Through the collaboration, Horizon Quantum will leverage QM’s industry-leading orchestration platform for quantum control, alongside QM’s engineering expertise, to develop embedded calibration technologies for Horizon Quantum’s first in-house hardware testbed system Ember-1, a modular superconducting quantum computer. This collaboration aims to accelerate the delivery of more reliable, continuously operating quantum systems.

Through the collaboration, Horizon Quantum will leverage QM’s industry-leading orchestration platform for quantum control, alongside QM’s engineering expertise, to develop embedded calibration technologies for Horizon Quantum’s first in-house hardware testbed system Ember-1, a modular superconducting quantum computer. This collaboration aims to accelerate the delivery of more reliable, continuously operating quantum systems.

Accurate calibration determines the fidelity of a quantum system; however, a full calibration routine is a time-consuming process. As quantum computers continue to scale, maintaining accurate calibration without interrupting system operation has become an increasingly important challenge.

In collaboration with Quantum Machines, Horizon Quantum intends to develop an embedded calibration framework that enables lightweight calibration routines to be executed as part of normal system operation, reducing reliance on lengthy full-system calibration cycles. By updating the system parameters more frequently, this process will be designed to reduce downtime, improve operational stability, and maintain high-performance operation over extended runtimes.

To support this development, Horizon Quantum will leverage QM’s OPX1000 control system—the system currently used in Ember-1. By improving Ember-1’s uptime, this collaboration is expected to increase the amount of access time available for Triple Alpha users on the system. It also aims to demonstrate the capabilities of QM's control technology in a real-world quantum computing environment.

The collaboration reflects both companies' shared commitment to advancing practical quantum computing by combining best-in-class quantum software and control technologies that enable customers to build scalable, high-performance quantum systems.