Cryogenic Control Architecture for Large-Scale Quantum Computing

Understand

Solid-state qubits have recently advanced to the level that enables them, in-principle, to be scaled-up into fault-tolerant quantum computers.

• As these physical qubits continue to advance, meeting the challenge of realising a quantum machine will also require the engineering of new classical hardware and control architectures with complexity far beyond the systems used in today's few-qubit experiments.
• Here, we report a micro-architecture for controlling and reading out qubits during the execution of a quantum algorithm such as an error correcting code.
• We demonstrate the basic principles of this architecture in a configuration that distributes components of the control system across different temperature stages of a dilution refrigerator, as determined by the available cooling power.