FPGA-based quantum circuit emulation: A case study on Quantum Fourier transform

Author

Lee, Y.H. ; Khalil-Hani, M. ; Marsono, M.N.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., VeCAD Res. Lab., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

10-12 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

512

Lastpage

515

Abstract

Hardware emulation based on field programmable gate array (FPGA) platform is vital to harness the power of quantum parallelism. As resource requirement grows exponentially in classical modeling quantum system, an optimum hardware architecture is crucial to emulate practical quantum circuits. Quantum Fourier transform (QFT) finds application in several critical quantum algorithms. In this work, experiments are conducted based on QFT to identify suitable qubit representation and hardware design technique. Experimental results show that 24-bit fixed point representation and serial architecture achieve optimal computation accuracy and resource utilization in QFT circuit emulation.

Keywords

Fourier transforms; field programmable gate arrays; FPGA-based quantum circuit emulation; QFT circuit emulation; classical modeling quantum system; critical quantum algorithms; field programmable gate array platform; fixed point representation; hardware design technique; optimal computation accuracy; optimum hardware architecture; quantum Fourier transform; quantum parallelism; qubit representation; resource requirement; resource utilization; serial architecture; word length 24 bit; Computer architecture; Emulation; Hardware; Integrated circuit modeling; Logic gates; Pipelines; Quantum computing; field-programmable gate array; hardware emulation; quantum Fourier transform; quantum circuit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Circuits (ISIC), 2014 14th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISICIR.2014.7029495

Filename

7029495