Controlling Qubits: the Qblox Quantum-Processor Control Stack

Monday, March 30, 2020, 7:05pm (Eastern USA)

"Meetup-Lite" event: online-only https://zoom.us/j/396887073

Cost: Free

Title: Controlling Qubits: the Qblox Quantum-Processor Control Stack

A quantum computer requires a control system to interface between the classical world and the quantum bits. In this talk, we discuss this control system and take you through the different layers of the stack. We start at the level of the quantum processor to understand the different types of signals that are required for logic gates and measurements. In a live demo we show how a high-level quantum language is translated into these analog signals and show them on an oscilloscope. The Qblox approach is scalable to hundreds of qubits and is compatible with many different experimental platforms.

Presenters: Niels Bultink (CEO) and Jules van Oven (CTO)

Background: Qblox is a company that focuses on the control electronics required for quantum computing. The company is based in the Netherlands and is a spin-off of QuTech, one of the largest quantum technology institutes worldwide. The research interests of Qblox include quantum information processing and implementations of fault-tolerant quantum computing. Their work focuses particularly on controlling multi-qubit processors to build quantum computers with an ever-increasing number of qubits. Contact them at hello@qblox.com.

Event artifacts (when available):
http://quantum.harrisburg.tech/meetups/20200330/

Sponsor: Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
https://harrisburgU.edu/quantum email: quantum@HarrisburgU.edu