[itcrowd]

I agree on your other points and trust that you are more qualified to judge what the biggest obstacles are.

Do you have a paper I can look into that goes into the chip architectures in more detail (not specifically for this new device)? Otherwise I'll await the science / nature paper of this demonstration.

The classical circuit is mostly outside the cryo I assume since it's GHz's and LNAs are available. Do you know if the microwave readout signal is frequency multiplexed to reduce cables?

[tagrun]

When you say chip architecture, I assume you mean how to assemble together qubits like an integrated circuit. Here's one proposal for silicon based qubits: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01905-6

Microwave signals are typically used for control rather than readout. I don't know if this experiment does it or not, and I am not an experimentalist. Multiplexing is more typically required for reducing timing errors of simultaneously driven signals (for better synchronization) and it really depends on the device and the mode of operation, plus whether the experiment they're doing needs it or not. The same experimental group sometimes do it one experiment and not do it in another, despite using the same device.

[itcrowd]

Thanks for the reference and your great insights. On reading the new Google paper more closely, they do FM the readout.