Architectures for Quantum Computers
Summary
Quantum computers seem the subject of science fiction, but their tremendous comp
utational potential is closer than we may think. Despite significant practical
difficulties, small quantum devices of 5 to 7 bits have been built in the labora
tory. Silicon technologies promise even greater scalability. To use these tech
nologies effectively, and help guide quantum device research, computer architect
s need to start designing and reasoning about quantum processors now. Ho
wever, two major hurdles stand in the way. First, compactly describable rules t
hat characterize silicon-based quantum computing technologies are not known. Se
cond, there does not exist an infrastructure to design, test, and evaluate archi
tectural alternatives.
Publications
Dean Copsey, Mark Oskin, Francois Impens, Tzvetan Metodiev, Andrew Cross,
Frederic T. Chong, Isaac L. Chuang, John Kubiatowcz.
Toward a Scalable Silicon-Based Quantum Computing Architecture,
Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2004
Dean Copsey, Mark Oskin and Frederic T. Chong,
Ions, Atoms, and Bits: An Architectural Approach to Quantum Computing
book Chapter in Advances in Computers, Volume 61 2004.
Nemanja Isailovic, Mark Whitney, Yatish Patel, John Kubiatowicz, Dean Copsey,
Frederic T. Chong, Isaac L. Chuang and Mark Oskin,
Datapath and Control for Quantum Wires
Volume 1 Issue 1, March 2004.
Mark Oskin, Frederic T. Chong, Isaac Chuang and John Kubiatowicz.
Building Quantum Wires: The Long and the Short of it
In the 30th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2003
Dean Copsey, Mark Oskin, Tzvetan metodiev, Frederic T. Chong, and Isaac L. Chuang
The Effect of Communication Costs in Solid-state Quantum Architectures
In the Symposium on Parallel Architectures and Applications (SPAA) 2003.
Andrew Petersen and Mark Oskin.
A New Algebraic Foundation for Quantum Programming Languages
In the 2nd workshop on Non-Silicon Computing (NSC) held in conjunction
with the 30th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2003
Dean Copsey, Mark Oskin, Andrew Cross, Tzvetan Metodiev, Frederic T. Chong, Isaac Chuang, and John Kubiatowicz.
A Design Overview for a Simulation Infrastructure for Exploring Quantum Architectures
In the 2nd workshop on Non-Silicon Computing (NSC) held in conjunction
with the 30th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2003
Tzvetan Metodiev, Dean Copsey, Frederic T. Chong, Isaac Chuang, Mark Oskin, and John Kubiatowicz.
A Brief Comparison: Ion-Trap and Silicon-Based Implementations of Quantum Computation
In the 2nd workshop on Non-Silicon Computing (NSC) held in conjunction
with the 30th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2003
Dean Copsey, Mark Oskin, Frederic T. Chong, Isaac Chuang, and Khaled Abdel-Ghaff
ar.
Memory Hierarchies for Quantum Data
Workhop on Non-Silicon Computing, held in Conjunction with the International
Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, Feb. 2002
Mark Oskin, Frederic T. Chong, and Isaac Chuang.
A Practical Architecture for Reliable Quantum Computers
IEEE Computer, Jan. 2002