An Israeli startup says it has found a software fix for one of quantum computing's biggest problems

[DarkEnergy]

Israeli quantum software company Qedma has integrated its error mitigation technology with Quantinuum's computing platform, aiming to let researchers run larger, more complex quantum calculations with greater accuracy. The integration gives Quantinuum customers access to Qedma's Quantum Error Suppression and Error Mitigation software, known as QESEM, developed over the past year as a founding member of Quantinuum's Startup Partner Program

Errors caused by noise and other hardware limitations remain one of the largest obstacles to practical quantum computing, and Qedma says its hardware independent software analyzes and mitigates those errors in a system's output, improving circuit fidelity without requiring any changes to the underlying quantum hardware itself. Quantinuum's systems already have high average two qubit gate fidelity, and the company says combining that hardware with Qedma's software could enable deeper, more accurate calculations with applications in finance and materials science

Qedma CEO and co-founder Asif Sinay said initial tests of QESEM on Quantinuum's systems showed improvements on demanding workloads, including simulations approaching the limits of what conventional computers can reproduce. Qedma was founded by Sinay alongside Dorit Aharonov, whose research three decades ago helped demonstrate the feasibility of error corrected quantum computation in the first place, and Netanel Lindner, a theoretical condensed matter physicist

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[Robin13]

Software level error mitigation that works without touching the underlying hardware is exactly the kind of practical near term fix this field needs while full fault tolerance is still years away

[NightHarbour91]

Dorit Aharonov being a co-founder here is a great detail, her foundational work on error correction feels like it has come full circle into an actual commercial product

[Messi]

Hardware independent is the key phrase, if this works across different qubit types that is a much bigger deal than a Quantinuum specific fix

[Beta]

Quantinuum's startup partner program seems like a smart way to get promising smaller companies building directly on their hardware rather than competing with it

[ElPresidente]

Curious how much of an actual accuracy improvement this delivers in concrete numbers rather than the more general language used in the announcement

[Romulan32]

This is a nice example of software innovation meaningfully extending what current, imperfect quantum hardware can actually accomplish

[WWEPete45]

Financial and materials science applications getting name checked specifically suggests real enterprise customers are already lined up to test this

[LokiCurrent]

The push toward simulations approaching the limits of classical computing is the same frontier that keeps getting contested by classical algorithm breakthroughs elsewhere

[AlexandrZakharyan]

Good reminder that quantum progress is not just about better qubits, the software layer squeezing more out of existing hardware matters just as much right now