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Scalable Quantum Integrated Circuits on Superconducting Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Platform
Published on: August 2, 2019
A bifunctional superconducting cell as flux qubit and neuron
Dmitrii S Pashin1, Pavel V Pikunov1, Marina V Bastrakova1,2
1Faculty of Physics, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, 603022 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Abstract:
Josephson digital or analog ancillary circuits are an essential part of a large number of modern quantum processors. The natural candidate for the basis of tuning, coupling, and neromorphic co-processing elements for processors based on flux qubits is the adiabatic (reversible) superconducting logic cell. Using the simplest implementation of such a cell as an example, we have investigated the conditions under which it can optionally operate as an auxiliary qubit while maintaining its "classical" neural functionality. The performance and temperature regime estimates obtained confirm the possibility of practical use of a single-contact inductively shunted interferometer in a quantum mode in adjustment circuits for q-processors.
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