Quantum Orchestration - Integrated hardware and software for design and execution of complex quantum control protocols, Part 1

The incredible progress in designing quantum systems, engineering their environment, and controlling them effectively, has led to significant improvements in coherence times, gate fidelities, and the ability to integrate more qubits into a single quantum processor. While the development of quantum processors remains the number one challenge, many bottlenecks exist in the classical control hardware layer as well as the software layer, where optimizations can play a critical role for near term quantum computing. Some examples include (1) feedback for error correction and repeat until success protocols, (2) complex calibrations, and (3) hybrid quantum-classical algorithms.

Here we present a new platform for designing quantum control protocols, executing them on a wide range of quantum hardware, and optimizing performance. The platform, called Quantum Orchestration Platform incorporates a unique FPGA architecture and integrates classical hardware and software in a novel way that allows for combining the most cutting-edge real-time control capabilities with an intuitive programming environment and language. We show examples and present results of several protocols, including multi-qubit feedback and complex control flow.