Oqtant online this week, June 11-13
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Dear Oqtant community,
Oqtant is online this week!
June 11-13, 10 a.m. – 3 PM MT (UTC-6)
June 11 – 13
June 25 – 27
July 9 – 11
July 23 – 25
August 6 – 8
New dashboard!
Logging into the Oqtant web application now takes you to a new dashboard with helpful information like the online schedule, machine diagnostic run data (“heartbeat jobs”), and more job and quota details.
10x time resolution improvement!
>>Upgrade OqtAPI now<<
Time resolution for barrier, time-of-flight, terminator, and lifetime is now 100μs, a 10x improvement. This involved a breaking change from previous versions of OqtAPI, so please update now. New notebooks with the changes are also available.
From a terminal, run:
pip install --upgrade oqtant
Or from within a Jupyter notebook, run:
%pip install --upgrade oqtant
We hope you are as inspired as we are to see Oqtant already being put to good use. Whether on social media, the Oqtant Slack Workspace, or directly with us, we want to hear about your exploration and promote your Oqtant successes.
Best wishes,
Alex Tingle and the #Oqtant Team
Alex.Tingle@Infleqtion.com
Oqtant@Infleqtion.com
Oqtant.Infleqtion.com
Upcoming Schedule:
June 25 – 27
July 9 – 11
July 23 – 25
August 6 – 8
10x time resolution improvement!
>>Upgrade OqtAPI now<<
Time resolution for barrier, time-of-flight, terminator, and lifetime is now 100μs, a 10x improvement. This involved a breaking change from previous versions of OqtAPI, so please update now. New notebooks with the changes are also available.
From a terminal, run:
pip install --upgrade oqtant
Or from within a Jupyter notebook, run:
%pip install --upgrade oqtant
We hope you are as inspired as we are to see Oqtant already being put to good use. Whether on social media, the Oqtant Slack Workspace, or directly with us, we want to hear about your exploration and promote your Oqtant successes.
Best wishes,
Alex Tingle and the #Oqtant Team
Alex.Tingle@Infleqtion.com
Oqtant@Infleqtion.com
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- May 27, 2024 Oqtant is online this week!
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April 2024
- Apr 30, 2024 Oqtant updates: NEW Atomtronic Terminator!
- Apr 15, 2024 Oqtant's Improved Job Wait Times & Quotas
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March 2024
- Mar 25, 2024 Oqtant Community Update - March 26th
- Mar 20, 2024 Oqtant Community Update - March 20th
- February 2024
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January 2024
- Jan 30, 2024 Oqtant Community Update - Slack workspace, Multiple Slit Interference Demo Notebook, & Simulator
- Jan 17, 2024 What is a Bose-Einstein Condensate?
Oqtant is online this week!
Oqtant is online this week, May 28-30. Oqtant user Joshua John’s recent story on Medium explores dark solitons in BECs, which “offer a unique avenue for exploring nonlinear phenomena and hold promise for QIP applications.”
Dear Oqtant Community,
Oqtant is online this week!
May 28 – May 30
10 AM – 3 PM MT (UTC-6)
Upcoming Schedule:
June 11 – 13
June 25 – 27
July 9 – 11
July 23 – 25
Community Feature
Interested in being featured? Tag #Oqtant and @Infleqtion, or email us about what you’re working on!
We hope you are as inspired as we are to see Oqtant already being put to good use. Whether on social media, the Oqtant Slack Workspace, or directly with us, we want to hear about your exploration and promote your Oqtant successes.
Best wishes,
Alex Tingle and the Oqtant Team
Oqtant is online this week, May 14-16
Dear Oqtant Community,
Oqtant is online this week!
May 14 – May 16
10 AM – 3 PM MT (UTC-6)
We hope you are as inspired as we are to see Oqtant already being put to good use. Whether on social media, the Oqtant Slack Workspace, or directly with us, we want to hear about your exploration and promote your Oqtant successes.
Best wishes,
Alex Tingle and the Oqtant Team
Oqtant@Infleqtion.com
Oqtant.Infleqtion.com
Oqtant updates: NEW Atomtronic Terminator!
Announcing the new Atomtronic Terminator!
This is a new tool for your Oqtant toolbox, giving you a different type of dynamic control of your quantum matter. Learn more and try it out yourself with the new Terminator Walkthrough Juypter Notebook.
Announcing the new Atomtronic Terminator!
