C12 Partners with QC Design and Adopts Plaquette to Accelerate Toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing with Carbon Nanotubes

C12, a Paris-based quantum computing company, has partnered with QC Design to leverage the Plaquette software in simulating and optimizing fault-tolerant quantum computing designs under realistic noise models¹. This collaboration aims to accelerate the development of carbon nanotube-based quantum computing, which has shown promise in achieving coherence times significantly larger than previously measured in carbon-based quantum circuits. By utilizing isotopically purified carbon-12 nanotubes suspended above silicon chips, C12's platform enables the evaluation of quantum low-density parity-check codes compatible with its high-connectivity architecture. The adoption of Plaquette software is a crucial step towards achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing, a milestone that would significantly enhance the reliability and scalability of quantum computing systems. This development matters to practitioners as it brings the industry closer to overcoming the noise and error correction challenges that have hindered the widespread adoption of quantum computing technology.