SBIR/STTR Research Award

Ambient Quantum Processor compatible with an All-photonic Repeater Architecture

Award identifier 75d26c22788f879589341ccf980d02b6ce37aaa5397b01ae0ea0ea7a13a7cd9dAwarding agency Department of Defense · Navy

Award amount

$144,000

Program and phase

STTR · Phase I

Award year

2020

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Award details

Awarding agency
Department of Defense
Branch
Navy
Recipient company
CATALYTE, LLC
Proposal award date
2020-06-05
Contract end date
2020-12-07
UEI
CLMTKJF6G7K6
Solicitation number
20.A
Topic code
N20A-T005

Research abstract

The significance of the problem is to deploy combined quantum communication-and-processing near to Navy applications.   Our approach, when successful, would enable small, ambient operating QPUs to be connected at a distance by quantum-secure communication.  Unlike bulky optical components and in-contrast to cryogenic qubits, our system, using in situ generated photons, offers a practical solution for bringing the power of quantum technology to the US Navy requirements.   AFRL demonstrated a quantum communication protocol using optical apparatus at room temperature, and now a next step would be to make the optical apparatus portable reducing component size.  Our team’s patent-granted and-applied approach could enable entanglement swapping, CNOT, and Hadamard processes with petit auxiliary equipment and 3D qubit array footprint facilitating quantum communication nodes and discreet local processing.  Our ersatz Rydberg blockade mechanism eliminates interference at rows and columns of stacked quits, paving-the-way towards small processor footprint.  Our intended portable qubit system would be the basis for a mutually compatible platform of repeater/on-location QPU, assuring continued 21st century US Naval leadership.     Our team’s technological approach applies a cluster of confidential photonic Qubits.  Our design basis for the repeater in a scaled-up version is applied to a fit-for-purpose heterogenous quantum processing chip.  Our fit-for-purpose QPU criteria brings QPU devices faster to market, since they will perform the job needed, but not be general-purpose quantum processor.    Today’s quantum cloud services have made great strides but are curtailed due to the cooling requirements, which limits state-of-the-art quantum computing to “mainframe” ultra-cold facilities.  This ultimately limits on-location data throughput and increases latency; therefore we introduce a method designed for ambient-capable processing.     WVU’s fitting previous and on-going photocatalyst R&D and expertise with computational modeling (COMSOL and DFT) on materials of a somewhat similar class makes a perfect fit to transfer tools and conduct a computational analysis setting-up Phase II.  We will quantify scalability, consider potential manufacturing steps, quantify photon indistinguishability, processor rate, Rabi oscillations, H-Cz-CNOT gate simulation, qubit error physical model and map Phase II prototype fabrication.  WVU will also expertly engage in temperature, microwave frequency and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) towards completion of these goals.  We seek to benefit the USA by our organizations' combined expertise and patented system.

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