Mark Jackson (Quantinuum): Why compilers matter as much as qubits

Key takeaways

  • Optimizing compilers can squeeze meaningfully more performance out of today's noisy hardware without adding a single qubit
  • Recent quantum error correction results are shifting the industry conversation from physical qubit counts to logical qubit performance
  • Most enterprise customers want shrink wrapped, ready to run quantum software rather than building custom algorithms from scratch
  • Trapped ion systems trade some qubit count for higher gate fidelity, which changes how error correction overhead gets calculated

Summary

Mark Jackson, senior quantum evangelist at Quantinuum, is interviewed by Yuval Boger. Mark and Yuval talk about optimizing compilers, quantum error correction news, whether customers prefer shrink-wrapped quantum software, and much more.

Read the full transcript on The Quantum Computing Report