A practical architecture for reliable quantum computers

@article{citeulike:691460, abstract = {Quantum computation has advanced to the point where system-level solutions can help close the gap between emerging quantum technologies and real-world computing requirements. Empirical studies of practical quantum architectures are just beginning to appear in the literature. Elementary architectural concepts are still lacking: How do we provide quantum storage, data paths, classical control circuits, parallelism, and system integration? And, crucially, how can we design architectures to reduce error-correction overhead? The authors describe a proposed architecture that uses code teleportation, quantum memory refresh units, dynamic compilation of quantum programs, and scalable error correction to achieve system-level efficiencies. They assert that their work indicates the underlying technology's reliability is crucial; practical architectures will require quantum technologies with error rates between 10^-6 and 10^-9}, author = {Oskin, M. and Chong, F. T. and Chuang, I. L.}, citeulike-article-id = {691460}, journal = {Computer}, keywords = {quantum}, number = {1}, pages = {79--87}, posted-at = {2007-03-19 15:47:26}, priority = {3}, title = {A practical architecture for reliable quantum computers}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=976922}, volume = {35}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:691460 L3 - citeulike-article-id:691460 N2 - Quantum computation has advanced to the point where system-level solutions can help close the gap between emerging quantum technologies and real-world computing requirements. Empirical studies of practical quantum architectures are just beginning to appear in the literature. Elementary architectural concepts are still lacking: How do we provide quantum storage, data paths, classical control circuits, parallelism, and system integration? And, crucially, how can we design architectures to reduce error-correction overhead? The authors describe a proposed architecture that uses code teleportation, quantum memory refresh units, dynamic compilation of quantum programs, and scalable error correction to achieve system-level efficiencies. They assert that their work indicates the underlying technology's reliability is crucial; practical architectures will require quantum technologies with error rates between 10^-6 and 10^-9 IS - 1 JF - Computer EP - 87 TI - A practical architecture for reliable quantum computers VL - 35 SP - 79 KW - quantum AU - Oskin, M AU - Chong, FT AU - Chuang, IL PY - 2002/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=976922 ER -