NYC QC -Seeqc - Virtual Meetup 12pm October 25, 2021

Joseph Rahamin, Katie Porsch, Jerome Javelle and David Bowman - from - SeeQC - will present.

NOTE : This is a lunch-time talk.

Abstract

Operation of quantum processors requires control software to translate meaningful user input into physical actions on hardware. As quantum hardware progresses in circuit size and complexity, the requirements of control software have increased accordingly. In particular, the needs for the development of our novel SFQ-based hardware and integration with our wider software platform have not been fully met by existing products. To that end, we are currently building our own library for control of multi-qubit processors with features that are vital for development. This includes having a large degree of flexibility at the low-level in order to interface with different instruments and forms of hardware, as well as automation of multi-stage experiments and post-analysis, handling compilation of user input at higher levels of abstraction, and integration with a database.
In this talk we will show the current capabilities of this early version of the software, as well as the future features under development. After a run through of the key concepts and basic API, we will show examples of experiments using instrument-level control, for both conventional RF as well as instrumentation for SFQ control, to showcase a selection of the features that are enabled by this software. We will then show how we plan to extend this to higher levels of abstraction in control in order to allow for tractable operation of multi-qubit circuits at the pulse and gate level -within the same software library.