Quantum processor unit architecture for quantum computing via an arbitrarily programmable interaction connectivity graph

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12340273-B2
Application number	US-202117519320-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 4, 2021
Priority date	Nov 4, 2020
Publication date	Jun 24, 2025
Grant date	Jun 24, 2025

Abstract

A superconducting quantum processor unit for quantum computing is provided. The processor unit is formed from the union of a qubit chip and a wiring chip with superconducting bonding bumps and spacers. The bumps may be densely distributed around active elements between the two chips and effectively form a Faraday-Cage around the qubits, control signal waveguides etc. The qubit chip has strategically spaced qubits and an inductively coupled probe line and the wiring chip has a bus coupling resonator with a number of voltage nodes and anti-nodes, a resonator pump and at least one SQUID. Magnetic flux applied through the SQUIDs changes their impedances and modifies the microwave boundary conditions of the bus. This allows in-situ shifting of electric field distributions of the resonance modes of the bus along the length of the bus. This tunes the coupling rates of the bus to all qubits simultaneously.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A superconducting quantum processor unit apparatus for quantum computing, the apparatus comprising:
(a) a qubit chip, comprising:
(i) a planar substrate with a plurality of qubit chip surface bonding elements;
(ii) a plurality of qubits; and
(iii) a probe line inductively coupled to the qubits;

(b) a wiring chip, comprising:
(i) a planar substrate with a plurality of wiring chip surface bonding elements;
(ii) a bus coupling resonator with a plurality of voltage nodes and anti-nodes;
(iii) at least one Superconducting-Quantum-Interference-Device (SQUID) joined to the bus coupling resonator; and
(iv) a resonator pump connected to said bus coupling resonator through pump capacitors at said voltage anti-nodes;

(c) wherein said qubit chip is mounted to said wiring chip with the surface bonding elements of each chip to produce a superconducting quantum processor unit.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein each of said qubits comprise:
a transmon; and
a meandering readout resonator with a readout capacitor engaged with the transmon at one end and coupled to the probe line at the other with an inductive coupling;
wherein said readout resonator is configured to produce a set resonator frequency.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 , wherein each transmon comprises:
a qubit pad with a qubit ground capacitor;
a bus coupling capacitor;
a qubit XY control; and
a qubit Z control.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , said probe line further comprising:
a Purcell filter; and
a parallel capacitor.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said resonator pump further comprises waveguides positioned between each pump coupling capacitor creating a phase delay.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said bonding elements of said qubit chip and said wiring chip comprise superconducting indium metal pillars distributed around the planar substrate for crosstalk suppression.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein said bonding elements of said qubit chip and said wiring chip further comprise a plurality of low-loss superconducting/dielectric hard spacers.

8. A superconducting quantum processor unit apparatus for quantum computing, the apparatus comprising:
(a) a wiring chip, comprising:
(i) a planar substrate with a plurality of wiring chip surface bonding elements;
(ii) a bus coupling resonator with a first row of a plurality of voltage nodes and anti-nodes coupled to a second row of a plurality of voltage nodes and anti-nodes parallel to the first row and separated by a gap;
(iii) a resonator pump disposed in said gap between said rows of voltage nodes, said resonator pump connected to each row of said bus coupling resonator through pump capacitors at said voltage anti-nodes of said first and second rows of nodes of the bus coupling resonator; and
(iv) a first Superconducting-Quantum-Interference-Device (SQUID) joined to the first row of voltage nodes and anti-nodes of the bus coupling resonator; and
(v) a second Superconducting-Quantum-Interference-Device (SQUID) joined to the second row of voltage nodes and anti-nodes of the bus coupling resonator;

(b) a qubit chip, comprising:
(i) a planar substrate with a plurality of qubit chip surface bonding elements with a distribution corresponding to said bonding elements of said wiring chip;
(ii) a first row of a plurality of qubits inductively coupled to a first probe line; and
(iii) a second row of a plurality of qubits inductively coupled to a second probe line;

(c) wherein said qubit chip is mounted to said wiring chip with the surface bonding elements to produce a superconducting quantum processor unit.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , said first probe line and said second probe line further comprising:
a Purcell filter; and
a parallel capacitor.

10. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein each of said qubits comprises:
a transmon; and
a meandering readout resonator with a readout capacitor engaged with the transmon at one end and coupled to the first or second probe line at the other with an inductive coupling;
wherein said readout resonator is configured to produce a set resonator frequency.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein said set resonator frequency of said qubits in said first and second rows of qubits incrementally increases from one end of a row to the other.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein each transmon comprises:
a qubit pad with a qubit ground capacitor;
a bus coupling capacitor;
a qubit XY control; and
a qubit Z control.

13. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein said resonator pump further comprises waveguides positioned between pump capacitors creating a phase delay; and
wherein voltage phases of resonant anti-nodes are aligned with a travelling wave injected into the bus drive line resonator pump.

14. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein said bonding elements of said qubit chip and said wiring chip comprise superconducting indium metal pillars distributed around the planar substrate for crosstalk suppression.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein said bonding elements of said qubit chip and said wiring chip further comprise a plurality of low-loss superconducting/dielectric hard spacers.

16. A superconducting quantum processor unit apparatus for quantum computing, the apparatus comprising:
(a) a wiring chip, comprising:
(i) a planar substrate with a plurality of wiring chip surface bonding elements;
(ii) a bus coupling resonator with a first row of four voltage nodes and anti-nodes coupled to a second row of four voltage nodes and anti-nodes parallel to the first row and separated by a gap, said anti-nodes facing the gap;
(iii) a resonator pump disposed in said gap between said rows of voltage anti-nodes of said bus coupling resonator, said resonator pump having a drive line and pairs of opposing pump coupling capacitors coupled to anti-nodes of the bus coupling resonator and a waveguide positioned between each pair of pump coupling capacitors;
(iv) a first Superconducting-Quantum-Interference-Device (SQUID) joined to an end of the first row of voltage nodes and anti-nodes of the bus coupling resonator; and
(v) a second Superconducting-Quantum-Interference-Device (SQUID) joined to an end of the second row of voltage nodes and anti-nodes of the bus coupling resonator;

(b) a qubit chip, comprising:
(i) a planar substrate with a plurality of qubit chip surface bonding elements with a distribution corresponding to said bonding elements of said wiring chip;
(ii) a first row of a plurality of qubits inductively coupled to a first probe line; and
(iii) a second row of a plurality of qubits inductively coupled to a second probe line;

(c) wherein said qubit chip is mounted to said wiring chip with the wiring chip and qubit surface bonding elements to produce a superconducting quantum processor unit.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , said first probe line and said second probe line further comprising:
a Purcell filter; and
a parallel capacitor.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein each of said qubits comprises:
a transmon; and
a meandering readout resonator with a readout capacitor engaged with the transmon at one end and coupled to the first or second probe line at the other with an inductive coupling;
wherein said readout resonator is configured to produce a set resonator frequency.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein each transmon comprises:
a qubit pad with a qubit ground capacitor;
a bus coupling capacitor;
a qubit XY control; and
a qubit Z control.

20. The apparat

Assignees

• Univ California

Inventors

• Siddiqi Irfan
• Luo Jie
• Marinelli Brian

Classifications

• G01R33/0358

  coupling the flux to the SQUID (gradiometer coils G01R33/022; coils with superconductive winding H01F6/06) · CPC title

• G06N10/40 Primary

  Physical realisations or architectures of quantum processors or components for manipulating qubits, e.g. qubit coupling or qubit control · CPC title

• G01R33/0354

  SQUIDS · CPC title

• G06N10/20 Primary

  Models of quantum computing, e.g. quantum circuits or universal quantum computers · CPC title