Funny how working with something a little smaller can make you part of something bigger.
Introducing the Novera QPU, a 9-qubit version of Rigetti’s most powerful quantum computer. Novera gives you unprecedented access to quantum technology so you can explore further and accomplish your work faster. Imagine all you could do.
Then do it.
The Novera QPU, our 9-qubit QPU, gives you unprecedented access to quantum technology and empowers you to take your research to the next level. Best of all, it’s ready to ship today.
The Novera QPU is manufactured with the same caliber as Rigetti’s larger systems and is ready to help you solve your biggest challenges. With cutting-edge technology, enhanced experimentation capabilities, and a network of experts behind it, Novera equips you like never before with what you need to excel in quantum computing.
Refined over 10 years, the Novera QPU is based on Rigetti’s Ankaa™-class architecture, which features a square lattice of qubits and tunable couplers that enable high-fidelity two-qubit operations. This means you engage in leading-edge R&D without settling for less.
Get deeper access to the tech stack, with more control throughout – down to the smallest details.
The Novera QPU can be easily rewired and customized to fit your goals.
No schedule snafus or resource-sharing means no impediments to your progress.
Upgrade and improve your hardware as the technology evolves, prolonging your investment and keeping you at the edge of innovation.
The Novera QPU is built using the same technology as our state-of-the-art QPUs, from our large-scale Ankaa systems to our 9-qubit R&D devices. This evolution of our Ankaa-class architecture delivers the higher performance you need for tackling complex problems.
Qubits
9Median Time Duration (µs)
T1 Lifetime
T2 Lifetime
Tunable Couplers
12Median Fidelity (per op.)
Single-qubit gates
Two-qubit gates (ISWAP)
The Novera QPU is available to ship immediately. Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery once your order has been confirmed and shipping logistics are finalized.
Order YoursThe Novera QPU is designed and manufactured in-house at Fab-1, the industry's first dedicated and integrated quantum device manufacturing facility.
The Novera QPU's main processor is a 9-qubit chip with fast two-qubit operations. But we also include a separate chip with five isolated qubits. This chip has longer coherence times, is simpler to operate, and useful for developing and characterizing single-qubit operations.
Requirements
Requirements
This small-scale version of our deployed 84-qubit Ankaa QPU includes:
The system is compatible with dilution refrigerators having a mixing chamber plate diameter of 290mm or greater, and a cooling power of 14 µW or greater at 20mK. The refrigerator needs to be outfitted with wiring between all temperature stages above the mixing chamber plate, including appropriate attenuation and amplification.
The control hardware for operating the circuit needs to generate and receive readout pulses between 7-8 GHz, generate control pulses between 4-5 GHz, and generate combined DC (for static bias) + RF (for gate operations) flux signals up to 1 GHz.
After installing the Novera QPU and cooling down the dilution refrigerator, you are ready to interact with the qubits. Readout involves sending and receiving microwave pulses at the frequencies of the qubits’ readout resonators, and identifying the qubit states based on their dispersive shifts. To change the qubit states, you send pulses to the qubits at their transition frequencies. These protocols are easiest to develop on the 5-qubit chip.
Operation of the 9-qubit chip is more complicated. First, the qubits’ transition frequencies can be tuned by applying DC flux currents. Secondly, there are tunable couplers between adjacent qubits on the chip which are also modified using flux currents. Thirdly, when first cooled down, the qubits are strongly interacting by default, which makes operation initially more complicated. An important step is finding the flux conditions that put all qubits in a non-interacting state, which makes subsequent operations easier.
The next phase is implementing two-qubit gates. There are many possible schemes, and this is an active area of research and development in the superconducting qubits community. Between the tunable qubits and tunable couplers, one can use flux pulses to do fast entangling operations in a variety of ways.
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The Novera QPU empowers researchers, scientists, and other forward thinkers to solve problems in amazing new ways that shorten the time to answers and accelerate productive exploration.
The Novera QPU implements universal gate-based quantum computing. It integrates with either Rigetti’s components or any suitable third-party’s for a full-fledged, small-scale quantum computer that enables quantum software and algorithm researchers to prototype and test:
Quantum machine learning models that sample parameterised quantum circuits widely apply to the financial services industry, with early adopters focusing on recession forecasting and sample discrimination for the financial services industry. Also, simulation of simple molecules and bulk materials.
An off-the-shelf testbed for designing and calibrating gate pulses, characterizing noise models, and testing quantum error mitigation methods on realistic applications.
Conduct early experiments with the surface code and some of its subroutines, such as syndrome extraction and stabilizer measurement.
The Novera™ QPU Partner Program is an ecosystem of quantum computing hardware, software, and service providers who build and offer integral components of a functional quantum computing system. Novera QPU customers who need control systems, a dilution refrigerator, and quantum computing software tools can leverage our network of partners to streamline their journey for selecting and integrating their preferred technology with the Novera QPU.
The Novera QPU is compatible with dilution refrigerators with a mixing chamber plate diameter of 290mm or greater, and a cooling power of 12 µW or greater at 20mK. The dilution refrigerator needs to be outfitted with wiring between all temperature stages above the mixing chamber plate, including appropriate attenuation and amplification.
The control hardware for operating the circuit needs to generate and receive readout pulses between 7-8 GHz, generate control pulses between 4-5 GHz, and generate combined DC (for static bias) + RF (for gate operations) flux signals up to 1 GHz.
Novera QPU customers can integrate with many quantum computing software platforms to research and develop quantum algorithms, characterize qubits, and run QEC experiments.
Deliver quantum computing solutions powered by the Novera QPU without having to build complex integrations.
Hardware and software dedicated to quantum error correction will increase performance in quantum computing algorithm and application development on the road to fault tolerance.
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Oxford Instruments NanoScience, a leading provider of cryogenic systems, today announces that it has joined the Novera™ QPU Partner Program. This addition strengthens the program's ecosystem of quantum computing hardware, software, and service providers who build and offer integral components of functional quantum computing systems.
The Novera QPU Partner Program aims to enable high-performing, on-premises quantum computing by creating an ecosystem of quantum computing hardware, software, and service providers who build and offer integral components of a functional quantum computing system. Novera QPU customers can work with Novera QPU partners to build a quantum computer powered by the Novera QPU that satisfies their system requirements and quantum computing research objectives.
Rigetti sells Novera QPU to Horizon Quantum Computing for its first quantum computing system in its newly opened hardware testbed in Singapore.
The first system will be based on a Novera™ quantum processor from Rigetti Computing and OPX1000, the processor-based quantum controller from Quantum Machines. The integrated system is expected to be installed by early 2025.
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The Novera QPU is Rigetti’s first commercially available QPU. The QPU includes a 9-qubit chip that features tunable couplers for fast 2-qubit operations and a 5-qubit chip for testing single-qubit operations. The Novera QPU is based on Rigetti’s fourth generation Ankaa-class architecture.
Rigetti is a pioneer in full-stack quantum computing. We have operated quantum computers over the cloud since 2017, and serve global enterprise, government, and research clients through the Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services platform. Our proprietary quantum-classical infrastructure provides high-performance integration with public and private clouds for practical quantum computing.
Our latest innovation, the Novera QPU, is Rigetti’s first QPU that can be purchased for hands-on quantum research and development. Rigetti designs and manufactures our chips in-house at Fab-1, the industry’s first dedicated and integrated quantum device manufacturing facility.
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