Quantum random access memory with transmon-controlled phonon routing

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel QRAM architecture using transmon-controlled phonon routing, enabling coherent superposition data retrieval with high speed and error detection capabilities, advancing quantum memory technology.

Contribution

Introduces a transmon-controlled phonon router and a tree-like QRAM architecture with a hybrid error detection method, improving speed, compactness, and error resilience.

Findings

Supports fast, high-fidelity routing operations

Achieves high heralding rates with current device parameters

Error detection method enhances reliability without extra hardware

Abstract

Quantum random access memory (QRAM) promises simultaneous data queries at multiple memory locations, with data retrieved in coherent superpositions, essential for achieving quantum speedup in many quantum algorithms. We introduce a transmon-controlled phonon router and propose a QRAM implementation by connecting these routers in a tree-like architecture. The router controls the motion of itinerant surface acoustic wave phonons based on the state of the control transmon, implementing the core functionality of conditional routing for QRAM. Our QRAM design is compact, supports fast routing operations, and avoids frequency crowding. Additionally, we propose a hybrid dual-rail encoding method to detect dominant loss errors without additional hardware, a versatile approach applicable to other QRAM platforms. Our estimates indicate that the proposed QRAM platform can achieve high heralding rates using current device parameters, with heralding fidelity primarily limited by transmon dephasing.