High-Throughput Quantum Simulation on a Data Center FPGA
Leveraging High-Bandwidth Memory for Simulating Arbitrary Quantum Operations
M.C. Kirchhofs (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
J.S.S.M. Wong – Mentor (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
G. Gaydadjiev – Mentor (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
S. Feld – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - QCD/Feld Group)
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Abstract
This thesis leverages an HBM-based FPGA accelerator to achieve a significant speedup on quantum state vector simulation. A novel state vector representation is derived, which maintains the efficiency of sparse matrices, eliminates large gate matrices, and guarantees sequential memory accesses. The novel scheme is implemented and benchmarked in a functional prototype. Lastly, the thesis discusses scaling up the prototype in detail, and elaborates on future functionality additions.