从百到百万量子比特,构建可扩展量子计算机的系统方案
How to Build a Quantum Supercomputer: Scaling from Hundreds to Millions of Qubits

- 用半导体技术提升量子比特质量,结合系统工程与异构计算实现规模化
- 基于表面码纠错的硬件下,量子化学等应用需数万逻辑比特支持
- 适合关注量子-经典融合架构与产业级量子应用落地的研究者
过去四十年间,量子计算已从理论构想发展为可能实现的技术。如今,数百个物理量子比特上已可实现小规模量子算法演示。然而,在量子硬件、制造、软件架构和算法方面仍面临重大挑战,阻碍全栈可扩展量子计算的发展。本文全面分析了这些扩展难题,提出通过采用现有半导体技术制造高质量量子比特、运用系统工程方法,并实施分布式异构量子-经典计算来推动规模化。基于超导量子比特当前、目标及理想硬件规格,我们对表面码纠错量子计算机上的量子应用进行了详尽的资源与敏感性分析,考虑了实际错误分布。针对量子化学计算、催化剂设计、核磁共振波谱和费米-哈伯德模型模拟等实用级应用,给出了全面的资源估算。结果表明,硬件改进与紧密的量子-高性能计算集成可带来数量级性能提升。此外,我们还提出了面向量子概率计算的高性能架构,采用定制加速器,以成本效益方式应对当前工业级的经典优化、机器学习与量子模拟任务。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In the span of four decades, quantum computation has evolved from an intellectual curiosity to a potentially realizable technology. Today, small-scale demonstrations have become possible for quantum algorithmic primitives on hundreds of physical qubits. Nevertheless, there are significant outstanding challenges in quantum hardware, fabrication, software architecture, and algorithms on the path towards a full-stack scalable quantum computing technology. Here, we provide a comprehensive review of these scaling challenges. We show how to facilitate scaling by adopting existing semiconductor technology to build much higher-quality qubits, employing systems engineering approaches, and performing distributed heterogeneous quantum-classical computing. We provide a detailed resource and sensitivity analysis for quantum applications on surface-code error-corrected quantum computers given current, target, and desired hardware specifications based on superconducting qubits, accounting for a realistic distribution of errors. We provide comprehensive resource estimates for several utility-scale applications including quantum chemistry calculations, catalyst design, NMR spectroscopy, and Fermi-Hubbard simulation. We show that orders of magnitude enhancement in performance could be obtained by a combination of hardware improvements and tight quantum-HPC integration. Furthermore, we introduce high-performance architectures for quantum-probabilistic computing with custom-designed accelerators to tackle today's industry-scale classical optimization, machine learning, and quantum simulation tasks in a cost-effective manner.
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