Entanglement across separate silicon dies in a modular superconducting qubit device

Abstract

Assembling future large-scale quantum computers out of smaller, specialized modules promises to simplify a number of formidable science and engineering challenges. One of the primary challenges in developing a modular architecture is in engineering high fidelity, low-latency quantum interconnects between modules. Here we demonstrate a modular solid state architecture with deterministic inter-module coupling between four physically separate, interchangeable superconducting qubit integrated circuits, achieving two-qubit gate fidelities as high as 99.1 ± 0.5% and 98.3 ± 0.3% for iSWAP and CZ entangling gates, respectively. The quality of the inter-module entanglement is further confirmed by a demonstration of Bell-inequality violation for disjoint pairs of entangled qubits across the four separate silicon dies. Having proven out the fundamental building blocks, this work provides the technological foundations for a modular quantum processor: technology which will accelerate near-term experimental efforts and open up new paths to the fault-tolerant era for solid state qubit architectures.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Sep 28, 2021
Source ID
10.1038/s41534-021-00484-1

Entities

People

  • Alysson Gold
  • Andrew Bestwick
  • Ani Nersisyan
  • Anna Stockklauser
  • Ben Scharmann
  • Biswajit Sur
  • Chad Rigetti
  • Cody James Winkleblack
  • Davide Venturelli
  • Eyob A. Sete
  • Feyza Oruc
  • Filip Wudarski
  • J. P. Paquette
  • Mahabubul Alam
  • Matthew J. Reagor
  • Mike Harburn
  • Nicolas Didier
  • Seyed Armin Razavi

Organizations

  • Rigetti Computing
  • United States Department of Defense

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing