Key takeaways
- Entangled Networks is building an optical interconnect that links separate quantum processors together instead of trying to scale a single monolithic chip.
- Their compiler has to decide how to split and route a circuit across multiple linked QPUs, treating the network link itself as a resource to optimize.
- Photons are the natural carrier for entangling separate processors because light can travel between dilution refrigerators without the qubits themselves having to move.
- Scaling by networking QPUs lets hardware vendors keep improving individual chips while the interconnect layer handles turning many small machines into one larger distributed computer.
Summary
Aharon Brodutch and Ilia Khait, co-founders of Entangled Networks, a company building an optical interconnect between QPUs are interviewed by Yuval Boger. Aharon, Ilia, and Yuval talk about the efforts required to scale up quantum processors, their optimizing compiler, building a distributed quantum computer, and much more.