A Microarchitecture for a Superconducting Quantum Processor

Journal Article (2018)
Author(s)

X. Fu (TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, TU Delft - Computer Engineering)

M.A. Rol (Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QCD/DiCarlo Lab, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

C.C. Bultink (Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QCD/DiCarlo Lab, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

J. van Someren (TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, TU Delft - Computer Engineering, TU Delft - FTQC/Bertels Lab)

N. Khammassi (TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, TU Delft - FTQC/Bertels Lab)

I. Ashraf (TU Delft - FTQC/Bertels Lab, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

R.F.L. Vermeulen (TU Delft - ALG/General, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft)

J.C. De Sterke (Topic Embedded Systems B.V., TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

W.J. Vlothuizen (TU Delft - BUS/General, TNO, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

R.N. Schouten (TU Delft - ALG/General, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

C.G. Almudéver (TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre, TU Delft - Computer Engineering)

L. DiCarlo (TU Delft - QCD/DiCarlo Lab, Kavli institute of nanoscience Delft, TU Delft - QN/DiCarlo Lab, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

K. Bertels (TU Delft - FTQC/Bertels Lab, TU Delft - Quantum & Computer Engineering, TU Delft - QuTech Advanced Research Centre)

Research Group
Computer Engineering
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2018.032271060
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Publication Year
2018
Language
English
Research Group
Computer Engineering
Issue number
3
Volume number
38
Pages (from-to)
40-47
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Abstract

This article proposes a quantum microarchitecture, QuMA. Flexible programmability of a quantum processor is achieved by multilevel instructions decoding, abstracting analog control into digital control, and translating instruction execution with non-deterministic timing into event trigger with precise timing. QuMA is validated by several single-qubit experiments on a superconducting qubit.

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