China Telecom Launches 2,682-Photon Quantum Computer for Cloud Access

1 articles · Updated · China Daily · Jun 23

Tianyan-P2000 has entered formal operation on China Telecom’s Tianyan quantum cloud, giving researchers and developers worldwide online access to the new photonic system.
The machine can control 2,682 photons and finished a benchmark computation in 29 microseconds—a task developers said would take classical supercomputers about 16 billion years.
China Telecom said the launch makes Tianyan the first cloud platform offering quantum-advantage services through both photonic and superconducting technologies, and China’s first online photonic quantum-advantage service.
Built with Jiuzhang (Jinan) Quantum Technology and based on the Jiuzhang 4.0 architecture reported in Nature in May, the system is aimed at graph analysis, drug discovery, spectral computation and machine vision.
Photonic quantum computing’s room-temperature operation, longer coherence times and easier links to fiber networks could broaden use of a platform that has already logged 50 million visits and served users in more than 60 countries and regions.