The emerging field of Quantum Information Science promises to transform computing, communications, and security. Our Fusion Science & Ion Beam Technology (FS&IBT) Program researchers are exploring innovative approaches that employ the spin of atoms and particles and the polarization of light to create and control qubits—the fundamental building blocks of quantum technologies. Additionally, researchers from our Berkeley Accelerator Controls and Instrumentation (BACI) Program have developed an open-source quantum bit control system called QubiC, which is designed to control and measure a superconducting quantum processing unit.
ATAP’s FS&IBT Program is exploring novel qubit candidates and qubit synthesis approaches enabled by beams and plasmas. This includes conventional ion implantation and exploration of femtosecond-laser and laser-driven ion pulses for qubit and quantum materials synthesis.
ATAP’s Berkeley Accelerator Controls and Instrumentation Program has developed an open-source quantum bit control system named QubiC, designed to control and measure a superconducting quantum processing unit. QubiC is based on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), a commercial off-the-shelf technology familiar from classical control systems.
