Monolithic Quantum Processors in Production FDSOI and FinFET CMOS Technologies

生产中的单片量子处理器 FDSOI 和 FinFET CMOS 技术

• 批准号: RTI-2023-00256
• 负责人: Voinigescu, Sorin
• 金额: $ 10.93万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=751668
• 关键词: Monolithic; Quantum; Processors; Production; FDSOI

This equipment application aims to obtain a high sensitivity (fA) and high precision (10uV) semiconductor parameter analyzer suitable for testing novel and patented monolithically integrated quantum processors (QPs) consisting of SiGe hole-spin qubit arrays with up to 1024 qubits and associated millimetre-wave spin-manipulation and readout electronics. The research is funded by NSERC and supported by Ciena Canada and GlobalFoundries with in-kind fabrication runs in 3nm FinFET and 22nm FDSOI technologies valued at over $300,000 per year. It addresses the continued scaling of computational power by exploring novel atomic-scale quantum-computing (QC) hardware in CMOS foundry processes, which can be integrated on the same die with classical CMOS logic and millimetre-wave analog electronics. This equipment will be used daily by all graduate students in the applicant's research group. There is no equivalent instrument in the ECE Department at U of T. The IT industry is at a critical moment. The building block of classical computers, the CMOS transistor, has reached its fundamental limits. QPs are now the front runner to take the baton from classical digital processors and are drawing large research investments from tech companies (Google, Honeywell, Intel, IBM, Microsoft). In the next 5-10 years, QPs promise to transform computational medicine through exponential or polynomial speedups. For instance, with QPs we could elucidate the reaction pathways of nitrogenase in less than four days; a classical computer simulation would take billions of years. However, today's QPs have too few gate operations to solve practical problems, and yet are too large to be deployed in workplaces. Our elevated-temperature (>4 Kelvin) QPs will revolutionize computing. The 100x increase in operating temperature over current QPs will enable greatly increased processor complexity and compute power while reducing operating and power costs. Within 10 years, such a quantum computer will be about the size of a desktop computer, small enough to be deployed in workplaces, hospitals, doctors' offices, and homes. QC is also anticipated to fundamentally change the way information is transmitted and processed in the next decade, an area of strategic importance for telecom equipment companies like Ciena Canada. The telecommunications sector could make use of QPs for many applications in the future, including quantum cryptography, network optimization, quantum networking in terrestrial fibre networks, and AI applications. NRC projects that 229,000 Canadians will be employed in quantum R&D by 2040. Thus, our world-class technology and research and the requested equipment will enable global leadership in QC and its application in telecom and medicine by allowing us to be among the first to demonstrate low-cost, elevated temperature, monolithic QPs, creating new products and business opportunities, training HQP, and helping to solve so-far intractable problems to the benefit of Canadians.

该设备的应用旨在获得一种高灵敏度(FA)和高精度(10UV)的半导体参数分析仪，适用于测试由高达1024个量子比特的SiGe空穴自旋量子比特阵列以及相关的毫米波自旋操纵和读出电子设备组成的新型专利单片集成量子处理器(QPS)。这项研究由NSERC资助，由Ciena Canada和GlobalFoundries支持，采用3 nm FinFET和22 nm FDSOI技术进行实物制造，每年价值超过300,000美元。它通过探索新型的原子规模量子计算(QC)硬件来解决计算能力的持续扩展问题，这些硬件可以与经典的CMOS逻辑和毫米波模拟电子技术集成在同一芯片上。申请者所在研究组的所有研究生每天都将使用该设备。在密歇根大学的欧洲经委会系中没有类似的工具。IT行业正处于关键时刻。传统计算机的组成部分--cmos晶体管--已经达到了它的基本极限。QP现在是从经典数字处理器手中接过接力棒的领跑者，并吸引了科技公司(谷歌、霍尼韦尔、英特尔、IBM和微软)的大量研究投资。在接下来的5-10年里，QPS有望通过指数或多项式加速来改变计算医学。例如，有了QPS，我们可以在不到四天的时间内阐明固氮酶的反应途径；而经典的计算机模拟需要数十亿年的时间。然而，今天的QP只有太少的门操作来解决实际问题，而且太大了，无法在工作场所部署。我们的高温(开尔文)QPS将给计算带来革命性的变化。工作温度比目前的QPS提高100倍，将大大增加处理器的复杂性和计算能力，同时降低操作和电力成本。在10年内，这样的量子计算机将达到台式计算机的大小，小到足以部署在工作场所、医院、医生办公室和家庭中。预计QC还将在未来十年从根本上改变信息传输和处理的方式，这对Ciena Canada等电信设备公司具有战略重要性。电信部门未来可以将QPS用于许多应用，包括量子密码学、网络优化、地面光纤网络中的量子联网和人工智能应用。NRC预计，到2040年，将有22.9万加拿大人受雇于量子研发。因此，我们世界级的技术和研究以及所需的设备将使我们在QC及其在电信和医疗领域的应用方面处于全球领先地位，使我们成为首批展示低成本、高温、单片QPS的公司之一，创造新产品和商业机会，培训HQP，并帮助解决迄今难以解决的问题，造福加拿大人。