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Integration and Resource Estimation of Cryoelectronics for Superconducting Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers

Quantum Physics 2026-05-05 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Superconductivity Applied Physics

Abstract

Scaling superconducting quantum computers to the fault-tolerant regime calls for a commensurate scaling of the classical control and readout stack. Today's systems largely rely on room-temperature, rack-based instrumentation connected to dilution-refrigerator cryostats through many coaxial cables. Looking ahead, superconducting fault-tolerant quantum computers (FTQCs) will likely adopt a heterogeneous quantum-classical architecture that places selected electronics at cryogenic stages -- for example, cryo-CMOS at 4~K and superconducting digital logic at 4~K and/or mK stages -- to curb wiring and thermal-load overheads. This review distills key requirements, surveys representative room-temperature and cryogenic approaches, and provides a transparent first-order accounting framework for cryoelectronics. Using an RSA-2048-scale benchmark as a concrete reference point, we illustrate how scaling targets motivate constraints on multiplexing and stage-wise cryogenic power, and discuss implications for functional partitioning across room-temperature electronics, cryo-CMOS, and superconducting logic.

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@article{arxiv.2601.03922,
  title  = {Integration and Resource Estimation of Cryoelectronics for Superconducting Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers},
  author = {Shiro Kawabata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03922},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures, to appear in IEICE Special issue: Cryoelectronics Technology Related to Quantum Computing: From Circuits and Devices to Applications (2026)