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Photonic Inc.

Photonic Inc. builds fault-tolerant quantum computers from silicon spin qubits, using phosphorus atoms in silicon and photonic interconnects to link qubits. The company is developing scalable, networked quantum processors for commercial applications, with a strong focus on error correction.

AI-written profile · not yet reviewed · 27 August 2026

Headquarters
Vancouver, Canada
Founded
2016
Status
Private
spin qubitquantum networking

Coverage

Quantum Zeitgeist

A new code cuts qubit needs for quantum logic, Photonic reports

Photonic has reported a family of QLDPC codes, called SHYPS, that can perform quantum computation and error correction using fewer physical qubits than surface codes. The result points to reduced overhead for fault-tolerant quantum logic.

OutlookPlausible

If the SHYPS code can be implemented on Photonic's hardware, it could allow demonstration of a fault-tolerant logical qubit on a photonic processor with significantly fewer physical components than surface-code approaches would require within two years.

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HPCwire

Photonic’s SHYPS Quantum Error Correction Research Published in Nature Communications

Photonic Inc. has published a paper in Nature Communications describing its SHYPS family of quantum error correction codes. The work focuses on quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes, which reduce the number of physical qubits needed to run a given program and could bring forward the arrival of commercially useful quantum computers.

OutlookPlausible

Photonic could use SHYPS codes to demonstrate an error-corrected logical qubit on a significantly smaller device than surface-code overhead would require.

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