DARPA’s new HARQ program aims to revolutionize quantum computing by moving away from single-qubit technologies and toward heterogeneous architectures. Much like classical computers use a mix of CPUs and GPUs, HARQ integrates different types of qubits into a single system to leverage their unique strengths.
Through two key workstreams—MOSAIC (software/compilers) and QSB (hardware interconnects)—19 research teams will spend the next two years developing the tools needed to scale quantum machines, potentially unlocking breakthroughs in materials science, medicine, and national security that are currently out of reach for “one-size-fits-all” systems.
Performer teams:
Mosaic
- Infleqtion
- MemQ
- Q-CTRL
- University of Michigan
- University of Pennsylvania
QSB
- Australian National University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- Harvard University
- IonQ
- Stanford University
- University of California Berkeley
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
*17 of the 19 teams are on contract; two are still in negotiation. DARPA will update this announcement once those agreements are signed.
