Systems and methods for increasing energy-scale by minimizing qubit inductance
AssigneeD-Wave Systems Inc.
InventorEmile M. Hoskinson
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AssigneeD-Wave Systems Inc.
InventorEmile M. Hoskinson
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In a superconducting quantum processor, inductance is a characteristic of superconducting flux qubits and used to achieve coupling between qubits. In general, higher qubit energy scale results in better quantum processor performance. Energy scale of qubits can be increased by reducing inductance. For each Ising spin problem, qubit energy scale can be increased by determining the unused inductance-tuner range for each qubit and the minimum homogenized inductance achievable across all qubits, then adjusting the inductance-tuner to achieve the minimum homogenized inductance. When the inductance of a qubit is changed, there is a shift in the CCJJ bias at which quantum annealing is performed for that qubit. The variation in CCJJ bias shift can be compensated by computing the shift in CCJJ bias due to the applied inductance and applying a compensating CCJJ bias via the CCJJ offset DAC.
A method for increasing available qubit energy scale in a hybrid computing system, the hybrid computing system comprising a quantum processor and at least one digital processor, the quantum processor comprising a plurality of qubits and couplers, each qubit having a respective qubit body comprising a loop of superconducting material interrupted by at least one compound-compound Josephson junction (CCJJ), the qubit body communicatively coupled to an inductance tuner (L-tuner), the method executed by the at least one digital processor and comprising:
A hybrid computing system comprising:
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