Reference number : GC-2017-Q3-00856, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Voinigescu, Sorin (University of Toronto), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Strategic Projects - Group, program name french : Projets stratégiques - groupe, program purpose english : The overall objective of this 3-year long project is to utilize a proven, mass-production sub-14nm CMOS foundry technology to develop the critical building blocks required for quantum computing. This will be carried out in close collaboration with a global leader in the this field, namely Intel, in Canada. The expected outcomes of the proposed research include the atomic-level simulation, design, fabrication and experimental characterization of a set of Si and SiGe electron and hole coupled qubits utilizing the coupled quantum-dot approach, along with the associated ultra-low-temperature microwave and mm-wave analog-mixed-signal spin-manipulation and spin-readout electronic circuits. In parallel with the electronic qubits, we plan to also deliver, for the first time, the capabilities of generating and coupling optical quantum states to the aforementioned qubits within the same material CMOS platform. This, in turn, empowers the connectivity of this quantum computing architecture for future extended-range interconnection between the electronic quantum computing logic blocks through photons. The optical qubits will be based on entangled and hybrid entangled photons possessing energies that can interact, hence couple, with the electronic qubits. At present, there is no practical, integrated fashion by which photons can be generated and manipulated to interact with electronic Si qubits._x000D_
The qubit structures and the associated analog-mixed-signal electronic circuits proposed here have the greatest long-term (10 years) chance of operation at room temperature in a large volume CMOS-like technology platform. This would dramatically revolutionize the field of quantum computing, making it possible to put a mobile quantum computer with the power of today's largest supercomputer in everyone's pocket and at the price of today's smartphones._x000D_
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_x000D_, program purpose french : The overall objective of this 3-year long project is to utilize a proven, mass-production sub-14nm CMOS foundry technology to develop the critical building blocks required for quantum computing. This will be carried out in close collaboration with a global leader in the this field, namely Intel, in Canada. The expected outcomes of the proposed research include the atomic-level simulation, design, fabrication and experimental characterization of a set of Si and SiGe electron and hole coupled qubits utilizing the coupled quantum-dot approach, along with the associated ultra-low-temperature microwave and mm-wave analog-mixed-signal spin-manipulation and spin-readout electronic circuits. In parallel with the electronic qubits, we plan to also deliver, for the first time, the capabilities of generating and coupling optical quantum states to the aforementioned qubits within the same material CMOS platform. This, in turn, empowers the connectivity of this quantum computing architecture for future extended-range interconnection between the electronic quantum computing logic blocks through photons. The optical qubits will be based on entangled and hybrid entangled photons possessing energies that can interact, hence couple, with the electronic qubits. At present, there is no practical, integrated fashion by which photons can be generated and manipulated to interact with electronic Si qubits._x000D_
The qubit structures and the associated analog-mixed-signal electronic circuits proposed here have the greatest long-term (10 years) chance of operation at room temperature in a large volume CMOS-like technology platform. This would dramatically revolutionize the field of quantum computing, making it possible to put a mobile quantum computer with the power of today's largest supercomputer in everyone's pocket and at the price of today's smartphones._x000D_
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_x000D_, agreement title english : Silicon quantum computing hardware in nanoscale CMOS, agreement title french : Silicon quantum computing hardware in nanoscale CMOS, agreement number : STPGP, agreement value : 483000.0, agreement start date : 2017-10-18, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2020-2021)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2020-2021)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada