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Title: ARQUIN: Architectures for Multinode Superconducting Quantum Computers

Journal Article · · ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3674151 · OSTI ID:2475544
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  1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  2. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  3. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  5. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  6. Yale University, New Haven, CT (United States)
  7. California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY (United States)
  8. University of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
  9. University of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  10. Princeton University, NJ (United States)
  11. IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY (United States)
  12. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  13. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  14. Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
  15. NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA (United States)
  16. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
  17. University of Toronto, ON (Canada); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  18. Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States); Kent State University, Kent, OH (United States)

Many proposals to scale quantum technology rely on modular or distributed designs wherein individual quantum processors, called nodes, are linked together to form one large multinode quantum computer (MNQC). One scalable method to construct an MNQC is using superconducting quantum systems with optical interconnects. However, internode gates in these systems may be two to three orders of magnitude noisier and slower than local operations. Surmounting the limitations of internode gates will require improvements in entanglement generation, use of entanglement distillation, and optimized software and compilers. Still, it remains unclear what performance is possible with current hardware and what performance algorithms require. In this article, we employ a systems analysis approach to quantify overall MNQC performance in terms of hardware models of internode links, entanglement distillation, and local architecture. We show how to navigate tradeoffs in entanglement generation and distillation in the context of algorithm performance, lay out how compilers and software should balance between local and internode gates, and discuss when noisy quantum internode links have an advantage over purely classical links. Here, we find that a factor of 10–100× better link performance is required and introduce a research roadmap for the co-design of hardware and software towards the realization of early MNQCs. While we focus on superconducting devices with optical interconnects, our approach is general across MNQC implementations.

Research Organization:
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Berkeley, CA (United States); Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830; SC0012704
OSTI ID:
2475544
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA--189729
Journal Information:
ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing, Journal Name: ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 5; ISSN 2643-6809
Publisher:
Association for Computing MachineryCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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