Logical Qubit Emulator: Alice & Bob releases Felis 1.0, featuring the first-ever logical qubit emulator.
Transition to Fault-Tolerant Algorithms: Felis helps users prepare for practical quantum computing by facilitating the shift from NISQ to fault-tolerant algorithms.
Collaboration with Classiq: Felis is now available as an execution backend on the Classiq platform, enhancing algorithm development.
Alice & Bob has announced Felis 1.0, a toolbox featuring the first-ever logical qubit emulator, aimed at helping users prepare for practical quantum computing. Felis allows users to facilitate the transition from Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices to fault-tolerant algorithms, enabling them to work with logical qubits and predict their behavior.
Logical qubits are necessary to achieve the level of reliability that quantum computers need to be useful. However, they come with noticeable differences compared to today's quantum hardware. Quantum algorithm developers will need to recompile their algorithms and minimize the overhead introduced by error correction. Logical qubit emulation serves as a key tool to examine how future quantum computers will differ from current devices, to understand what to expect from them, and to start optimizing algorithms accordingly.
"Many business leaders have yet to realize that the quantum algorithms their teams develop will not work as-is on an industry-grade quantum computer."
— Théau Peronnin, CEO of Alice & Bob
Built on top of Qiskit, the popular quantum computing framework, Felis leverages the power of the Qiskit ecosystem while adding cat-qubit-specific capabilities. It enables the execution of logical quantum algorithms and workflows designed for useful quantum computers based on cat qubits, offering a comprehensive platform for algorithm development and logical qubit experimentation.
Felis users can tune hardware parameters and error rates to model their algorithms on different expected hardware maturity levels, both short and long-term. The goal of Felis's flexibility is to explore quantum error correction techniques with logical qubits based on the innovative cat qubit, allowing researchers to observe potential gains in hardware efficiency and overhead reduction enabled by Alice & Bob's platform.
“This integration combines Alice & Bob’s Felis toolbox, an invaluable resource to explore the practical implications of logical qubits, with Classiq’s platform and synthesis engine, the partnership allows developers and researchers to bridge today’s quantum innovations with tomorrow’s fault-tolerant breakthroughs,”
— Nir Minerbi, CEO of Classiq Technologies
Alice & Bob has also updated Felis to make it compatible with IBM Qiskit 1.2, allowing developers to leverage its latest improvements, including faster compilation and emulation. Felis's logical qubit emulator is now available as an execution backend on the Classiq platform, enabling quantum algorithm developers to optimize their circuits for logical qubits and study their sensitivity to noise.
Because some quantum circuits are too large to emulate for current classical and quantum hardware alike, Felis will soon be equipped with a resource estimator for cat qubits that projects the qubits and resources required for building large quantum circuits. This resource estimator already exists as a standalone application.
