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The Microtechnology and Nanoscience Department (WACQT) now needs to procure control hardware and software to set up an additional small quantum processor with up to 5 qubits. This will be dedicated to a laboratory system called “Quantum Applied Laboratory 9000” ( QAL-9000). In addition, WACQT needs to procure a small subset of control hardware for software development.
The Microtechnology and Nanoscience Department at the Chalmers University of Technology needs to buy the hardware from Qblox, for the following technical reasons:
• The procured system must be compatible with the already procured hardware. Qblox provides a solution (the Cluster) that allows the user to slot in additional units to scale up the number of qubits to be controlled in the quantum processor.
• The single units are fully synchronised amongst them. This is a crucial characteristic as we need to be able to send electrical pulses that are synchronised at nanosecond level. Qblox guarantees synchronisation both between units that are inserted in the same cluster and between units that are in different clusters. For this reason, WACQT cannot mix the already acquired Qblox hardware with solutions offered by other vendors as there is no guarantee that we would be able to control the quantum processor with the same level of accuracy.
• WACQT is also working on building up the software infrastructure that will allow its own quantum processor to be available on the cloud. The software infrastructure needs to be built around the procured hardware and WACQT is currently developing this infrastructure around Quantify, the software that controls the Qblox hardware.