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 current tools have been designed and tested under a limited framework for quantum processing. The proposed Phase I effort will produce software tools that accommodate a wide variety of scalable quantum information processor architectures and experimentally validate that the tools are easy to configure and implement, broadly enabling R&D labs to leverage these state-of-the-art characterization protocols. Subsequent Phase II efforts will port the existing software tools over to the framework developed in Phase I, add additional characterization and optimization methods, and enable the efficient and automated characterization and optimization of large-scale quantum information processors.
