Neutral-Atom Quantum Hardware

Neutral-atom qubits that stay calibrated between every run

Q-Factor builds optical tweezer arrays where an AI calibration layer detects qubit drift and corrects it automatically, so your team spends time on experiments, not recalibration.

The Problem

Physicists lose weeks per year to qubit drift

Manual recalibration is slow, unpredictable, and expertise-dependent. The hardware should handle it.

Hours lost to drift

Trap frequency drift and laser parameter shift degrade gate fidelity continuously. A session that should take two hours requires three more for recalibration before it can even begin.

Expert-dependent maintenance

Recalibration today requires a physicist who understands the full system. It cannot be delegated, scheduled, or automated. Every startup of a complex sequence is a manual diagnostic session.

Unpredictable fidelity

Without continuous monitoring, fidelity at the start of an experiment differs from fidelity an hour in. Results are inconsistent, hard to compare, and difficult to reproduce.

Scaling compounds the problem

Each additional qubit is an additional drift source. A 100-atom array has 100 independently drifting traps. Manual calibration at scale is not just slower, it becomes practically intractable.

The Platform

100+ individually addressable neutral atoms

Strontium-88 atoms held in optical tweezers. Deterministic loading. High-fidelity Rydberg two-qubit gates. Built for research groups who need reliable results.

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Optical Tweezer Array

A 2D grid of focused laser traps holds individual strontium-88 atoms in a programmable geometry. Spacing and layout can be reconfigured between runs to match circuit connectivity requirements.

02
Rydberg Two-Qubit Gates

Entangling gates are implemented via the Rydberg blockade mechanism, where excitation of one atom to a high-lying state suppresses simultaneous excitation of nearby atoms. Gate fidelity exceeds 99% in internal benchmarks.

03
Strontium-88 Qubits

Long T2 coherence times, a clean level structure, and a UV-accessible clock transition make strontium-88 a compelling qubit platform. The narrow-linewidth clock transition enables high-fidelity single-qubit operations.

AI Calibration Layer

Continuous drift detection and real-time correction

The AI calibration layer monitors trap frequencies, qubit transition frequencies, and gate parameters continuously. It detects drift signatures before they degrade fidelity, adjusting beam parameters in real time.

Trap frequency monitoring

Continuous measurement of individual trap frequencies across the array. Frequency drift is detected in milliseconds, before it affects gate performance.

Beam parameter adjustment

When drift is detected, the ML layer automatically adjusts laser power, frequency, and pointing to restore target parameters. No human intervention required.

Closed-loop fidelity maintenance

Gate fidelity is monitored throughout an experimental session. The system maintains fidelity within specification across hours of continuous operation.

Trap freq. monitor 165.3 kHz
Drift detector (ML) +0.8 kHz drift
Correction policy -3.1 mW beam adj
Gate fidelity 99.2%
Evidence

Measured results from early-access configurations

70%
Reduction in calibration downtime between experimental sequences
Internal benchmark data, early-access pilot configurations
99.2%
Two-qubit Rydberg gate fidelity in internal benchmark runs
Measured via randomized benchmarking on our development array

Running experiments that used to require a half-day setup now start in under twenty minutes. The AI layer corrects overnight drift automatically, so we arrive in the morning to a calibrated system rather than a calibration session.

Lead experimentalist, academic quantum computing lab, early-access research partner program
The Team

Built by physicists who lived the problem

Guy Raz
Guy Raz
CEO & Co-Founder
Dr. Arjun Mehta
Dr. Arjun Mehta
Co-Founder & Head of Hardware Physics
Dr. Lena Schulz
Dr. Lena Schulz
Co-Founder & Head of Systems Engineering

Ready to spend more time on experiments?

Hardware access for research groups and labs. Email us or fill out the request form.