Superconducting Circuit Quantum Machines
Abstract
This proposal requests funding to acquire microwave equipment for the control and measurement of superconducting circuits. The equipment includes microwave signal generators; multichannel arbitrary waveform generators; cryogenic coaxial cables; a frequency-multiplexed measurement unit, and a high-bandwidth, real-time spectrum analyzer. This microwave equipment will integrate seamlessly with the existing dilution refrigerator and microwave equipment in the PI’s laboratory. It will, crucially, enable both a.) the execution of experiments with multiple superconducting-circuits mounted in the refrigerator simultaneously, as well as b.) experiments with single superconducting-circuit chips comprising up to ~10 qubits or parametric oscillators. This enhancement in the scale (number of qubits) of device that can be controlled and measured will enable the study of quantum reservoir computing in a regime where the exponential size of the Hilbert space becomes very apparent, allowing the quantitative assessment of the benefits of quantum reservoir computing for various machine-learning tasks. Over the 20-year useful lifetime of this equipment, it is anticipated that it will be used for a wide variety of superconducting-circuits experiments, both for quantum circuits and for classical superconducting electronics. The upgraded capabilities provided by the proposed equipment will be useful not only to the PI, but also to the PI’s DoD-funded collaborators at Cornell.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 07, 2023
- Source ID
- FA95502210080
Entities
People
- Peter L. McMahon
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Cornell University
- United States Air Force