Comparison of cloud-based ion trap and superconducting quantum computer architectures

Microcoded Architectures for Ion-Trap Quantum Computers

In this paper we present the first ever systematic design space exploration of microcoded software fault tolerant iontrap quantum computers. This exploration reveals the critical importance of a well-tuned microcode for providing high performance and ensuring system reliability. In addition, we find that, despite recent advances in the reliability of quantum memory, the impact of errors due to ...

A Realizable Distributed Ion-Trap Quantum Computer

Recent advances in trapped ion technology have rapidly accelerated efforts to construct a near-term, scalable quantum computer. Micro-machined electrodes in silicon are expected to trap hundreds of ions, each representing quantum bits, on a single chip. We find, however, that scalable systems must be composed of multiple chips and we explore inter-chip communication technologies. Specifically, ...

Ion-Trap Quantum Computation

Quantum computation requires a very special physical environment. Numerous operations must be performed on the quantum states of the qubits (or quantum bits) before those states decohere, or lose the interlocking phase relationships that give quantum computation its power. Thought to be an unavoidable outcome of the interaction between the quantum state and the environment, decoherence threaten...

Ion trap quantum computing

Ion trap quantum computing