A Framework for Embedding, Simulation, and Design of Computational nanotechnology using a Quantum Annealing Processor

这项提议直接回应了加拿大的几个关键战略领域，因为它的目标是为下一代计算机开发截然不同的设备和技术，并通过提供技术和工具来探索基于硅量子点细胞自动机(QCA)的原子级电路技术，从而满足指数级增长的信息存储和处理需求。QCA是一种计算纳米技术，目前正由我们在加拿大的第一个合作伙伴量子硅公司(QSI)开发和商业化。通过使用我们的第二个合作伙伴D-Wave Systems Inc.开发的处理器技术，我们的研究将受益于量子计算和量子退火(QA)领域真正独特的发展。我们的开发将使D-Wave处理器作为未来几代计算技术的模拟和设计平台得到强大的应用。QCA电路是在D-Wave的处理器上进行模拟的理想匹配，因为计算模型是有限状态节点的耦合网络，使我们能够最大限度地发挥这台新型计算机的能力。我们建议使用D-Wave开发的QA处理器来进行QCA的嵌入、模拟和设计技术的研究，以生成一个新的QCA计算机辅助设计平台，使QSI能够更好地理解他们打算开发的复杂和大型电路。提出的项目不可能使用传统的计算，因为问题的复杂性随规模呈指数级增长。利用这一平台，我们将进行实验，对QCA性能和性能扩展进行前所未有的评估，并为这项技术的未来设计者开发设计规则，所有这些都具有重大突破的潜力。通过将这两家独特的公司连接起来，我们也处于独特的地位，可以加快这些合作伙伴可能产生的潜在重大经济影响，并加强加拿大作为这些潜在革命性技术的领导者的地位。

This proposal responds directly to several of the key strategic areas for Canada as it targets the development ofradically different devices and technology for next generation computers and addresses the exponentiallyincreasing requirements for information storage and processing by providing techniques and tools for exploringatomic scale circuit technology based on silicon quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), a computationalnanotechnology that is presently being developed and commercialized by our first Canadian partner, QuantumSilicon Inc. (QSi). Our research will benefit from the truly unique developments in quantum computing andquantum annealing (QA) through the use of processor technology developed by our second partner, D-WaveSystems Inc. Our developments will enable a powerful application of the D-Wave's processor as a simulationand design platform for future generations of computing technology. QCA circuits are ideally matched forsimulations on D-Wave's processor, as the computational model is that of a coupled network of finite statenodes, enabling us to maximize the capacity of this novel computer for this purpose.We are proposing to conduct research on techniques for embedding, simulation, and design of QCA using theQA processor developed by D-Wave in order to generate a novel platform for computer-aided design withQCA and enabling QSi to better understand the complex and large circuits they intend to develop. Theproposed project is not possible using conventional computing as the complexity of the problem scalesexponentially with size. Using this platform we will conduct experiments that will result in a never beforepossible assessment of QCA performance and performance scaling as well as the development of design rulesfor future designers of this technology, all of which hold potential for major breakthroughs. By bridging thesetwo unique companies we are also uniquely positioned to accelerate the potentially significant economicimpact these partners can make and strengthen Canada's position as a leader in these potentially revolutionarytechnologies.