WAKE
a member of NANOTEQ
A partnership to meet the challenges of developing quantum hardware
The question isn't why do we want one,
it is how do we build one…
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There are many approaches to the construction of a quantum computer being studied today. Each approach comes with limitations, drawbacks, and challenges. These include low-temperature requirements, phase coherence limits and scalability restrictions. Error sources and propagation are among the biggest concerns.
Instead the QCWG team pursues much different and riskier pathways than those typical in the field. Our approach uses the symmetry preserving properties of complex topologies constructed on 2D manifolds to build robust Qubits/Quregisters. That topology can allow for significant hardness against the environment is a concept we call the stabilization conjecture and it is just one of the ways we try to approach higher temperature operation in quantum hardware.
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This is the core behind - QCWG - an attempt at realizing an architecture for general processing that is mobile, robust and scalable.​
Our focus is complex topological systems
The image above is a 2D topological insulator (Bi2Te3) which is grown to be only a few quintuple layers thick and
made to have a hole in the center. Such systems are a physical realization of the Corbino geometry from which we can test basic expectations of the interaction of fields with simple topologies.
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In the 2D Corbino system, the 1D boundary states that are topologically protected are simply connected. But this does not need to be the case. With newly developed synthesis routes we have been able to create topological manifolds that yield complex connectedness within the protected pathways defined by the material. One of these materials is shown here wherein the protected states form two spiral current paths connected by a topological defect in the central habit plane of the crystal
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the Partnership
Wake Forest U
North Carolina
Quoherent Inc
Alabama
FAU
Erlangen Germany