Founder and chief quantum officer, Stephanie Simmons, at the Photonic Inc. lab in Coquitlam, B.C, in November, 2023.

All three Canadian companies participating in a U.S. government effort to determine if quantum computers can operate at a practical scale within the next decade have advanced to the second stage of the program.

On Thursday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research and development arm of the U.S. military, announced that the Canadian trio – Nord Quantique of Sherbrooke, Que., Photonic Inc. of Coquitlam, B.C., and Toronto-based Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. – are among 11 companies it has chosen to take part in Stage B of its Quantum Benchmark Initiative .

The goal of the initiative is to identify which approach to quantum computing – if any – has a

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