diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 63b4a4569399..e392767ad8e6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -502,9 +502,9 @@ checksum = "60a357793950651c4ed0f3f52338f53b2f809f32d83a07f72909fa13e4c6c1e3"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rayon"
-version = "1.6.1"
+version = "1.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6db3a213adf02b3bcfd2d3846bb41cb22857d131789e01df434fb7e7bc0759b7"
+checksum = "1d2df5196e37bcc87abebc0053e20787d73847bb33134a69841207dd0a47f03b"
 dependencies = [
  "either",
  "rayon-core",
@@ -512,9 +512,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rayon-core"
-version = "1.10.1"
+version = "1.11.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cac410af5d00ab6884528b4ab69d1e8e146e8d471201800fa1b4524126de6ad3"
+checksum = "4b8f95bd6966f5c87776639160a66bd8ab9895d9d4ab01ddba9fc60661aebe8d"
 dependencies = [
  "crossbeam-channel",
  "crossbeam-deque",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7d9781ac15e2..1db82bf185fe 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ name = "qiskit_accelerate"
 crate-type = ["cdylib"]
 
 [dependencies]
-rayon = "1.6"
+rayon = "1.7"
 numpy = "0.18.0"
 rand = "0.8"
 rand_pcg = "0.3"