Simulating Distributed Grover’s Search Algorithm for Quantum Hardware Pulse Control

Quantum device pulse control software are currently non-quantum processes, exposing quantum processing unit (QPU) architectures to exploit, such as by quantum attacks. Common pulse control software methods using CORDICs on field programmable grate array chips (FPGAs) are fast and light, but no evaluation of quantum attack on FPGA transceiver elements has been done, or their use in quantum network QKD transceivers that could affect QPUs, quantum networks, and distributed quantum algorithms. Additionally, new quantum algorithmic approaches for PCA could enable machine learning PCA analysis of circuits, transceivers, and FPGAs but also be deployed as QML applications on QPUs against other QPUs. 

We propose utilizing Grover’s Search algorithm (GSA) for pulse control replacement. We identify that GSA run on one QPU can operate the pulse controls of another QPU or other device, even as a distributed Grover’s Search algorithm (DGSA). To test the practicalities of DGSA, we code and simulate DGSA on classical and quantum resources using modern testing repositories. Then, we establish the implementability of GSA for pulse control. This is meant to direct the general development of a full stack quantum architecture using only quantum algorithms to help safeguard quantum hardware.