Northwestern Unveils a New Method for Studying Large Superconducting Circuits

A research team at Northwestern University has developed a new tool for analyzing large superconducting quantum circuits. As designers add protections to increase the coherence time for quantum circuits, the circuits become more complicated, thus requiring more complicated tools for modeling and analysis.

According to the announcement, “Circuit size is important since protection from detrimental noise tends to come at the cost of increased circuit complexity. Currently there are few tools that tackle the modeling of large circuits, making the Northwestern method an important contribution to the research community.”

Better protected circuits could ultimately lead to longer life for qubits, which could make quantum computers more reliable and increase the accuracy of the results.

See the Northwestern website for more on the project.