Application US20190164076

SOFTWARE-DEFINED QUANTUM COMPUTER
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US20190164076

1. A software-defined quantum computer, comprising: (3) (2)

a control unit configured to receive programming instructions from a software program and generate control signals based at least in part on the programming instructions; and

a plurality of qubits, wherein a number of the plurality of qubits and connections between any two of the plurality of qubits are enabled and controlled by the control signals from the control unit.

2. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 1, wherein a hardware description language is used to configure the control unit and the plurality of qubits. (0)

3. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to dynamically generate control signals to adjust the number of the plurality of qubits and the connections between any two of the plurality of qubits. (1) (0)

4. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 1, wherein the plurality of qubits are configured to perform specified quantum operations associated with the software program, and wherein one or more exceptions are handled during execution of the software program. (0)

6. A software-defined quantum computer, comprising: (2) (2)

a plurality of modules, each module having a control unit, a communication control unit, and a plurality of qubits, each control unit being configured to receive programming instructions from a software program and generate control signals based at least in part on the programming instructions, and a number of the plurality of qubits and connections between any two of the plurality of qubits are enabled and controlled by the control signals from the control unit; and

a switch/router unit configured to enable communication channels from the communication control unit from each of the plurality of modules.

7. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 6, wherein a number of the plurality of modules is dynamically changed. (0)

8. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 6, wherein each communication control unit is configured to receive programming instructions from the software program and generate control signals based at least in part on the programming instructions. (2) (0)

9. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 8, wherein each communication control unit controls at least one of the plurality of qubits in connection with a respective communications channel. (0)

10. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 8, wherein: (0) (3)

11. A software-defined quantum computing architecture, comprising: (4) (3)

an application programming interface (API);

a quantum operating system (OS) on which the API executes, the quantum OS including a resource manager and a switch; and

a plurality of quantum cores connected via the switch, the resource manager being configured to determine the allocation of qubits in the plurality of quantum cores.

12. The software-defined quantum computing architecture of claim 11, wherein the plurality of quantum cores are a heterogeneous architecture. (1) (0)

14. The software-defined quantum computing architecture of claim 11, wherein the plurality of quantum cores are a homogeneous architecture. (0)

15. The software-defined quantum computing architecture of claim 11, wherein the switch includes a soft switch and a hard switch. (0)

16. The software-defined quantum computing architecture of claim 11, wherein one or more of the plurality of quantum cores has a classical channel and a quantum channel connected to the switch. (0)

17. A method for compiling source code for a software-defined quantum computer, comprising: (1) (3)

performing a lexical analysis on a high-level intermediate representation of a quantum programming language;

performing semantic analysis on an output of the lexical analysis; and

producing a mid-level intermediate representation of the quantum programming language based on an output of the semantic analysis.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein performing the semantic analysis includes performing an operational semantic analysis and performing a denotational semantic analysis. (0)

19. A computer-readable medium storing code with instructions executable by a processor for compiling source code for a software-defined quantum computer, comprising: (1) (3)

code for performing a lexical analysis on a high-level intermediate representation of a quantum programming language;

code for performing semantic analysis on an output of the lexical analysis; and

code for producing a mid-level intermediate representation of the quantum programming language based on an output of the semantic analysis.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the code for performing the semantic analysis includes code for performing an operational semantic analysis and code for performing a denotational semantic analysis. (0)

21. A software-defined quantum computer, comprising: (6) (5)

a first control unit; and

a second control unit,

wherein the first control unit is configured to receive programming instructions from a software program and generate first control signals, and a first plurality of qubits is enabled and controlled by the first control signals from the first control unit,

wherein the second control unit is configured to receive programming instructions from the software program and generate second control signals, and a second plurality of qubits is enabled and controlled by the second control signals from the second control unit, and

wherein the first control unit is further configured to shuttle a number of the first plurality of qubits to be controlled by the second control unit such that a number of the second plurality of qubits is increased by the number of the first plurality of qubits that are shuttled.

22. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 21, wherein the programming instructions received by the first control unit are different than the programming instructions received by the second control unit. (0)

23. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 21, wherein the number of the first plurality of qubits that are shuttled includes information associated with the first plurality of qubits, and the information is transferred to the second plurality of qubits by the number of the first plurality of qubits that are shuttled. (0)

24. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 21, wherein a number of control units including the first control unit and the second control unit is dynamically changed. (0)

25. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 21, wherein the programming instructions received by the first control unit include communication instructions to shuttle the number of the first plurality of qubits to be controlled by the second control unit. (0)

26. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 21 wherein the number of the first plurality of qubits shuttled to be controlled by the second control unit includes one or more qubits and the shuttling of the one or more qubits establishes a communications channel between the first plurality of qubits and the second plurality of qubits. (0)

27. The software-defined quantum computer of claim 21, wherein: (0) (2)

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Application US20190164076

SOFTWARE-DEFINED QUANTUM COMPUTER

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