This is a new tool for your Oqtant toolbox, giving you a different type of dynamic control of your quantum matter. Learn more and try it out yourself with the new Terminator Walkthrough Juypter Notebook.
You can think of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) like a battery: while an electric battery operates at a fixed electric potential (voltage), an “atomtronic” BEC battery operates at a fixed chemical potential for a neutral system.
Oqtant’s terminator laser beam functions as an atomtronic ground, removing atoms from a cloud of trapped atoms by optically pumping them to an untrapped state. The terminator beam can be pulsed on for a few milliseconds or left on for the entire experiment, in which case it acts like a drain.
Similarly, you can create a “wire” for a current of neutral atoms by making a flat potential surface that is bounded on the sides using magnetic fields and a painted potential landscape.
Oqtant’s introduction of the terminator unlocks new tools for a larger research community to explore elements critical to building atomtronic circuits for applications like sensing and simulation.
We hope you are as inspired as we are to see Oqtant already being put to good use. Whether on social media, the Oqtant Slack Workspace, or directly with us, we want to hear about your exploration and promote your Oqtant successes.
Best wishes,
Alex Tingle and the Oqtant Team
Oqtant@Infleqtion.com
Oqtant.Infleqtion.com
Oqtant's Improved Job Wait Times & Quotas
We hope you had a wonderful World Quantum Day! April 14th references Planck’s constant (4.1356677×10−15 eV⋅s), a fundamental quantum physics constant. Did you know that Bose-Einstein condensates can only be made from bosons, particles with a total spin that is an integer multiple of Planck’s constant (h) divided by 2π?
Dear Oqtant Community,
Upcoming Schedule:
April 30 - May 2
May 14 - 16
May 28 - 30
June 11 - 13
What’s New?
>> Please update to the latest OqtAPI version (1.12.0)
Improved job run and queue times: Jobs now take nearly half the time to run, meaning the queue will process about twice as fast. Less waiting, more quantum matter.
We hope you are as inspired as we are to see Oqtant already being put to good use. Whether on social media, the Oqtant Slack Workspace, or directly with us, we want to hear about your exploration and promote your Oqtant successes.
Best wishes,
Alex Tingle and the Oqtant Team
Oqtant Community Update - March 26th
Dear Oqtant Community,
Oqtant is online this week!
March 26 - 28, 10 AM – 3 PM MT (UTC-6)
The following two weeks are a planned maintenance period (stability, new features, general performance, and bug fixes), and then our every-other-week cadence will resume:
April 16 - 18
April 30 - May 2
May 14 - 16
May 28 - 30
Note: these dates are a correction from an email sent on March 20th.
Dear Oqtant Community,
March 26 - 28, 10 AM – 3 PM MT (UTC-6)
The following two weeks are a planned maintenance period (stability, new features, general performance, and bug fixes), and then our every-other-week cadence will resume:
April 16 - 18
April 30 - May 2
May 14 - 16
May 28 - 30
Note: these dates are a correction from an email sent on March 20th.
Oqtant in the Classroom
Did you know that Oqtant is already in classrooms? We’re excited to work with educators to make Oqtant an accessible and powerful tool for students at all levels and backgrounds to advance quantum literacy (and skills in experimental design, data analysis, and programming).
We hope you are as inspired as we are to see Oqtant already being put to good use. Whether on social media, the Oqtant Slack Workspace, or directly with us, we want to hear about your exploration and promote your Oqtant successes.
Best wishes,
Alex Tingle and the Oqtant Team
Oqtant Community Update - March 20th
Dear Oqtant Community,
Oqtant will be online next week!
March 26 - 28, 10 AM – 3 PM MT (UTC-6)
Dear Oqtant Community,
Oqtant will be online next week!
March 26 - 28, 10 AM – 3 PM MT (UTC-6)
Following is a planned maintenance period (stability, new features, general performance and bug fixes), then our every-other-week cadence will resume:
3/26-28
4/16-18
4/30-5/2
5/14-16
5/28-30
What does ONLINE/OFFLINE mean?
Congratulations, winners of the Quantum Leap Year Challenge!
People from all over the world completed the challenges and shared their successes on LinkedIn and Twitter (check out #Oqtant). Congratulations to all winners, including Ali Lezeik who won the grand prize of 250 job credits (worth $2,500 USD)!
