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Reliable quantum circuits have defects

Alexandru Paler, Austin G. Fowler, Robert Wille

State of the art quantum computing architectures are founded on the decision to use scalable but faulty quantum hardware in conjunction with an efficient error correcting code capable of tolerating high error rates. The promised effect of this decision is that the first large-scale practical quantum computer is within reach. Coming to grips with the strategy and the challenges of preparing reliable executions of an arbitrary quantum computation is not difficult. Moreover, the article explains why defects are good.State of the art quantum computing architectures are founded on the decision to use scalable but faulty quantum hardware in conjunction with an efficient error correcting code capable of tolerating high error rates. The promised effect of this decision is that the first large-scale practical quantum computer is within reach. Coming to grips with the strategy and the challenges of preparing reliable executions of an arbitrary quantum computation is not difficult. Moreover, the article explains why defects are good.

arXiv:1902.03698Feb 11, 20190 citations

Practical quantum computers still at least a decade away

Peter H. Gwynne

Significant technical and financial issues remain towards building a large, fault-tolerant quantum computer and one is unlikely to be built within the coming decade.

Physics WorldJan 1, 20192 citations

Quantum computing in practice: fault-tolerant protocols and circuit-mapping techniques

Lingling Lao

Quantum computing promises to solve some problems that are intractable by classical computers. Several quantum processors based on different technologies and consisting of a few tens of noisy qubits have already been developed. However, qubits are fragile as they tend to decohere extremely quickly and quantum operations are faulty, making reliable computation very difficult. Moreover, quantum processors have hardware constraints such as limited qubit connectivity and shared classical control, making quantum algorithms not directly executable. This thesis focuses on some of the challenges of the implementation of quantum algorithms on near-termintermediate-scale and future large-scale quantum processors. More precisely, it investigates how to perform reliable quantum computation using fault-tolerant protocols and how to execute quantum algorithms on hardware-constrained processors using circuit-mapping techniques.Quantum computing promises to solve some problems that are intractable by classical computers. Several quantum processors based on different technologies and consisting of a few tens of noisy qubits have already been developed. However, qubits are fragile as they tend to decohere extremely quickly and quantum operations are faulty, making reliable computation very difficult. Moreover, quantum processors have hardware constraints such as limited qubit connectivity and shared classical control, making quantum algorithms not directly executable. This thesis focuses on some of the challenges of the implementation of quantum algorithms on near-termintermediate-scale and future large-scale quantum processors. More precisely, it investigates how to perform reliable quantum computation using fault-tolerant protocols and how to execute quantum algorithms on hardware-constrained processors using circuit-mapping techniques.

Nov 25, 20190 citations

Building a practical quantum computer

Don Monroe

Quantum computation has a long road ahead.

Communications of the ACMJun 21, 20227 citations

Robustness and Performance Scaling of Large-Scale Quantum Computers with Faulty Gates

Yunseong Nam

This thesis presents an overview of my published work on streamlining and optimizing quantum processors. Complete, microscopic, quantum-gate–by–quantum-gate simulations of a variety of quantum circuits are implemented and executed on state-of-the-art multi-processor parallel computers. A host of analytical scaling formulas addressing the quality of quantum processors, e.g., in the presence of realistic gate errors and defects, are presented. These formulas reliably describe the practically interesting, large-number-of-qubit regime, inaccessible to simulations on classical computers. Much of the technical details may be found in my published articles, which appear in the Appendix. This thesis also presents the generic and specific directions into which my current investigations are headed. In addition, several preliminary results are presented and discussed.This thesis presents an overview of my published work on streamlining and optimizing quantum processors. Complete, microscopic, quantum-gate–by–quantum-gate simulations of a variety of quantum circuits are implemented and executed on state-of-the-art multi-processor parallel computers. A host of analytical scaling formulas addressing the quality of quantum processors, e.g., in the presence of realistic gate errors and defects, are presented. These formulas reliably describe the practically interesting, large-number-of-qubit regime, inaccessible to simulations on classical computers. Much of the technical details may be found in my published articles, which appear in the Appendix. This thesis also presents the generic and specific directions into which my current investigations are headed. In addition, several preliminary results are presented and discussed.

Jan 1, 20160 citations

Designing Quantum Computers

We have reached the stage in our development of quantum technologies at which we are now able to construct the building blocks necessary to create small-scale quantum processors and networks.The challenge is how we scale up to fully fault-tolerant quantum computers involving extremely large numbers of interacting quantum bits.

NTT technical reviewMay 1, 20211 citation

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