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An 8-qubit quantum-circuit processor

S. O’uchi, Minoru Fujishima, K. Hoh

Published Jun 25, 2003• 11 citations

Abstract

Quantum-circuit processor (QCP) is a parallel processor that executes quantum algorithms at a processing speed comparable to a quantum computer. The QCP emulates the quantum superposition, utilizing massive silicon devices in the fractal hardware-architecture. Its design cost is relaxed due to that recursive structure although a huge amount of devices are required for it. In this paper, 8-qubit QCP was fabricated within a programmable logic device. This is the first realization of the 8-qubit-hardware quantum computing as far as we know. A factoring algorithm is demonstrated by using it in this paper.

DOI: 10.1109/iscas.2002.1010677

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