#Oqtant allows you to generate BECs of Rb atoms in magnetic traps, manipulate them with blue detuned optical potentials and more knobs that I haven't tweaked yet. pic.twitter.com/ROmY8kQDuY
— Ali Lezeik (علي يوسف) (@lelezeik) March 5, 2024
I can split a Bose-Einstein condensate into two equal halves simply by tagging #ChuckNorris.#oqtant @infleqtion pic.twitter.com/ibAhxz0d6J
— Brian N. Siegelwax (@BSiegelwax) March 12, 2024
I was able to clear Demonstrate shape inversion using #Oqtant. I feel the progress as ordinary people can now conduct such experiments. In the future, the world of quantum physics will likely become even more accessible to the general public.
— nono (@BHvZCWOHNBYLRDf) March 14, 2024
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6,8(ms)@infleqtion pic.twitter.com/4KZCSXUeX9
We hope you are as inspired as we are to see Oqtant already being put to good use. Whether on social media, the Oqtant Slack Workspace, or directly with us, we want to hear about your exploration and promote your Oqtant successes.
Best wishes,
Alex Tingle and the Oqtant Team
Oqtant Community Update - Quantum Leap Year Challenge
Dear Oqtant community, Oqtant is online this week (and next week AND the following week)! Feb 27 - March 14th on Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday, 10 AM – 3 PM.
Dear Oqtant Community,
Oqtant is online this week (and next week and the following week)!
February 27th - March 14th
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. MT (UTC-7)
Oqtant’s Quantum Leap Year Challenge
Leap Year only occurs once every 7 years, and Oqtant will be online for a bonus week (February 27 - March 14). During this three-week period, you’ll have the chance to win one of 16 prizes, ranging from a $25 USD Visa gift card to Oqtant job credits worth up to $2,500.
Find more details on how to join the fun on the challenge page and see the latest updates on the Oqtant Slack Workspace. Rules and terms apply.
New Demo Notebook: Collective Modes
You can use the Oqtant Simulator to explore outputs not available on the hardware, such as dynamics of the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) at all times, and properties of the condensate's wave function (the collective quantum state occupied by thousands of atoms), including its phase. In this new demo notebook, we show how to use phase information to understand better what is happening with the condensate.
Are you attending the APS March Meeting?
So are we! I (Alex) will be presenting Oqtant: democratizing quantum research and education with cloud-accessible quantum matter on March 6th. Visit us at booth 1629 in the exhibit hall to see live demos and chat with the team. Email us if you’d like to set up time to talk – we’d love to see you!
Funding Opportunity
Have you seen the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s new solicitation for proposals to the Expand Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE) program? We encourage you to consider implementing Oqtant in this proposal. If you are interested, contact us and we can develop a budget that will meet your goals. LOIs are due March 08, 2024.
We hope you are as inspired as we are to see Oqtant already being put to good use. Whether on social media, the Oqtant Slack Workspace, or directly with us, we want to hear about your exploration and promote your Oqtant successes.
Best wishes,
Alex Tingle and the Oqtant Team
NSF’s ExpandQISE program for quantum research and education funding
The NSF’s ExpandQISE program aims to expand capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE). Infleqtion’s cloud-based quantum matter research lab, Oqtant, and the newly unveiled desqtopMOT are particularly aligned with the goals of ExpandQISE. Both platforms provide state-of-the-art tools for quantum research and education.
There’s an exceptional opportunity that could significantly advance your quantum research initiatives: National Science Foundation’s ExpandQISE program, which aims to expand capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE).
Infleqtion’s cloud-based quantum matter research lab, Oqtant, and the newly unveiled desqtopMOT are particularly aligned with the goals of the ExpandQISE program. Both platforms provide state-of-the-art tools for quantum research and education. By incorporating these platforms into your program, you have the chance to amplify both the scope and impact of your work, contributing to the NSF’s mission of expanding research capacity and educational opportunities in QISE.
Learn, research, and develop with quantum matter
Oqtant is the only online platform that offers the creation and visual exploration of quantum effects (such as interference, superposition, and wave functions), with a flexible set of controls to program time-varying optical fields and fine-tune experiments.
Explore, educate, and empower the workforce of tomorrow with the desqtopMOT cold atom platform
We're enthusiastic about the prospect of collaborating with you. If you're interested in submitting a proposal, please contact us at sales@infleqtion.com to collaborate before the March 8th deadline for letters of intent.
Oqtant Community Update - NSF Quantum Research Funding
Oqtant is online this week! February 13 - 15, 10 AM – 3 PM MT (UTC-7)
Have you seen the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s new solicitation for proposals for the Expand Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE) program?
