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Business Wire
9 hours ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Photonic to Open Quantum R&D Facility in the UK
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Photonic Inc., a Canada-based leader in distributed, fault-tolerant quantum computing, today announced their intent to establish a quantum research and development (R&D) facility in the UK—marking a significant milestone in the company's international growth and a win for both Canadian and UK innovation. Photonic Inc. announces plans to expand R&D capacity with a new facility in the UK. Share Over the next three years, Photonic will open a new quantum R&D facility in the UK, creating over 30 high-paying jobs and investing more than £25 million—while advancing Canada's leadership in quantum innovation at home and abroad. Photonic's expansion into the UK marks a strategic step in the company's global growth. While its headquarters, core research, and foundational technologies remain rooted in Canada, the UK investment introduces complementary capabilities—including targeted R&D—that enhance and extend Photonic's innovation pipeline. Together, these efforts create new opportunities for cross-border collaboration, talent development, and global market access—while contributing to national security, economic development, and scientific excellence in both countries. 'Our expansion into the UK is a win-win—strengthening our ability to scale globally while reinforcing Canada's position as a leader in secure, scalable quantum technologies,' said Dr. Stephanie Simmons, Founder and Chief Quantum Officer at Photonic. 'Ever since earning my doctorate in quantum computing at the University of Oxford, I've admired the UK's trailblazing approach to quantum. I am really excited by the ambition laid out in the next phase of the UK Government's National Quantum Strategy, and we are looking forward to supporting the government in delivery of its Quantum Missions. Quantum has enormous potential to drive societal impact and economic growth—and Photonic is committed to unleashing that potential through deep, collaborative partnerships between our two countries.' 'Photonic is a Canadian homegrown success story and a shining example of the world-class innovation emerging from our national quantum ecosystem,' said Evan Solomon, Canada's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation. 'Its UK expansion reflects our shared ambition to build a trusted transatlantic quantum future. We're proud to support Photonic as it scales internationally while anchored in Canada—creating jobs, advancing the commercialization of quantum technology, and strengthening Canada's quantum leadership.' 'Photonic's decision to expand their presence in the UK is a clear vote of confidence in the UK's fast-growing quantum sector, which is leading advances on everything from sensing for healthcare to quantum computing,' said UK Science Minister Lord Vallance. 'This £25m investment will create jobs and generate economic growth, while deepening collaboration between the UK and Canada on this vital technology.' Photonic's growth has been supported by Canadian and UK partners alike. The company has received investment from Canada-based BCI and Inovia Capital and from UK-based Amadeus Capital Partners and the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), while also participating in a joint funding initiative between Canada's National Research Council and Innovate UK. About Photonic Photonic Inc. is a leading quantum company developing commercial-scale quantum computers and quantum networks to solve some of the world's most pressing challenges across materials science, drug discovery, climate change, security, and more. Photonic's Entanglement First™ architecture is designed to deliver at scale, leveraging optically-linked silicon spin qubits with high connectivity. This approach enables entanglement distribution for powerful computation, efficient error correction, and seamless integration into existing data centre and telecom environments. Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with operations in the United States and the United Kingdom, Photonic has over 150 employees and is backed by leading investors and multinational partners. To learn more, visit
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Photonic Accelerates the Timeline to Useful Quantum Computing With Breakthrough Results in Error Correction
New QLDPC code family unlocks highly efficient quantum operations with lower physical qubit requirements VANCOUVER, British Columbia, February 11, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In an industry first, Photonic Inc. has introduced a new, low-overhead family of Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes that can efficiently perform both quantum computation and error correction, using materially fewer quantum bits (qubits) than traditional surface code approaches. This milestone work will accelerate the timeline to useful quantum computing. "Unlocking the quantum logic of high-performance QLDPC codes has been the holy grail of quantum error correction R&D for decades, and one of the obstacles to cost-effective quantum computing at scale," said Stephanie Simmons, Chief Quantum Officer at Photonic. "Today we're announcing that we have cracked these codes. Today we're launching fast and lean QLDPC codes, called SHYPS codes, that can run all quantum algorithms using up to 20x fewer physical qubits compared to the traditional approaches to error correction. We're excited to share these milestone results which have moved the goalposts for useful quantum computing 20x closer." Quantum computers require error correction to realize the promised exponential speedups over known classical approaches for key computational challenges. Using surface code for error-correction introduces enormous overhead requirements for systems at scale – millions of physical qubits are needed to collectively act as the thousands of logical qubits required for impactful applications. These assumptions have contributed to 30+ year projections of when quantum will become "real" in the market. Introduced 20 years ago, QLDPC codes provide a promising alternative to reduce overheads by 10-100x – with one catch – someone had to first unlock the ability to perform quantum logic using QLDPC codes. Researchers spent over a decade on this challenge, and today Photonic's new paper, "Computing Efficiently in QLDPC Codes," is the first to demonstrate how to compute using SHYPS QLDPC codes. This breakthrough simultaneously delivers the efficiency gains promised by QLDPC codes and removes a key barrier to commercially useful quantum applications. "This is a truly major milestone. The quantum field must now be divided into those whose hardware can run these new codes, and those who can't. We're going to see a race between players that invest in the scarce skills required for in-house code innovation, and those that seek to be fast followers," said David Shaw, Lead Analyst, Global Quantum Intelligence. "Implementing logic always looked like the hard part of standing-up better codes. This new work has knocked it out of the park." This fast and lean, patent pending QLDPC code family has specific hardware requirements for implementation that not every approach to quantum computing can deliver. Photonic's Entanglement FirstTM architecture provides the high levels of connectivity needed to realize the benefits of QLDPC codes. These codes have been stress tested in the most complete simulations known to date, demonstrating that the logic works in practice, not just in theory. Better yet, this approach is implementable on distributed systems, working both within and between modules. Learn more about the SHYPS QLDPC code family and Photonic's advances in efficient quantum error correction: For more discussion of these results and their impact, read "Launching SHYPS: QLDPC is the New Error Correction" For a deep dive, read the scientific paper "Computing Efficiently in QLDPC Codes" About Photonic Photonic Inc. is a leading quantum company developing commercial-scale quantum computers and quantum networks to solve some of the world's most pressing challenges across materials science, drug discovery, climate change, security, and more. Photonic's Entanglement First™ architecture is designed to deliver at scale, leveraging optically linked silicon spin qubits with high connectivity. This approach enables entanglement distribution for powerful computation, efficient error correction, and seamless integration into existing data center and telecom environments. Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with operations in the United States and the United Kingdom, Photonic has over 150 employees and is backed by leading investors and multinational partners. To learn more, visit View source version on Contacts Laurie Davis+1 804 337 2569Laurie_Davis@ Vivian Kelly+1 703 509 5412viviankelly@ Sign in to access your portfolio
