Horizon Quantum Computing develops tools for coding, compiling, and deploying quantum applications using classical programming languages.

Horizon Quantum Computing

We are pioneering an approach to quantum computing that allows users to write programs in classical languages that can be compiled and run on conventional or quantum computers, without any knowledge in quantum computing. 

Whether you are a software developer interested in quantum computing, or an expert who is highly proficient in quantum information theory, you'll be able to gain a quantum speedup without the need to understand the underlying computational model. Our compiler automatically constructs quantum algorithms from classical code, so you can develop quantum algorithms for new domains without deep quantum expertise.

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Conventional computer programs won’t run on quantum processors and quantum developers are in short supply. “Our role is to make quantum computing accessible by building the tools with which people can use it in the real world,” says our CEO Joe Fitzsimons. 

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This week held an important milestone for the quantum computing field, thanks to incredible work on quantum error correction from the Google team. Their Senior Staff Software Engineer, Dave Bacon, and John Preskill, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, were guests on our Quantum Well podcast episode on fault-tolerant quantum computation.

Throwback to February 2022 when we discussed how the threshold is calculated in quantum computing, the brute force approach, cosmic rays and whether we’ll need to go underground, like in a science fiction book by Robert Sawyer.

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We are pleased to announce that we welcomed Ratna Prashanth Kumar as a Senior Product Manager. 

Prior to joining Horizon, Ratna held Product Management, Ad Sales and Sales Finance roles at Arcadia, Google, and HP. He holds a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering (Honours) from Anna University Chennai, followed by a Master of Business Administration from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and an Advanced Management Program in Business Analytics from the Indian School of Business. 

"Making quantum computers accessible to everyone isn’t just a mission. It’s a powerful way to democratise this complex technology. At Horizon, creating practical software products for developers, quantum researchers, and others fills me with immense excitement," says Ratna. "It's exhilarating to be part of this transformative and groundbreaking phase in quantum computing."

Adaptive quantum circuits are emerging as an important enabler for useful quantum computation, and Quantum Machines is hosting its first edition of #AQC24 this September. We are proud to be a Platinum sponsor at this event, which will bring leading experts from across quantum disciplines to address the challenges and opportunities provided by adaptive quantum circuits and advance practical quantum applications. 

If you’d like to attend, register with a 50% discount code: AQC24-disconfpass

Find out more here: https://www.aqcqm.com

“It’s not as strange as it’s made out to be in popular culture, but it requires a fundamental shift in how we think about computation,” our CEO, Dr Joe Fitzsimons, said about quantum computing and how it is intrinsically different from paradigms of conventional computing. 

The Quantum Insider article also gets into the further complexities of amplitudes and how quantum systems require intuition that we don't naturally have, making it a central challenge to quantum computing today. 
The podcast featured in this article, hosted by Jeremy Gilbertson and Mark Fielding ✍️ Fielding on the Thinking On Paper Podcast & Book Club, is now available on various streaming platforms. 

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Achieving quantum advantage demands tighter integration between software and hardware. To that end, we are establishing a hardware testbed to integrate with our software stack Triple Alpha.

This next chapter of our growth reminds us of when we started building our headquarters four years ago. In just a few weeks, we’ve progressed from empty floors to carpentry installations, making way for our quantum testbed, meeting rooms and work spaces.

We are proud to pioneer a new era of quantum computing by being the first quantum software company to have our own quantum hardware on-premises.

To program computers, it took 70 years to go from Assembly to the levels of abstraction that we know today. At Horizon, our end goal is to allow users to program quantum computers the same way you program classical ones. That is why we are building software development tools with expressive and Turing-complete quantum languages. When quantum hardware comes to maturity, our tools will be there to fully harness the power of those machines to tackle hard computational problems.

Our CEO Dr Joe Fitzsimons sat down with Anastasia Marchenkova to talk about what we’ve achieved on our path to classical-to-quantum compilation. 

🔵 While most quantum programming frameworks today are circuit-based, we allow for non-circuit computation including indefinite loops, classical and quantum conditionals, and recursion.
🔵 Our system enables runtime interaction with other computer systems, making interactive programs such as REPLs (read-evaluate-print loops) easy to implement with only a few dozen lines of code.
🔵 Using post-selection, we can emulate mid-circuit measurements to allow for flow control conditioned on measurement outcomes.

These capabilities open up new directions that aren’t practical or even feasible within other programming paradigms.

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The video was recorded at Q2B Silicon Valley, which has a unique spirit pinpointed by Anastasia as “a holiday party for all of us in Quantum” and we are happy to announce that we’ll be back there in 2024!

Congratulations to Horizon’s team members Dr Pooja Jayachandran, Dr Angelina Frank and Dr Benjamin Tan who had their Commencement Ceremony and are now sharing the National University of Singapore Alumni badge!

We are pleased to announce that we welcomed Eoin Scanlon as a VP of Operations.

A retired Lieutenant Colonel, Eoin joined Horizon after a distinguished 22-year career in the Irish Defence Forces, where he worked primarily in military communications, ICT and cybersecurity. A former Commanding Officer with several overseas tours of duty, Eoin brings a wealth of experience in leadership, operations, project management and logistics to Horizon. With Bachelors degrees in both Mathematics and Physics, and Masters Degrees in Mathematical Physics, Data Analytics, Communications Technology Management and Leadership, Eoin brings a unique blend of expertise and experience to the role.

“By making the power of quantum accessible to any developer, Horizon is tackling one of the major barriers to useful quantum computing,” says Eoin. “From Triple Alpha to Horizon’s first-of-a-kind quantum hardware testbed and beyond, I’m delighted to be joining the team and helping the company navigate the exciting road ahead.”

What are you looking forward to in the next evolution of quantum computing? For our Chief Scientist, Dr Si-Hui Tan, it’s the interplay between software and hardware, and seeing where software could offer error mitigation or coding tools for quantum computers. This is an exciting time for quantum computing given all the improvements in hardware and error correction we are seeing, she said on the quantum computing panel on the main stage of the #TNWconference.

You can watch the replay to learn why quantum computing is at the inflection point and what reasons pushed us, a quantum software pure player, to build a quantum hardware testbed. 🔒 https://lnkd.in/gM5A-gH4

The TNW conference was a blast with its warm and passionate audience, a great programme and insightful exchanges.

Thank you to Nicole Holzmann and Shahar Graf for the great discussion on stage and to the organisers for all their work behind the scenes to make the conference a success.

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