This title appears in the Scientific Report :
2020
Please use the identifier:
http://hdl.handle.net/2128/25995 in citations.
Supercomputer simulations of transmon quantum computers
Supercomputer simulations of transmon quantum computers
We develop a simulator for quantum computers composed of superconducting transmon qubits. The simulation model supports an arbitrary number of transmons and resonators. Quantum gates are implemented by time-dependent pulses. Nontrivial effects such as crosstalk, leakage to non-computational states,...
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Personal Name(s): | Willsch, Dennis (Corresponding author) |
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Contributing Institute: |
Jülich Supercomputing Center; JSC Institute for Advanced Simulation; IAS |
Imprint: |
Jülich
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag
2020
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Physical Description: |
IX, 237 S. |
Dissertation Note: |
RWTH Aachen, Diss., 2020 |
ISBN: |
978-3-95806-505-5 |
Document Type: |
Book Dissertation / PhD Thesis |
Research Program: |
Computational Science and Mathematical Methods |
Series Title: |
Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. IAS Series
45 |
Link: |
OpenAccess OpenAccess |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
We develop a simulator for quantum computers composed of superconducting transmon qubits. The simulation model supports an arbitrary number of transmons and resonators. Quantum gates are implemented by time-dependent pulses. Nontrivial effects such as crosstalk, leakage to non-computational states, entanglement between transmons and resonators, and control errors due to the pulses are inherently included. The time evolution of the quantum computer is obtained by solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The simulation algorithm shows excellent scalability on high-performance supercomputers. We present results for the simulation of up to 16 transmons and resonators. Additionally, the model can be used to simulate environments, and we demonstrate the transition from an isolated system to an open quantum system governed by a Lindblad master equation. We also describe a procedure to extract model parameters from electromagnetic simulations or experiments. We compare simulation results to experiments on several NISQ processors of the IBM Q Experience. We find nearly perfect agreement between simulation and experiment for quantum circuits designed to probe crosstalk in transmon systems. By studying common gate metrics such as the fidelity or the diamond distance, we find that they cannot reliably predict the performance of repeated gate applications or practical quantum algorithms. As an alternative, we find that the results from two-transmon gate set tomography have an exceptional predictive power. Finally, we test a protocol from the theory of quantum error correction and fault tolerance. We find that the protocol systematically improves the performance of transmon quantum computers in the presence of characteristic control and measurement errors. |