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Quantum computers, while still being in their infancy, have become a reality since many years. Increasing resources are being devoted to their development, within academic research as well as by many industries, including some of the largest computer companies. So far, all the efforts have been concentrated towards achieving increasingly better time performances, through improving qubit fidelities, single- and multi-qubit gate fidelities, and increasing the number of qubits that can be operated and controlled simultaneously. The matter of energy performance of quantum computers, however, has been largely overlooked, or at least kept in a secondary place.
By contrast, in conventional computing, energy consumption has long been acknowledged as a primary concern, for obvious economic and ecological reasons, and more recently also for the limitations that power consumption places on the enhancement of computing performance.
The matter of energetic consumption of a quantum computer has gained some attention only recently. To date, a precise understanding of the connection between the computational performance of a quantum computer, and the resources required to operate it, is largely missing.
In this thesis work, we aim at investigating the energy requirements and consumption in the different elements of a quantum computer, taking into account the existing experimental platforms for quantum hardware.
