IonQ, Inc. is an American quantum computing hardware and software company headquartered in College Park, Maryland. The company develops general-purpose trapped ion quantum computers and accompanying software to generate, optimize, and execute quantum circuits.[3]
History
IonQ was co-founded by Christopher Monroe and Jungsang Kim, professors at Duke University,[4] in 2015,[5] with the help of venture firm New Enterprise Associates.[6]
The company is an offshoot of the co-founders’ 25 years of academic research in quantum information science.[5]