IBM and Delta Air Lines announced that the global airline is embarking on a multi-year collaborative effort with IBM - including joining the IBM Q Network - to explore the potential capabilities of quantum computing to transform experiences for customers and employees. The IBM Q Network is a 100-plus strong global community of Fortune 500 companies, startups, academic institutions and research labs working to advance quantum computing and explore practical applications. Additionally, through the IBM Q Hub at NC State University, Delta will have access to the IBM Q Network's world's largest fleet of universal hardware quantum computers for commercial use cases and fundamental research, including the recently announced 53-qubit quantum computer, which has the most qubits of a universal quantum computer available for external access in the industry, to date.

IBM Advances Quantum Computing Performance: IBM systems recently reached Quantum Volume 32 - a new performance milestone. This metric, developed by IBM, represents how powerful a quantum computer is, including the number of qubits, connectivity, and coherence time, as well as accounting for gate and measurement errors, device cross talk, and circuit software compiler efficiency. The higher the Quantum Volume, the more real-world, complex problems quantum computers can potentially solve, such as those being explored by Delta, and all IBM Q Network organizations.

IBM has doubled its systems' Quantum Volume every year since 2016. For further details about how Quantum Volume is calculated, and the progress it delivers, read the blog.