The plant will be one of the largest cryogenic cooling plants ever built for the specific use of operating a quantum computer. It will cool the cryogenic cabinets containing PsiQuantum\u2019s new Omega chipset and other systems. Quantum computing is expected to drive advancements in healthcare, energy, material design, and encryption while the project in Brisbane further develops Australia\u2019s quantum ecosystem across academia, commercial partnerships and supply chains.<\/p>\n
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A Linde expert checking a coldbox, similar size to the application in Brisbane. Copyright: Linde<\/p>\n
The large-scale cryogenic cooling infrastructure will achieve the required 4 Kelvin range (-269 \u00b0C, -452 \u00b0F). Linde Engineering is one of very few companies worldwide with the required expertise \u2013 having installed more than 500 cryogenic plants in total. These are serving high-tech industries such as semiconductors, magnetic resonance imagining and supporting scientific applications like particle accelerators and fusion research.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are proud to help PsiQuantum realize their ambitious vision for quantum computing. This collaboration demonstrates how combined expertise can drive advancements in technology and innovation,\u201d says John van der Velden, Senior Vice President Global Sales & Technology, Linde Engineering. \u201cThis technology will help design solutions to address some of the most pressing challenges faced by society today.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPhotons don\u2019t feel to heat the way matter-based qubits do. Our systems can run 100 times warmer \u2013 and we appreciate collaborating with a world-class firm like Linde Engineering to deliver industrial-scale systems with proven technology,\u201d said Jeremy O\u2019Brien, CEO and co-founder of PsiQuantum. \u201cThis is a fundamental scaling advantage and a key reason we are able to move rapidly toward utility-scale quantum computing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cryogenic plant will cool tens of thousands of PsiQuantum\u2019s new Omega photonic chips housed in cabinets that will be networked together with standard optical fiber. Quantum computers use special bits called qubits, which, unlike classical bits, can be in a coherent superposition of multiple states simultaneously. This enables multiple simultaneous computations and thus solve problems much faster than classical computers. Qubits are susceptible to interactions with their environment, such as heat or electromagnetic radiation and cannot function reliably without appropriate cooling, which maintains qubits in a state where they preserve their quantum mechanical properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 12, 2025 | By Mary Bailey Linde Engineering (Pullach, Germany) has signed an agreement with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[3284,3358,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-97064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-quantum-computing","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}