Dear Oqtant Community,
February 13 - 15, 10 AM – 3 PM MT (UTC-7)
NSF Funding Opportunity: Expand Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE) program
Have you seen the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s new solicitation for proposals for the Expand Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (ExpandQISE) program? We encourage you to consider implementing Oqtant in this proposal. If you are interested, contact us, and we can develop a budget that will meet your goals. LOIs are due March 08, 2024.
We hope you are as inspired as we are to see Oqtant already being put to good use. Whether on social media, the Oqtant Slack Workspace, or directly with us, we want to hear about your exploration and promote your Oqtant successes.
Best wishes,
Alex Tingle and the Oqtant Team
Oqtant Community Update - Slack workspace, Multiple Slit Interference Demo Notebook, & Simulator
Oqtant is online this week with several exciting additions, including a new Slack workspace, a new Multiple Slit Interference Demo Notebook, and a simulator.
Oqtant is online this week with EXTENDED HOURS*
January 30 – February 1, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. MT (UTC-7)
Dear Oqtant Community,
Oqtant is online this week with several exciting additions, including a new Slack workspace, a new Multiple Slit Interference Demo Notebook, and a simulator.
Join the Oqtant Slack workspace!
On Slack, you can ask technical questions, share and explore cool ideas and applications, connect with the Oqtant community, and be the first to hear about new and exciting updates.
Observe interference between many Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs)
Like the original double slit experiment, which used two slits to demonstrate the wave-particle duality of matter, the Multiple Slit Interference Demo Notebook uses many slits (created with an array of optical potential barriers) to demonstrate the wavelike nature of the Bose-Einstein condensates. Learn more in the new demo notebook!
Are you attending Quantum West?
Come say hi at Infleqtion’s Quantum West booth 7207 (South Upper Mezzanine), see live demos of our upcoming release, and chat with the team. Attend our session Oqtant: democratizing quantum research and education on 1/31. Please email us if you’d like to set up a time to talk – we’d love to see you! *Our online hours will be extended an additional three hours each day this week to support live demos at the booth.
We hope you are as inspired as we are to see Oqtant already being put to good use. Whether on social media or directly with us, we want to hear about your exploration and promote your Oqtant successes.
Best wishes,
Alex Tingle and the #Oqtant Team
What is a Bose-Einstein Condensate?
How the Fifth State of Matter Will Advance Medical Imaging, Navigation, and Sensing
How the Fifth State of Matter Will Advance Medical Imaging, Navigation, and Sensing
A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a unique state of matter. Imagine a group of particles moving together in the same direction and at the same speed, behaving like one. This is what happens in a BEC. These particles, known as bosons, get so cold that they start acting like a single, large particle. This state can only occur at extremely low temperatures, near absolute zero.
The theory began with exploration by Satyendra Nath Bose, who sent his paper detailing the beginnings of a field that would be later called “Bose-Einstein statistics” to Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein expanded on this in the early 20th century to predict Bose-Einstein condensates.
However, it took until 1995 for scientists to create the first BEC in a lab. The Nobel Prize in Physics recognized the breakthrough in creating Bose-Einstein condensates in the laboratory in 2001. It was awarded to Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl E. Wieman, the scientists who successfully produced and studied BECs for the first time. Their work opened the door to a new era in quantum physics, providing a practical way to observe and experiment with quantum phenomena in the macroscopic world.
Why Bose-Einstein Condensates Matter
Bose-Einstein condensates have unique properties, making them incredibly important for understanding the quantum world. Usually, quantum effects are only observable at the level of tiny particles. However, BECs are able to demonstrate quantum phenomena on a macroscopic scale. These quantum effects are magnified, making them easier to study and exploit.
In research and academia, BECs can help us explore concepts like superposition and interference – key ideas in quantum physics that describe how particles can exist simultaneously in multiple states and interact with each other as waves and particles.
But Bose-Einstein condensates are not just scientific phenomena with no practical purpose. They are critical to advancements in fields like navigation, GPS, and sensing, as well as studying quantum properties like quantum interference and coherence, tunneling, atomtronics, nonlinear behavior, superposition, and superfluidity.
Applications of Bose-Einstein Condensates Matter
BECs have led to the development of advanced technologies for industry and practical applications. Ultra-cold atoms are even located on the International Space Station!
