Xanadu and Rolls Royce Collaborate to Add New Functionality to Xanadu's Pennylane Software

Pennylane is a Python-based open-source software framework that provides algorithm libraries for applications including quantum machine learning, quantum chemistry, and quantum computing. It is hardware agnostic and supports many different quantum hardware backends. Xanadu and Rolls-Royce will be working together to develop new functionality that supports a new algorithm for Pennylane called the Quantum Singular Value Transformation (QSVT). This algorithm may be useful for a number of important potential aerospace quantum computing applications including materials chemistry and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This is the second such partnership related to quantum software that Rolls-Royce has been involved in. Last October, software company Classiq announced that they were working with Rolls-Royce on leveraging the quantum HHL algorithm to solve a linear set of equations that are used in hybrid classical/quantum implementation of CFD. Additional information about the collaboration between Xanadu and Rolls-Royce can be found in a press release provided by Xanadu located here.

January 18, 2023