Conveners
M3Or4B - Focus Series D - Joint CEC and ICMC Session: Quantum Computing Overview
- Chen Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- Kin Chung Fong (Raytheon BBN Technologies)
Superconducting qubits are coherent artificial atoms assembled from electrical circuit elements and microwave optical components. Their lithographic scalability, compatibility with microwave control, and operability at nanosecond time scales all converge to make the superconducting qubit a highly attractive candidate for the constituent logical elements of a quantum information processor. In...
Future large-scale quantum processors (i.e. 100s of qubits), especially those based on superconducting circuits, will require large cooling powers (~10s of microW) at very low temperatures (<50 mK) with stringent temperature stabilities to avoid quantum decoherence and thus guarantee successful operation of such systems. One attractive option for providing this cooling is through Continuous...
Quantum information processing in the microwave domain will require large numbers of high quality, well-controlled qubits. Construction of such a system as a monolithic block presents a host of design, engineering and characterization challenges. An appealing approach is to build complexity with many smaller, independently testable modules, connected together in a network. A promising way to...
Superconducting quantum processors are controlled and measured in the analog domain and the design of the associated classical-to-quantum interface is critical in optimizing the overall performance of the quantum computer. Control of the processor is achieved using a combination of carefully shaped microwave pulses and high-precision time varying flux biases. Measurement of quantum states is...
