Insights · 8 essays
Field notes from the lab and the runtime.
Long-form writing from the Wave team — engineering postmortems, applied research, and the occasional opinion piece. No marketing copy. No press releases.
Featured · Field notesMay 12, 2026 · 11 min
What we learned the year we put Wave OS into production at Goldman.
Year-one numbers from running quantum amplitude estimation in shadow against a real derivatives book — the wins, the surprises, and the thing we still cannot explain.
Lena Brun · Co-founder & CEO
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Recently published.
Apr 28, 2026
Engineering
Why we rebuilt the Wave compiler around a typed intermediate representation.
Ryo Tanaka · 7 min
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Apr 09, 2026
Physics
Heavy-hex vs. hex-lattice: what we got wrong in 2023 and how WC-890 fixed it.
Maya Okafor · 5 min
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Mar 22, 2026
Applied research
Pricing 1,200-asset Asian options with QAE — the parts no one writes about.
Kenji Yamamoto · 9 min
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Mar 03, 2026
Opinion
Quantum advantage is a verb, not a press release.
Lena Brun · 4 min
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Feb 18, 2026
Postmortem
Postmortem: the 47-minute WC-890 outage on Feb 6.
Wave SRE · 12 min
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Feb 02, 2026
Engineering
Real-time ZNE on a 4 GS/s FPGA control crate.
Frieda Schmidt · 8 min
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Jan 19, 2026
Applied research
Noise-aware ansätze for industrial chemistry workloads.
Adaeze Okonkwo · 10 min
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