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