A 4.2mW 4K 6-8GHz CMOS LNA for Superconducting Qubit Readout
 
A 4.2mW 4K 6-8GHz CMOS LNA for Superconducting Qubit Readout ■
 
Alican Caglar, Alican Caglar, Alican Caglar, Steven Van Winckel, Steven Van Winckel, Steven Van Winckel, Steven Brebels, Steven Brebels, Steven Brebels, Piet Wambacq, Piet Wambacq, Piet Wambacq, Jan Craninckx, Jan Craninckx, Jan Craninckx
 
Abstract ■

Millions of qubits need to be employed in a quantum computer to achieve a fault-tolerant quantum operation. To reduce the complexity in such a large-scale system, the control and readout circuitries have been proposed to be placed at the 4 K stage of dilution refrigerators [1]. CMOS technology is commonly used to leverage its scaling to enable large integration of control and readout circuitries with qubits. However, the high-fidelity readout operations require low noise amplifiers (LNAs) with a noise temperature of a few Kelvins. This necessitates the usage of HEMT and parametric amplifiers [2]. Recently reported CMOS LNAs are still far away from attaining such good performance [3-5]. Thus, this is one of the greatest challenges on the way to the fully integrated CMOS readout. Additionally, due to the limited cooling power of dilution refrigerators, low-power solutions are needed for achieving a very good noise performance at 4 K. This paper presents a 28 nm CMOS LNA for qubit readout, which achieves an order of magnitude power reduction compared to its CMOS counterparts while still providing a similar good noise Figure (NF) performance at 4 K.