Amazon Ocelot is the company’s first quantum computing chip, and it uses a novel design for its architecture, building error correction in from the ground up. This novel design is called cat qubits, named after the famous Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment, and when combined with additional quantum error correction components, a microchip that can be manufactured in a scalable fashion using processes borrowed from the microelectronics industry is the result.
AWS researchers believe that scaling Ocelot to a “fully-fledged quantum computer capable of transformative societal impact would require as little as one-tenth of the resources associated with standard quantum error correcting approaches.” Since Ocelot reduces the amount of resources needed, quantum computers can be built smaller, more reliably, and at lower cost. All of this accelerates the road to applying quantum computing to future real-world applications, including faster drug discovery and development.
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With the recent advancements in quantum research, it is no longer a matter of if, but when practical, fault-tolerant quantum computers will be available for real-world applications. Ocelot is an important step on that journey. In the future, quantum chips built according to the Ocelot architecture could cost as little as one-fifth of current approaches, due to the drastically reduced number of resources required for error correction. Concretely, we believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years,” said Oskar Painter, AWS director of Quantum Hardware.
