Quantum Computers face a critical limitation in qubit numbers, hindering their progression towards large-scale and fault-tolerant quantum computing.A significant challenge impeding scaling is crosstalk, characterized by unwanted interactions among neighboring components on quantum chips, including qubits, resonators, and substrates.We motivate a general approach to systematically resolving multifaceted crosstalks in a limited substrate area.We propose QPlacer, a frequency-aware electrostatic-based placement framework tailored for superconducting quantum computers, to alleviate crosstalk by isolating these components in spatial and frequency domains alongside compact substrate design.QPlacer commences with a frequency assigner that ensures frequency domain isolation for qubits and resonators.It then incorporates a padding strategy and resonator partitioning for layout flexibility.Central to our approach is the conceptualization of quantum components as charged particles, enabling strategic spatial isolation through a 'frequency repulsive force' concept.Our results demonstrate that QPlacer carefully crafts the physical component layout in mitigating various crosstalk impacts while maintaining a compact substrate size.On various device topologies and NISQ benchmarks, QPlacer improves fidelity by an average of 37.5× and reduces spatial violations (susceptible to crosstalk) by an average of 12.76×, compared to classical placement engines.Regarding area

Reading a qubit is a fundamental operation in quantum computing. It translates quantum information into classical information enabling subsequent classification to assign the qubit states '0' or '1'. Unfortunately, qubit readout is one of the most error-prone and slowest operations on a superconducting quantum processor. On state-of-the-art superconducting quantum processors, readout errors can range from 1--10%. These errors occur for various reasons - crosstalk, spontaneous state transitions, and excitation caused by the readout pulse. The error-prone nature of readout has resulted in significant research to design better discriminators to achieve higher qubit-readout accuracies. High readout accuracy is essential for enabling high fidelity for near-term noisy quantum computers and error-corrected quantum computers of the future.