SBIR/STTR Award attributes
Quantum information processing has the potential to revolutionize the U.S. economy, with a potential market value of hundreds of billions of dollars for quantum-information based technologies in a wide variety of sectors, including pharmaceuticals, energy, transportation, and cyber security. A major obstacle to realizing this potential is overcoming the error-prone nature of quantum information, which is exponentially complex in the processor size. This exponential complexity makes designing and characterizing quantum hardware extremely challenging. Quantum Benchmark Inc. has developed methods for efficiently characterizing large-scale quantum information processors and software tools implementing those methods. The proposed Phase II effort will produce software tools that can be used to automatically characterize and optimize a wide variety of scalable quantum information processor architectures, both at the physical and the logical level. The effort will empirically validate that the tools are easy to configure and implement, and that these tools will broadly enable R&D labs to automatically characterize and optimize large-scale quantum information processors as such processors are developed, rapidly decreasing the fabrication-to-testing design cycles of next-generation quantum hardware and generating and validating robust performance.
