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FM: Fall Meeting

FM 51: Industry II: Computing

FM 51.5: Invited Talk

Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 15:20–15:40, Aula

Scalable instrumentation for quantum computing — •Sadik Hafizovic — Zurich Instruments AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Building a quantum computer is one of the most demanding challenges scientist and engineers are currently facing. All promising realizations of physical qubits share a common challenge: the need for classical instrumentation with unprecedented requirements which scales from a single qubit to 100s of qubits. Zurich Instruments' mission is to support scientists and engineers in that challenge by providing the most advanced instrumentation to efficiently link their analog qubits with the digital domain. We are presenting a Quantum Computing Control System (QCCS) that we have developed and tested in close collaboration with our project partners Leo DiCarlo (TU Delft, QuSurf project) and Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zurich, QuSurf and OpenSuperQ projects). The QCCS integrates 3 building blocks: The HDAWG Arbitrary Waveform Generator to provide the control pulses for qubit gates. The UHFQA Quantum Analyzer to readout and discriminate the quantum states. And the PQSC, Programmable Quantum System Controller, which completes the control system by ensuring the synchronization of all channels, fast gate operation, and reliable real-time execution of algorithms. The quantum scientists can work both on waveform-level or connect to higher levels of the quantum stack like the Qiskit framework, which is natively supported by the QCCS.