The National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) and Google Quantum AI have announced that King’s College London (King’s) has been awarded exclusive early access to Google’s next-generation Willow quantum processor. Marking the first time Google has formally partnered with a British government institution to share its premium quantum hardware, the initiative was launched as a competitive call for proposals to accelerate progress toward practical quantum advantage. The winning research team, selected over a broad field of rival UK academic consortia, will utilize the error-corrected processor to simulate intricate many-body quantum mechanical interactions, providing a foundational software blueprint to map complex biological, chemical, [...]

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King’s College London was awarded access to Google Quantum AI’s Willow processor through a joint initiative.