Energy's national laboratories for science and engineering research, employs 3,400 employees, including 1,400 scientists and engineers, three-quarters of whom hold doctoral degrees. Argonne's annual operating budget of around $1 billion supports upwards of 200 research projects. Since 1990, Argonne has worked with more than 600 companies and numerous federal agencies and other organizations. The Lab has successfully launched its own Quantum Foundry to accelerate quantum information research.
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Fermilab's QICK box, an integrated system for quantum control, simplifies and enhances quantum research by consolidating hardware like FPGA boards, amplifiers, and filters into a compact, modular package. Building on the original Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit, the QICK box improves signal-to-noise ratios and qubit control, offering scalability and adaptability for evolving experiments. Developed with collaborators like Yale and the University of Chicago, it has become a widely adopted tool with over 350 users, aiding scientists in advancing quantum information science.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, located in Champaign and Urbana, Illinois, United States, is a public land-grant research university. Established in 1867, it serves as the flagship university of the University of Illinois system.
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Northwestern University
Northwestern University, located in Evanston, Illinois, is a private research university. It was founded in 1851 to cater to the former Northwest Territory and holds the distinction of being the oldest chartered university in Illinois. The university's primary campus is situated by the shores of Lake Michigan in the Chicago metropolitan region.
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