SpinQ Announces Launch of SPINQ Gemini Lab — A One-Stop Experimental Platform For Quantum Computing

Insider Brief

• SpinQ announced the company is launching the SPINQ Gemini Lab, a 2-qubit quantum computing platform designed for university education and research, in Europe and North America.
• The company said SPINQ Gemini Lab is designed to explore the entire process of quantum computing as a “one-stop” open interactive experience.
• Considered the first “desk-top” quantum computer, SpinQ’s devices are based on the nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, approach to quantum processing.

PRESS RELEASE — The rapid development of quantum computing has driven the great demand for quantum talents and also stimulated the booming development of the quantum education market in the past few years. Facing the shortage of teachers, expensive teaching aids and equipment, bulky size, and high maintenance costs, many universities and related organizations have raised more expectations for ideal quantum computing teaching aids and lesson plans.

In response to the quantum education market, SpinQ launched  the world’s first NMR Quantum Computer that can be placed on the desktop, “SPINQ Gemini” in 2020. Subsequently, SpinQ introduced  more compact and portable – “SPINQ Gemini Mini”, “SPINQ Triangulum Mini” and “SPINQ Gemini Mini Pro”. By harnessing and innovating the MRI technology, we have integrated the functions of quantum computing into a lightweight body similar to the size of a mini-printer, truly making quantum computers “At your fingertips”.

With the advantages of small size, lightweight, maintenance-free, easy to operate, etc., the miniaturized quantum computer series products can provide teachers and scientific research workers with convenient solutions for teaching and demonstrating quantum computation, and once launched, it has quickly gained the favor of industrial users, and has continued to expand to more than 30 countries and regions in five continents around the world. As demand deepens, many users not only want a set of teaching equipment suitable for the classroom environment but also have higher requirements for the operability and interactivity of the equipment.

“One-stop” Quantum Computing Experiment Platform

Full openness of underlying operation and visualization of experimental phenomena

To allow users to have a more open operation and interaction experience in experimental learning, SpinQ has built a quantum computing platform focused on experimental teaching scenarios – “SPINQ Gemini Lab“.

By designing the entire process of quantum computing as a “one-stop” open interactive experience, “SPINQ Gemini Lab” enables users to truly experience the complete process from recognizing the quantum system, measuring the quantum system, controlling the quantum system, and realizing the quantum computing tasks through real participation in each step of the underlying operation of the experiment.

For example, the basic principle of a nuclear magnetic quantum computer is to use the spin property of the nucleus in the sample reagent as the carrier of quantum bits to complete the preparation of quantum states, and to use the emission of RF pulse signals to manipulate and read the quantum bit states, and then to complete the related quantum computation tasks.

In the past, this process was more like a “black box”: users could only see the final result of the computation task through the limited quantum line design and the operation interface, but could not observe the whole process of the complete quantum computation experiments, such as the creation of quantum states and the manipulation of quantum bits.

Unlike other real teaching products and simulators in the past, “SPINQ Gemini Lab” adopts a new open chassis design, which allows users to visualize the important internal structures of the experiment sample, magnet module, homogeneous field control module, RF control module, master control module, etc., and allows students to understand the knowledge and principles related to quantum computing in real practice. computing-related knowledge and principles, rather than relying on imagination to understand those abstract concepts as in the past.

Through SPINQ Gemini Lab, users can directly manipulate and control the intensity and frequency of RF pulses, and through the visualization interface, observe the state of the nucleus and the degree of quantum state in the sample, and test how to manipulate the quantum bits to perform computational tasks, thus helping students to more intuitively and deeply understand the basic principles of quantum computation, technology and applications.

As a NMR quantum computing platform focusing on experimental scenarios, SPINQ Gemini Lab is specially designed for the requirements of university experiment teaching mode, covering clear experimental purposes, experimental steps, and experimental phenomena, and can be directly adapted to physics experiments, modern physics experiments, research physics experiments, and other existing university experimental courses, truly achieving “out-of-the-box use by teachers and out-of-the-box learning by students”. It can be directly adapted to existing university experiment courses such as physics experiments, modern physics experiments, research physics experiments, etc., which can be used by teachers out of the box and learned by students out of the box. 

By configuring a full-stack quantum computing lab solution, SPINQ Gemini Lab can provide a variety of lab classes to meet the needs of different stages of teaching.

For example, the “Quantum Computing Principle Experiment” built into SPINQ Gemini Lab is a systematic experiment course from observing physical phenomena and measuring quantum parameters, to regulating quantum systems and realizing quantum computing tasks, including nuclear magnetic resonance phenomena and signals, Rabi Oscillation, quantum bits, quantum decoherence, quantum control, quantum system initialization, quantum logic gates, and quantum circuits, quantum state reconfiguration, and verification of Bell’s inequality are included in the course. 9 sub-experiments are designed to allow students with no basic knowledge of quantum computation to practice quantum computation step by step, starting from the underlying principles.

For higher level needs, “SPINQ Gemini Lab” can also help students learn classical quantum algorithms such as Shor and Grover through graphical programming and quantum programming language for specific application problems, and experimentally verify them in quantum systems from the physical bottom; or learn various quantum technologies such as quantum simulation, quantum precision measurement, quantum communication, spin magnetic resonance, pulse modulation technology, etc. by replacing the experimental samples and designing peripheral instruments and equipment, and interactive experiments. peripheral instrumentation, designing pulse waveforms, interactive experiments, etc., to learn a variety of quantum technologies, such as quantum simulation, quantum precision measurement, quantum communication, spin-magnetic resonance, and pulse modulation techniques.

In addition to teaching experiments, “SPINQ Gemini Lab” can also be used as a platform for research experiments, such as quantum optimization algorithms, quantum simulation, optimal control, and other semi-open exploratory experiments, which can also be used as a platform for research experiments on quantum information. 

It is worth mentioning that for these rich experimental contents, “SPINQ Gemini Lab” has built-in systematic experimental instructions with theoretical contents and experimental step-by-step guidelines so that users can choose experimental operations according to the needs of the course and the time requirements, which optimizes the cost of “teaching” and promotes the development of the “teaching” process. This optimizes the cost of “teaching” and promotes the effect of “learning”.

From the launch of the first desktop NMR Quantum Computer ” SpinQ Gemini” four years ago to the first portable NMR Quantum Computer “SpinQ Gemini Mini” and related products two years ago, SpinQ has always insisted on the concept of “user-centric”, and optimized and polished the products from the scenarios and needs, as well as through the feedback from the users. We hope that the arrival of “SPINQ Gemini Lab” will open a new chapter for quantum computing experimental teaching. In the future, SpinQ will continue to upgrade and iterate its products to provide more perfect, efficient, and easy-to-use quantum computing teaching tools, contribute to the cultivation of quantum computing talents in more institutions, and help make quantum computing more accessible.