About QBoson
QBoson, also known as Boseq, is a Beijing-based company building photonic machines for combinatorial optimisation and probabilistic sampling. Its machines are coherent Ising machines, which use pulses of light to search for low-energy solutions to optimisation problems. They are special-purpose devices and cannot run general-purpose quantum algorithms, and whether they offer any advantage over classical methods is still debated. It also offers the Kaiwu software development kit and a cloud platform. It has laboratories in several Chinese cities and a factory in Shenzhen. A founding year could not be confirmed. This is quantum-inspired or photonic hardware, outside the usual scope of this directory.
QBoson and is based in Beijing, China. It is listed under Quantum Computing, Photonic Computing.
Compute Technologies
- Photonics
- Optical Computing
What QBoson works on
Quantum Computing
A quantum computer is a machine that uses the rules of quantum physics to process information. Its basic unit is the qubit. A classical bit is either 0 or 1. A qubit can be in a superposition, a state that combines both, and its measured result is probabilistic.
Photonic Computing
Photonic computing uses light instead of electricity to carry or process information. Photons have no charge, so light in a waveguide does not cause the resistive heating that current in a wire does, though lasers and modulators still use power, and many wavelengths can share one waveguide. The industry has two quite different parts: moving data with light, and computing with light.
Also in China
TuringQ, Accelink Technologies, LightIC, Zhongji Innolight, QuantumCTek
