{"id":33995,"date":"2017-02-01T12:05:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T20:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/blueprint-for-a-microwave-trapped-ion-quantum-computer"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:23:40","slug":"blueprint-for-a-microwave-trapped-ion-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/blueprint-for-a-microwave-trapped-ion-quantum-computer","title":{"rendered":"Blueprint for a microwave trapped ion quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blueprint-for-a-microwave-trapped-ion-quantum-computer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More detailed write up on QC Blueprint introduced this week. It does seem to try to address scalability; however, the real test is when we test a smart device and a small server with the blueprint.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The availability of a universal quantum computer may have a fundamental impact on a vast number of research fields and on society as a whole. An increasingly large scientific and industrial community is working toward the realization of such a device. An arbitrarily large quantum computer may best be constructed using a modular approach. We present a blueprint for a trapped ion\u2013based scalable quantum computer module, making it possible to create a scalable quantum computer architecture based on long-wavelength radiation quantum gates. The modules control all operations as stand-alone units, are constructed using silicon microfabrication techniques, and are within reach of current technology. To perform the required quantum computations, the modules make use of long-wavelength radiation\u2013based quantum gate technology. To scale this microwave quantum computer architecture to a large size, we present a fully scalable design that makes use of ion transport between different modules, thereby allowing arbitrarily many modules to be connected to construct a large-scale device. A high error\u2013threshold surface error correction code can be implemented in the proposed architecture to execute fault-tolerant operations. With appropriate adjustments, the proposed modules are also suitable for alternative trapped ion quantum computer architectures, such as schemes using photonic interconnects.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/3\/2\/e1601540.full\">http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/3\/2\/e1601540.full<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More detailed write up on QC Blueprint introduced this week. It does seem to try to address scalability; however, the real test is when we test a smart device and a small server with the blueprint. The availability of a universal quantum computer may have a fundamental impact on a vast number of research fields [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56593,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33995\/revisions\/56593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}