For researchers,
by researchers.

Fermilab's QICK is open control hardware in 500+ labs worldwide. Our optimization and calibration modules are integrated into QICK to maximize its performance. Real-time, low-latency quantum feedback with a native pulse-level interface.

Dave Schuster's group — now at Stanford — hosted the first hardware demonstration of direct-collocation optimal control, and Piccolo optimizes the c-iSWAP gate in their quantum-addressable router. Ongoing work closes the optimization-to-calibration loop on their bosonic cavity device.

Crosstalk-robust gate sets — single-qubit gates optimized with Piccolo to suppress always-on crosstalk during parallel execution — cut median error 4× on a 127-qubit IBM Eagle processor, with a locality decomposition that keeps the optimization linear in qubit count. Led by Andy Goldschmidt, a Harmoniqs advisor at APL, continuing the UChicago Piccolo research line.

Universal global-only pulse control for neutral-atom arrays — engineering effective interactions the hardware doesn't natively support, including the first realization of effective three-body interactions outside the blockade regime.

First hardware demonstration of direct-collocation quantum optimal control, outperforming GRAPE on standard benchmarks. IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering QTEM Best Paper, 2nd Place (2023).

Optimal-control approaches to quantum sensing — programming an optical lattice interferometer with direct-collocation methods for improved speed and sensitivity beyond standard protocols.

Novel bosonic operations for quantum error correction — new classes of error-corrected quantum computation enabled by direct-collocation pulse synthesis on superconducting cavity systems.