https://www.riken.jp/pr/news/2025/20250212_1/index.html
Quantinuum from Colorado, USA, and RIKEN have announced the completion of the installation of Quantinuum’s quantum computer “Reimei” at the RIKEN Wako Campus in Saitama Prefecture. RIKEN has designed, prepared and built a world-class facility for ion-trap quantum computers. This facility is expected to lead to even higher performance quantum systems in the future.
The newly installed state-of-the-art quantum computer is already operational. Quantinuum’s quantum computer is the only system that uses a unique architecture that allows for the physical movement of qubits, paving the way for previously difficult research and development. World-class facilities have been designed, built, and maintained to maximize the performance of Quantinuum’s quantum computer, and their stable operation supports the system’s outstanding performance and stable operation.
The deployment will be part of RIKEN’s project to build a quantum-HPC hybrid platform consisting of high-performance computing systems, such as the supercomputer Fugaku and quantum computers. The integrated hardware platform will support a large-scale software research program in which researchers at RIKEN – together with collaborators Softbank, University of Tokyo, and Osaka University – will develop the software tools and applications required to integrate quantum computers and supercomputers most effectively.
As the project goal, RIKEN and its collaborators aim to demonstrate the advantages of such hybrid computational platforms for deployment as services in the future post-5G era. This project is commissioned by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), a national research and development agency under Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
