Speakers: Kanav Setia, CEO, qBraid
What does your company specialize in?
Kanav Setia: Hi, my name is Kanav Setia and I'm a co-founder and CEO of qBraid. qBraid specializes in quantum software. qBraid lab provides users a one-stop platform to access the entire quantum ecosystem in under five minutes. Anyone in the world can sign up on qBraid and get access to quantum software from over 15 different companies and quantum computers from over five different companies all in under a matter of minutes.
Why did you choose to partner with QuEra?
Kanav Setia: QuEra Computing is a company built on solid fundamental research. Their progress over the past years and their recent demonstrations have convinced the world that neutral-atom quantum computing architecture is quite scalable. And this is precisely the reason why we partner with them. At qBraid, One of our main goals is to use near term quantum computers to deliver advantages for real world use cases. And QuEra quantum computers remain one of the most advanced in the world. And this is why we're super excited to be partnering with them.
Together with QuEra, what benefits are you hoping to deliver to customers?
Kanav Setia: Together with QuEra, we're building a quantum software pipeline for quantum chemistry problems. Specifically, we're focusing on drug and protein interaction. In our pipeline, we start with a giant protein molecule and use methods such as fragment molecular orbital method to chop it up into smaller fragments. So once we have these fragments, we analyze to understand which of these fragments are hard to be simulated using classical digital computers. These fragments which are hard classically are then sent to our quantum software pipeline. Within our quantum software pipeline. We use methods such as LASUCC, short for Local Active Space Unitary Coupled Cluster or quantum bootstrap embedding and the short form being QBE. These are quantum fragmentation techniques, meaning these are fragmentation techniques which are meant to be run on a quantum computer. Within these techniques, we use something called generalized superfast encoding. And these encodings allow us to go from a fermionic system to a system made out of qubits. And the best part about these encodings is that they have inherent error correction properties. They allow us to do in some cases, error correction or they could also be configured to do an error mitigation. So the entire pipeline is being built and being optimized to be run on QuEra's neutral-atom quantum computer. And we believe that together this pipeline could serve a whole lot of customers across various industries. We can target material science companies, we can target pharmaceutical companies or we can target many quantum simulation companies.
