MIT News May 29, 2024
Colour centres in diamond have emerged as a leading solid-state platform for advancing quantum technologies and recently achieved quantum advantage in secret key distribution. Blueprint studies indicate that general-purpose quantum computing using local quantum communication networks will require millions of physical qubits to encode thousands of logical qubits, presenting an open scalability challenge. An international team of researchers (MIT, DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory, The MITRE Corporation, Cornell University, the Netherlands, Germany) introduced a modular quantum system-on-chip (QSoC) architecture that integrated thousands of individually addressable tin-vacancy spin qubits in two-dimensional arrays of quantum microchiplets into an application-specific integrated circuit designed for cryogenic control. They demonstrated crucial fabrication steps and architectural subcomponents, including QSoC transfer by means of a ‘lock-and-release’ method for large-scale heterogeneous integration, high-throughput spin-qubit calibration and spectral tuning, and efficient spin state preparation and measurement. This QSoC architecture supported full connectivity for quantum memory arrays by spectral tuning across spin–photon frequency channels. Design studies building on these measurements indicated further scaling potential by means of increased qubit density, larger QSoC active regions and optical networking across QSoC modules… read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Comprehensive architectural design. Credit: Nature, 29 May 2024