Deltaflow Virtual Lab

量子计算机可以模拟量子系统，比如药物和材料中的电子，比标准计算机快得多。他们承诺在制药和化工行业开放价值数十亿英镑的市场。然而，建造量子计算机是一个具有技术挑战性的过程。通过反复试验，工程师和研究人员设计并改进了量子比特，即比特的量子版本，这样他们就可以在上面运行算法和应用程序。这些工程任务的关键是控制量子比特的系统。这些系统也是向量子计算机添加更多量子比特以便将量子计算机用于商业环境的瓶颈。由于新冠肺炎和随之而来的封锁，许多正在开发量子计算机的实验室不得不关闭。最重要的优化量子比特和控制系统的工作不能在这种环境下进行。Riverlane正在开发一个名为Deltaflow虚拟实验室(Deltaflow-VL)的工具，它可以模拟量子计算系统的重要部分，这样研究人员和工程师就可以开发新的想法，而不必去他们的实验室。Deltaflow-VL是同类产品中的第一个，因为目前还没有可用的工具来允许量子硬件工程师以高效的方式远程工作。在大流行之后，Deltaflow-VL有可能使构建量子计算机的效率更高。通过对控制系统和量子比特进行模拟和建模，量子硬件工程师在优化控制系统时减少了对试错的依赖。这可能会让英国量子计算行业在未来获得竞争优势。

Quantum computers can simulate quantum systems, such as the electrons in drugs and materials, much faster than standard computers. They promise to open up markets worth billions of pounds in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry. However, building a quantum computer is a technically challenging process. By trial and error, engineers and researchers design and improve qubits, the quantum version of bits, so that they can run algorithms and applications on them. Key to these engineering tasks are the systems that control the qubits. These systems are also the bottleneck to adding more qubits to a quantum computer in order to use quantum computers in commercial settings.Due to COVID-19 and the accompanying lockdowns, many labs in which quantum computers are being developed have had to shut down. The all-important work on optimising the qubits and control systems cannot proceed in this climate. Riverlane is building a tool, Deltaflow Virtual Lab (Deltaflow-VL), that mimics the important parts of a quantum computing system so that researchers and engineers can develop new ideas without having to go to their labs. Deltaflow-VL is the first of its kind since there are currently no tools available that allow quantum hardware engineers to work remotely in a productive manner.Beyond the pandemic, Deltaflow-VL has the potential to make building a quantum computer more efficient. By mimicing and modelling the control systems and qubits, quantum hardware engineers are less reliant on trial and error when optimising their control systems. This could give the UK quantum computing industry a competitive advantage in the future.