Computer power drives scientific and economic progress. To keep advancing, we will need near-term quantum computers.
Requires
- Reliable, scalable and flexible hardware
- Agile software stack for optimizing performance
- Applications that promise a quantum advantage on small devices
Enables
- Users to interact with quantum hardware
- Engineers to contribute to design and construction of larger quantum systems
- Computer scientist to test heuristic quantum algorithms
Catalyzes
- Large scale quantum information devices compatible with error correction
- Workforce development in quantum information technologies
- Public resources for quantum information science, e.g. a quantum computer user facility
Synergies
Cross-Cutting Themes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connectivity | Modalities | Errors and Validation | ||
Vertical Stack | Applications | Graph complexity of the problem | Analog vs. digital quantum simulations | Error resistant circuits for specific algorithms |
| Software Stack | Identify clusters and measure bandwidth | Compilation tools for analog simulation | Compare answers for optimal compilations | |
| Hardware | Implement modules | Exposed knobs | Benchmarking | |