Overview

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