ESCHER: Establishing Supply Chains for Emergent Quantum Computers

埃舍尔：为新兴量子计算机建立供应链

• 批准号: EP/R041865/1
• 负责人: Ian Walmsley
• 金额: $ 38.63万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FR041865%2F1
• 关键词: ESCHER; Establishing; Supply; Chains; Emergent; ESCHER; Establishing; Supply; Chains; Emergent

A key pillar of the UK National Quantum Technology Programme is the drive towards practical quantum computing devices. This grand challenge, being pursued by commercial and academic institutions globally, has potentially far reaching economic and social implications. The Networked Quantum Information Technologies (NQIT) hub aims to develop networks of trapped ion microprocessors with optical interconnects as a route to fault tolerant quantum computing. The scale of the task for researchers and companies in the field is formidable yet a clear pathway exists for the necessary incremental engineering steps towards this goal. Demonstrations to date have validated the underlying concepts, yet the level of scalability required to deliver, for instance, a universal quantum computer will require groundbreaking developments in quantum hardware engineering. This will inevitably require supply chains to emerge and mature along with the leading developers and researchers in the field.Currently, the groups pushing the limits of a variety of quantum computing and networking disciplines are reliant on bespoke hardware, not widely available and with a high manufacturing overhead. The market opportunity that the partners seek to address, is to position themselves at the core of the emerging supply chain network for a variety of quantum computing and quantum information processing devices. For M Squared Lasers (MSL), this market opportunity will begin with key subsystem supply to their existing worldwide customer base, with whom they are already working closely. The long-term opportunity comes from moving towards vertical integration building upon a wide collaborative network and system integration capabilities. Similarly Covesion (COV) will play a key role in the supply of critical optical components, starting here with nonlinear frequency conversion crystals and waveguide devices for the proposed single photon sources and quantum frequency converters. NQIT is the main research and development effort in the UK pushing quantum computing technologies from the lab to the marketplace. NQIT is therefore ideally placed to work with MSL and COV on developing a supply chain for quantum computing which meets the advanced engineering demands of this emerging sector.The current state-of-the-art for the targeted technologies are complex lab-built devices created ad hoc for specific experiments. The partners have relevant experience in the targeted areas and through the proposed formal collaboration, can create two new product lines that will find applicability in a variety of quantum computing applications.The core of the developments will be: existing product lines at MSL, namely the Sprite XT ultrafast laser and Ice Bloc modular electronics platform; the PPLN product line at COV; existing experience and demonstrations of single photon and quantum frequency converters in the quantum information group at the University of Oxford; lithium niobate waveguide design knowhow from the University of Southampton and extensive experience and knowhow relating to stable, low-noise DC drive electronics for addressing scalable ion trap arrays at the Ion QT group at the University of Sussex.

英国国家量子技术计划的关键支柱是驱动实用量子计算设备的动力。全球商业和学术机构所追求的这一巨大挑战可能具有经济和社会的影响。网络量子信息技术（NQIT）中心旨在开发具有光学互连的被困离子微处理器的网络，以作为错误耐受量子计算的途径。该领域的研究人员和公司的任务规模是巨大的，但对于实现这一目标的必要增量工程步骤而存在明确的途径。迄今为止的演示已经验证了基本概念，但是传递所需的可扩展性水平，例如通用量子计算机将需要量子硬件工程中的开创性开发。这将不可避免地需要供应链与该领域的领先开发人员和研究人员一起出现和成熟。目前，推动各种量子计算和网络学科的限制的群体依赖定制硬件，不广泛可用，不广泛可用，而且在头顶上很高。合作伙伴寻求解决的市场机会是将自己定位在新兴供应链网络的核心上，以提供各种量子计算和量子信息处理设备。对于M平方激光器（MSL），这种市场机会将从对其现有的全球客户群的关键子系统供应开始，他们已经密切合作。长期机会来自朝着广泛的协作网络和系统集成功能迈向垂直集成。类似地，Covesion（COV）将在关键光学组件的供应中起关键作用，从这里开始，从非线性频率转换晶体和波导设备开始，用于提议的单个光子源和量子频转换器。 NQIT是英国的主要研发工作，将量子计算技术从实验室推向市场。因此，NQIT是与MSL和COV合作的理想位置，用于开发量子计算供应链，以满足该新兴行业的先进工程需求。目标技术的最新技术是复杂的实验室构建设备，创建了用于特定实验的临时设备。合作伙伴在目标领域具有相关的经验，并且通过拟议的正式合作，可以创建两个新产品线，以在各种量子计算应用程序中找到适用性。开发的核心将是：MSL的现有产品线，即Sprite XT Ultrafast Laser和Ice Bloc Modull Electronic平台； COV的PPLN产品线；牛津大学量子信息组中单光子和量子频率转换器的现有经验和演示； Niobate Waveguide Design的设计知识渊博，并具有丰富的经验，并且与稳定的低噪声DC Drive电子设备有关，以解决Sussex University的ION QT Group的可伸缩离子陷阱阵列。