An Emulation of Quantum Error-Correction on an FPGA device
Michael Hart, John Mc Allister, Leo Rogers, Charles J. Gillan · 2021
Practical fault-tolerant quantum computation faces enormous engineering challenges and emulation is a key support for quantum algorithm development in the meantime. Field-Programmable Gate Array are promising hosts for these emulators but have seen almost no application to this problem so far. This paper presents emulation of an error-correct qubit via a 9-qubit Shor code on Xilinx FPGA. It shows how by exploiting sparsity linked to the errors, operational complexity can be reduced by more than 99% and high-fidelity operation enabled by 11-bit floating point computation.