Compilation and scaling strategies for a silicon quantum processor with sparse two-dimensional connectivity

Autor: O. Crawford, J. R. Cruise, N. Mertig, M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: npj Quantum Information, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2056-6387
DOI: 10.1038/s41534-023-00679-8
Popis: Abstract Inspired by the challenge of scaling-up existing silicon quantum hardware, we propose a 2d spin-qubit architecture with low compilation overhead. The architecture is based on silicon nanowire split-gate transistors which form 1d chains of spin-qubits and allow the execution of two-qubit operations among neighbors. We introduce a silicon junction which can couple four nanowires into 2d arrangements via spin shuttling and Swap operations. We then propose a modular sparse 2d spin-qubit architecture with unit cells of diagonally-oriented squares with nanowires along the edges and junctions on the corners. Targeting noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) demonstrators, we show that the proposed architecture allows for compilation strategies which outperform methods for 1d chains, and exhibits favorable scaling properties which enable trading-off compilation overhead and colocation of control electronics within each square by adjusting the nanowire length. An appealing feature of the proposed architecture is its manufacturability using complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication processes.
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