IBM Hackathon Leads to Quantum Cloud Integration With Trapped Ion Devices | NextBigFuture.com

Qiskit, is IBM’s open-source quantum computing platform and it now works with trapped ion devices – not just the IBM superconducting systems. The first company to connect Qiskit to a trapped ion device is Austrian-based startup Alpine Quantum Technologies. Their users can program a 5-qubit trapped ion device, over the cloud. They are a spinoff of the University of Innsbruck, students at the university can also use Qiskit to program their trapped ion device. Nextbigfuture interviewed Paul Nation, a co-author of of the IBM Research blog. Paul worked with Alpine Quantum’s use of Qiskit and is a researcher at IBM.