For example, BECs are used in creating atom lasers. These are like light lasers, but use atoms instead of photons. This technology has applications in ultra-precise measurements and could revolutionize fields like navigation and imaging. BECs are also critical for improving atomic clocks, which are important for GPS technology and international timekeeping. Additionally, they are used in sensors that can detect small changes in gravity, rotation, and magnetic fields, which means they can be used as sensors for many industries.
Environmental Monitoring: Ultra-sensitive Detection
BECs have an extreme sensitivity to environmental changes. At temperatures close to absolute zero, the particles in a BEC respond collectively to the slightest variations in pressure, temperature, or electromagnetic fields. This macroscopic particle has an amplified response, making BECs ideal for creating sensors that can detect subtle environmental changes, from seismic vibrations to atmospheric anomalies.
Medical Advancements: Enhanced Imaging
In medical imaging, specifically MRI, BECs could improve sensitivity and resolution. MRI machines work by aligning the magnetic spins of atoms in the body and then detecting the energy released as these spins return to their natural state. BECs, with their heightened sensitivity to magnetic fields, could enhance this process. This collective behavior of atoms in a BEC can lead to more uniform and stronger magnetic responses, potentially creating clearer and more detailed images.
Navigation Systems: Precise Gravitational Measurements
The accuracy of BECs in detecting gravitational variations is a game-changer for navigation technologies. BECs can sense minute changes in the gravitational field, which can be translated into precise location data. This is especially useful in environments where traditional GPS is unreliable. For instance, in underground or deep-sea explorations, BECs could provide accurate navigational data by sensing gravitational anomalies.
Oqtant: Pioneering Quantum Matter Research
Oqtant by Infleqtion is the first quantum matter platform that offers an invaluable resource for academics and industry leaders to dive into the creation and use of BECs and quantum matter. These developments in BEC research expand our understanding of quantum physics and open doors to new technologies and applications that could transform various sectors.
This platform provides researchers with advanced tools and capabilities to explore and manipulate quantum states and advance BEC research and applications. With its Python API package, this service allows researchers to conduct quantum experiments more easily, and without requiring millions in funding. It also provides tools for precisely controlling and measuring the conditions required for creating and studying BECs to accelerate research and discovery in this field.
Oqtant is shaping the future of quantum matter research by:
Facilitating BEC Research
Creating a laboratory with a Bose-Einstein condensate experiment costs $2M-$5M. Oqtant is designed to simplify and enhance the creation and study of BECs by opening access to quantum matter experimentation. It integrates advanced cooling and trapping technologies, which are critical for achieving the ultra-low temperatures necessary for BEC formation. This integration allows researchers to focus more on their experiments and less on the technical challenges of maintaining BEC conditions.
Offering Advanced Experimentation Tools
The platform offers a range of tools that enable precise control and measurement of quantum states, including a visual platform and a Python API. This includes sophisticated software that can manage and analyze the complex data involved in BEC experiments and pre-written functions that maintain the optimized states for research.
Opening Accessibility and Collaboration
One of the key aspects of Oqtant is its accessibility to researchers across various fields. Oqtant allows more scientists to engage in BEC research, fostering collaboration with industry experts outside of quantum technologies. Additionally, code samples are available on Infleqtion’s website to allow researchers without a quantum physics background to do a Nobel Prize-winning experiment at home. Demo Jupyter notebooks walk you through creating quantum matter, optical barriers and landscapes, and running experiments and batch jobs. This accessibility is crucial for driving innovation and expanding the boundaries of quantum science.
Bose-Einstein Condensates Will Shape Industry and Research
It has only been 25 years since the first BEC was created, and there is still a lot to be uncovered. It remains a topic of interest in industry and academia. Platforms like Oqtant democratize access to BECs, allowing domain experts to use them to improve environmental monitoring, advance medical imaging techniques, and develop more precise navigation systems without having to set up an experiment from scratch.
With ongoing technological advancements and a deeper understanding of quantum mechanics, the next few decades could see significant progress in industry uses of Bose-Einstein condensates. By providing access to easily create and study BECs, Oqtant accelerates the development of quantum technology, precise measurement instruments, and advanced sensing technologies. The platform is instrumental in translating the theoretical aspects of quantum mechanics into practical applications. Looking forward, Oqtant will play a vital role in the future of quantum research.
Sign up for Oqtant, Infleqtion’s platform for making quantum matter. You can create a real Bose-Einstein condensate and observe its properties through the web platform or Python API. Check out oqtant.infleqtion.com for more!