As we implement the strategy, the Australian Government will continue to monitor the progress against the listed measures of success. The quantum sector is still emerging, and some indicators have a publication lag time, which presents challenges in collecting data to support ongoing measurement. The Australian Government is identifying and collating available data to measure the quality of outcomes in the strategy. This data supports the benchmarking process, which needs continual improvement and iteration. To set useful targets, we need a full suite of measures of success data on the growth and performance of Australia’s quantum industry. Targets will be set for the measures of success following the establishment of all benchmark metrics.
The following table includes available data points, and facts and figures to show, where practicable, progress against the measures of success. We expect the data coverage for the measures of success indicators will grow as data becomes available. Note: the information on the following pages presents a mix of metrics we will continue to monitor and point-in-time insights. The metrics shaded grey are point-in-time insights that give further context relevant to the indicators, but which may not form part of our long-term data collection strategy. All data is as at August 2024 unless otherwise noted.
Indicator: Australia is realising the transformational impacts of quantum technologies across finance, healthcare, agriculture, environment, energy, defence, transport, resources, space and other sectors
Since the launch of the strategy, quantum businesses announced 22 new domestic collaborations (based on publicly available information).
Advanced Navigation:
- awarded a Moon to Mars Initiative: Demonstrator Mission grant by the Australian Space Agency for their Light Detection, Altimetry and Velocimetry (LiDAV) technology, which seeks to develop advanced navigation technologies, such as quantum sensing
- received a grant from Department of Defence to advance domestic manufacturing capability for photonic chips
- received a Cooperative Research Centres Project (CRC-P) grant through Round 15 in partnership with the University of Technology Sydney and Transparent Earth Geophysics (formerly CMG Operations) to test their LiDAV technology in real world environments on ground vehicles, drones and light aircraft.
Advanced Navigation and Mog Laboratories:
- are involved in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science to explore optical frequency combs by building on the latest breakthroughs in physics.
Diraq:
- received a CRC-P grant through Round 14 in partnership with the University of NSW Sydney and Perceptia Devices to create a quantum control unit that can integrate with Diraq’s quantum logic unit.
- partnered with the University of New South Wales to support an Australian Research Council Industry Laureate Fellowship grant of value $3.8m plus $1m from Diraq, led by UNSW Professor Alex Hamilton, to develop hole-based silicon qubits of direct relevance to Diraq’s R&D roadmap.
- partnered with the University of New South Wales to support an Australian Research Council Early-Career Industry Fellowship for Dr Nard Dumoulin Stuyck in 2024, related to the development of Diraq’s silicon-CMOS-based quantum computing technology.
Diraq and Q-Ctrl:
- are delivering 3 projects together – Diraq will develop its silicon quantum computing hardware and Q-CTRL has integrated its quantum infrastructure software solutions into Diraq’s silicon quantum processors.
- Two projects are funded by the NSW Office of the Chief Scientist and Engineer’s Quantum Computing Commercialisation Fund.
- One project funded from the United States Army Research Office.
Q-Ctrl:
- partnered with the Department of Defence to develop quantum sensors for quantum-enhanced positioning and navigation capabilities for military platforms
- received a CRC-P grant through Round 15 in partnership with the Australian National University and Transparent Earth Geophysics (formerly CMG Operations) to build novel technology for airborne gravity surveys.
Q-Ctrl and Silanna Semiconductor:
- are involved in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology to develop quantum technologies to observe biological processes.
Quantum Brilliance:
- received an ARC Linkage grant in partnership with La Trobe University and RMIT University to develop a scalable manufacturing process for diamond quantum technology.
QuintessenceLabs:
- received an ARC Linkage grant in partnership with the University of Newcastle and the University of Sydney to develop quantum key distribution.
Silicon Quantum Computing:
- received an ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship program grant with Dr Sam Gorman in collaboration with UNSW for developing small footprint scalable sensors for the state preparation and measurement of semiconductor spin qubits
- partnered with Silex to establish a $16 million production plant for purity enriched silicon to provide Australia with a sovereign supply of quantum silicon
- contracted by Transport for NSW to design bespoke quantum hardware solutions that could be used to solve optimisation problems on Sydney’s complex public transport network
- used its quantum machine learning processor to trial new scam and fraud detection approaches with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia
- used its quantum machine learning processor to help Telstra trial new approaches to detect anomalies in network performance.
QuantX Labs:
- awarded a Moon to Mars Initiative: Demonstrator Mission grant by the Australian Space Agency leading a consortium on industry and academic teams in the KAIROS mission, which seeks to build a next-generation atomic clock and place it in orbit
- received an ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship grant for Dr Sarah Scholten for developing a high-performance atomic clock suited for operation on a satellite in collaboration with the University of Adelaide.
7 Quantum Meets events were hosted by Australia’s Chief Scientist, CSIRO and DISR.
Events were hosted with the sports, resources, space, energy, finance and public service sectors.
Attendance included (people and organisations present at multiple events are only counted once):
- 45 people from 24 quantum businesses
- 95 people from 24 universities and ARC Centres of Excellence
- people from 109 businesses and non-government organisations outside of the quantum sector.
