Quantum Computer-Aided Design: Digital Quantum Simulation of Quantum Processors
Abstract
With the increasing size of quantum processors, submodules that constitute the processor hardware will become too large to accurately simulate on a classical computer. Therefore, one would soon have to fabricate and test each new design primitive and parameter choice in time-consuming coordination between design, fabrication, and experimental validation. Here we show how one can design and test the performance of next-generation quantum hardware—by using existing quantum computers. Focusing on superconducting transmon processors as a prominent hardware platform, we compute the static and dynamic properties of individual and coupled transmons. We show how the energy spectra of transmons can be obtained by variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms that are well suited for near-term noisy quantum computers. In addition, single- and two-qubit gate simulations are demonstrated via Suzuki-Trotter decomposition. Our methods pave a promising way towards designing candidate quantum processors when the demands of calculating submodule properties exceed the capabilities of classical computing resources.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Applied
- Pub Date:
- October 2021
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.044042
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2006.03070
- Bibcode:
- 2021PhRvP..16d4042K
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics;
- Physics - Atomic Physics
- E-Print:
- 17 pages, 8 figures. accepted version to appear in Phys. Rev. Appl