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Quantum Computer

01 /Quantum Computers 02 /How to build a qubit 03 /Spin qubits (beginner level) 04 /Operations on spin qubits (beginner level) 05 /Electron spin qubits 06 /Capturing a single electron 07 /Quantum dot qubits 08 /Quantum control and readout 09 /Qubit errors 10 /NV center qubits 11 /Operations on NV center qubits 12 /The Transmon Qubit - A basis for the Quantum Computer 13 /Operations on the Transmon Qubit - Circuit QED 14 /Single-qubit operations on the Transmon qubit 15 /Measurements on the Transmon Qubit 16 /Two-qubit operations on the Transmon qubit 17 /Topological qubits: Anyons 18 /Operations on anyons: Braiding 19 /Operations on anyons: Real-life experiments 20 /Topological quantum computing: Majorana fermions and where to find them 21 /Majorana bound states in superconductors 22 /How do you measure Majorana bound states? 23 /A framework for the future Quantum Computer 24 /The Building Blocks of a Quantum Computer 25 /How to build a Quantum Algorithm - Quantum Circuits 26 /How do you program a quantum algorithm? 27 /The compiler of a quantum computer 28 /Micro-architectures 29 /How do we connect our quantum system to a classical interface? 30 /Assembling a Quantum Processor 31 /Microwave drivers for qubits 32 /Implementation of microwave drivers 33 /Quantum error correction 34 /Surface codes 35 /Fault-tolerant Quantum Error Correction with surface codes

Assembling a Quantum Processor

If you have watched the suggested previous videos, then get ready for the real deal! In this video, prof. DiCarlo will show you the design of the quantum processor currently used for the approach to fault-tolerant quantum computing named Surface Code. 

He will start with the architecture of the quantum hardware of the Surface-17 code and show why this new design for a quantum processor is so useful: it can easily be expanded to a larger version of surface code algorithms!.

Prerequisite knowledge

Further Thinking

In the video, professor DiCarlo talks about three examples of surface codes, surface-7, surface-17, surface-49. What do the number ‘7’, ‘17’, and ‘49’ represent? What are these surface codes able to correct?

Solution

Further reading

Read about the different generations of quantum processors shown in the video, all of which are from much-cited papers!