FAlCon: A unified framework for algorithmic control of quantum dot devices
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This work addresses the challenges in scaling quantum dot devices—namely high control complexity, significant device variability, heterogeneous electronics stacks, and inconsistent operating protocols—which hinder the portability of tuning and characterization workflows across platforms. The authors present the first hardware-agnostic automated control framework that decouples algorithmic intent from instrument-specific implementation. This is achieved through a lightweight domain-specific language for expressing tuning logic, coupled with a transferable physics-informed data structure (“tuning vernacular”) and a modular library of measurement protocols. The resulting open-source ecosystem enables automated tuning and characterization on heterogeneous hardware, substantially accelerating research and development while providing a transferable software architecture adaptable to other qubit modalities.
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📝 Abstract
As spin-based quantum systems scale, their setup and control complexity increase sharply. In semiconductor quantum dot (QD) experiments, device-to-device variability, heterogeneous control-electronics stacks, and differing operational modalities make it difficult to reuse characterization, calibration, and control logic across laboratories. We present FAlCon, an open-source software ecosystem for portable, automated characterization and tuning measurement workflows. FAlCon provides (i) a lightweight domain-specific language for expressing state-based tuning logic in a hardware-agnostic form; (ii) specialized transmittable libraries of physics-informed QD data structures (``tuning vernacula''); and (iii) extensible libraries of shared measurement protocols enabling an interoperable lab-agnostic measurement stack. By separating algorithm intent from instrument realization, while preserving traceability and supporting typed scripting, FAlCon enables researchers and engineers to exchange, adapt, and deploy characterization and autotuning routines across heterogeneous QD setups. The framework supports all users, ranging from end users running prebuilt algorithms with custom initial conditions to developers extending instrumentation support and contributing new tuning strategies. Although the present release targets QD experiments, other qubit modalities and scientific experiments could reuse FAlCon's modular abstractions by providing new tuning data types and instrument control templates.
Problem
Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
quantum dot
device variability
control complexity
calibration reuse
heterogeneous systems
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
quantum dot control
hardware-agnostic framework
domain-specific language
physics-informed data structures
automated tuning
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