Highly-Parallel Atom-Detection Accelerator for Tweezer-Based Neutral Atom Quantum Computers
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| author | Winklmann, Jonas Yu, Yian Guo, Xiaorang Staudacher, Korbinian Schulz, Martin |
| author_facet | Winklmann, Jonas Yu, Yian Guo, Xiaorang Staudacher, Korbinian Schulz, Martin |
| contents | Neutral atom quantum computers (NAQCs) are among the most promising computational platforms for quantum computing. Controlling and measuring individual atoms and their states, which often requires multiple imaging and image-analysis procedures, is typically the most time-consuming task during computation and contributes significantly to overall cycle times. To resolve this challenge, we propose a highly-parallel atom-detection accelerator for tweezer-based NAQCs. Our design builds on an existing state-reconstruction method and combines an algorithm-level optimization with a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation to maximize parallelism and reduce the run time of the image-analysis process. We identify and overcome several challenges for an FPGA implementation, such as introducing a prefetching mechanism to improve scalability and customizing bus transfers to support large bandwidths. Tested on a Xilinx UltraScale+ FPGA, our design can analyze a 256x256-pixel fluorescence image in just 115mus, achieving 34.9x and 6.3x speedups over the original and optimized CPU baseline, respectively. Moreover, our accelerator can maintain consistent resource utilization across various atom array sizes, contributing to the ongoing efforts toward scalable and fully integrated FPGA-based control systems for NAQCs. |
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| spellingShingle | Highly-Parallel Atom-Detection Accelerator for Tweezer-Based Neutral Atom Quantum Computers Winklmann, Jonas Yu, Yian Guo, Xiaorang Staudacher, Korbinian Schulz, Martin Quantum Physics Hardware Architecture Neutral atom quantum computers (NAQCs) are among the most promising computational platforms for quantum computing. Controlling and measuring individual atoms and their states, which often requires multiple imaging and image-analysis procedures, is typically the most time-consuming task during computation and contributes significantly to overall cycle times. To resolve this challenge, we propose a highly-parallel atom-detection accelerator for tweezer-based NAQCs. Our design builds on an existing state-reconstruction method and combines an algorithm-level optimization with a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation to maximize parallelism and reduce the run time of the image-analysis process. We identify and overcome several challenges for an FPGA implementation, such as introducing a prefetching mechanism to improve scalability and customizing bus transfers to support large bandwidths. Tested on a Xilinx UltraScale+ FPGA, our design can analyze a 256x256-pixel fluorescence image in just 115mus, achieving 34.9x and 6.3x speedups over the original and optimized CPU baseline, respectively. Moreover, our accelerator can maintain consistent resource utilization across various atom array sizes, contributing to the ongoing efforts toward scalable and fully integrated FPGA-based control systems for NAQCs. |
| title | Highly-Parallel Atom-Detection Accelerator for Tweezer-Based Neutral Atom Quantum Computers |
| topic | Quantum Physics Hardware Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00816 |