Inter-Temperature Bandwidth Reduction in Cryogenic QAOA Machines
Yosuke Ueno, Yuna Tomida, Teruo Tanimoto, Masamitsu Tanaka, Yutaka Tabuchi, Koji Inoue, Hiroshi Nakamura · IEEE Computer Architecture Letters · 2023
The bandwidth limit between cryogenic and room-temperature environments is a critical bottleneck in superconducting noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers. This paper presents the first trial of algorithm-aware system-level optimization to solve this issue by targeting the quantum approximate optimization algorithm. Our counter-based cryogenic architecture using single-flux quantum logic shows exponential bandwidth reduction and decreases heat inflow and peripheral power consumption of inter-temperature cables, which contributes to the scalability of superconducting quantum computers.