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Hauptverfasser: Góis, Francisca, Pezzutto, Marco, Omar, Yasser
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11572
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author Góis, Francisca
Pezzutto, Marco
Omar, Yasser
author_facet Góis, Francisca
Pezzutto, Marco
Omar, Yasser
contents The question of the energetic efficiency of quantum computers has gained increasing attention recently. A precise understanding of the resources required to operate a quantum computer with a targeted computational performance and how the energy requirements can impact the scalability is still missing. In this work, one implementation of the quantum Fourier transform algorithm in a trapped-ion setup was studied. The main focus was to obtain a theoretical characterization of the energetic costs of quantum computation, based on actual experimental measurements performed on a similar trapped-ion setup.The energetic cost of the computation was estimated by analyzing the components of the setup and all the steps involved, from the cooling and preparation of the ions to the execution of the algorithm and readout of the result. In the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum regime, a potential scaling of the energetic costs was argued and used to find a possible threshold for an energetic quantum advantage against state-of-the-art classical supercomputers. Remarkably, this threshold appears to be lower than the one for which computational time advantage is expected.
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spellingShingle Energetics of Trapped-Ion Quantum Computation
Góis, Francisca
Pezzutto, Marco
Omar, Yasser
Quantum Physics
The question of the energetic efficiency of quantum computers has gained increasing attention recently. A precise understanding of the resources required to operate a quantum computer with a targeted computational performance and how the energy requirements can impact the scalability is still missing. In this work, one implementation of the quantum Fourier transform algorithm in a trapped-ion setup was studied. The main focus was to obtain a theoretical characterization of the energetic costs of quantum computation, based on actual experimental measurements performed on a similar trapped-ion setup.The energetic cost of the computation was estimated by analyzing the components of the setup and all the steps involved, from the cooling and preparation of the ions to the execution of the algorithm and readout of the result. In the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum regime, a potential scaling of the energetic costs was argued and used to find a possible threshold for an energetic quantum advantage against state-of-the-art classical supercomputers. Remarkably, this threshold appears to be lower than the one for which computational time advantage is expected.
title Energetics of Trapped-Ion Quantum Computation
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11572