PsiQuantum announced the start of a 12-month project with STFC's Hartree Centre and the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF) to develop Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing (FTQC) applications in the UK at the official opening of PsiDaresbury, the new STFC-PsiQuantum R&D facility. This work's findings will be disseminated within the government and with collaborative industry partners.

 

The event was hosted by PsiQuantum co-founders Terry Rudolph, Chief Architect, and Mark Thompson, Chief Technologist, and included remarks from the Rt. Hon. Michelle Donelan, MP, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology; Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region; Mark Thomson, Executive Chair of the STFC; Paul Vernon, Executive Director, STFC; Professor Sir Peter Knight, Quantum Optics and Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College London; Professor Elham Kashefi, Chief Scientist, NQCC; Michael Cuthbert, Director, NQCC; and Kate Royse, Director, Hartree Centre, as per business wire.

 

PsiQuantum's advanced R&D facility at STFC's Daresbury Laboratory is supported by a £9M grant from the UK government's Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT), and provides access to one of Europe's biggest liquid-helium (approx. -270°C) cryogenic facilities. PsiQuantum is developing next generation cryogenic quantum modules with the highest cryogenic cooling power deployed to date, representing a major step toward large-scale quantum computers capable of solving commercially relevant problems in collaboration with Daresbury Laboratory experts specializing in large-scale cryogenic infrastructure. PsiQuantum's initial cryogenic quantum modules, with a capacity more than ten times that of prior systems, are now operational.