Large-scale quantum photonic circuits in silicon
Quantum information science offers inherently more powerful methods for communication, computation, and precision measurement that take advantage of quantum superposition and entanglement. In recent years, theoretical and experimental advances in quantum computing and simulation with photons have sp...
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| author | Baehr-Jones, Tom Hochberg, Michael Harris, Nicholas Bunandar, Darius Pant, Mihir Steinbrecher, Gregory R. Mower, Jacob Prabhu, Mihika Englund, Dirk R. |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Baehr-Jones, Tom Hochberg, Michael Harris, Nicholas Bunandar, Darius Pant, Mihir Steinbrecher, Gregory R. Mower, Jacob Prabhu, Mihika Englund, Dirk R. |
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| description | Quantum information science offers inherently more powerful methods for communication, computation, and precision measurement that take advantage of quantum superposition and entanglement. In recent years, theoretical and experimental advances in quantum computing and simulation with photons have spurred great interest in developing large photonic entangled states that challenge today’s classical computers. As experiments have increased in complexity, there has been an increasing need to transition bulk optics experiments to integrated photonics platforms to control more spatial modes with higher fidelity and phase stability. The silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nanophotonics platform offers new possibilities for quantum optics, including the integration of bright, nonclassical light sources, based on the large third-order nonlinearity (χ(3)) of silicon, alongside quantum state manipulation circuits with thousands of optical elements, all on a single phase-stable chip. How large do these photonic systems need to be? Recent theoretical work on Boson Sampling suggests that even the problem of sampling from e30 identical photons, having passed through an interferometer of hundreds of modes, becomes challenging for classical computers. While experiments of this size are still challenging, the SOI platform has the required component density to enable low-loss and programmable interferometers for manipulating hundreds of spatial modes.
Here, we discuss the SOI nanophotonics platform for quantum photonic circuits with hundreds-to-thousands of optical elements and the associated challenges. We compare SOI to competing technologies in terms of requirements for quantum optical systems. We review recent results on large-scale quantum state evolution circuits and strategies for realizing high-fidelity heralded gates with imperfect, practical systems. Next, we review recent results on silicon photonics-based photon-pair sources and device architectures, and we discuss a path towards large-scale source integration. Finally, we review monolithic integration strategies for single-photon detectors and their essential role in on-chip feed forward operations. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1076702022-10-01T15:34:41Z Large-scale quantum photonic circuits in silicon Baehr-Jones, Tom Hochberg, Michael Harris, Nicholas Bunandar, Darius Pant, Mihir Steinbrecher, Gregory R. Mower, Jacob Prabhu, Mihika Englund, Dirk R. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Harris, Nicholas Bunandar, Darius Pant, Mihir Steinbrecher, Gregory R. Mower, Jacob Prabhu, Mihika Englund, Dirk R. Quantum information science offers inherently more powerful methods for communication, computation, and precision measurement that take advantage of quantum superposition and entanglement. In recent years, theoretical and experimental advances in quantum computing and simulation with photons have spurred great interest in developing large photonic entangled states that challenge today’s classical computers. As experiments have increased in complexity, there has been an increasing need to transition bulk optics experiments to integrated photonics platforms to control more spatial modes with higher fidelity and phase stability. The silicon-on-insulator (SOI) nanophotonics platform offers new possibilities for quantum optics, including the integration of bright, nonclassical light sources, based on the large third-order nonlinearity (χ(3)) of silicon, alongside quantum state manipulation circuits with thousands of optical elements, all on a single phase-stable chip. How large do these photonic systems need to be? Recent theoretical work on Boson Sampling suggests that even the problem of sampling from e30 identical photons, having passed through an interferometer of hundreds of modes, becomes challenging for classical computers. While experiments of this size are still challenging, the SOI platform has the required component density to enable low-loss and programmable interferometers for manipulating hundreds of spatial modes. Here, we discuss the SOI nanophotonics platform for quantum photonic circuits with hundreds-to-thousands of optical elements and the associated challenges. We compare SOI to competing technologies in terms of requirements for quantum optical systems. We review recent results on large-scale quantum state evolution circuits and strategies for realizing high-fidelity heralded gates with imperfect, practical systems. Next, we review recent results on silicon photonics-based photon-pair sources and device architectures, and we discuss a path towards large-scale source integration. Finally, we review monolithic integration strategies for single-photon detectors and their essential role in on-chip feed forward operations. United States. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-14-1-0052) United States. Air Force Research Laboratory. RITA Program (FA8750-14-2-0120) American Society for Engineering Education. National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship National Science Foundation (U.S.). Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Grant 1122374). 2017-03-23T18:40:00Z 2017-03-23T18:40:00Z 2016-08 2015-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2192-8614 2192-8606 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107670 Harris, Nicholas C. et al. “Large-Scale Quantum Photonic Circuits in Silicon.” Nanophotonics 5.3 (2016): n. pag. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3009-563X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8218-5656 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-323X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9895-0191 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5150-7800 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1367-4509 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2015-0146 Nanophotonics Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Walter de Gruyter De Gruyter |
| spellingShingle | Baehr-Jones, Tom Hochberg, Michael Harris, Nicholas Bunandar, Darius Pant, Mihir Steinbrecher, Gregory R. Mower, Jacob Prabhu, Mihika Englund, Dirk R. Large-scale quantum photonic circuits in silicon |
| title | Large-scale quantum photonic circuits in silicon |
| title_full | Large-scale quantum photonic circuits in silicon |
| title_fullStr | Large-scale quantum photonic circuits in silicon |
| title_full_unstemmed | Large-scale quantum photonic circuits in silicon |
| title_short | Large-scale quantum photonic circuits in silicon |
| title_sort | large scale quantum photonic circuits in silicon |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107670 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3009-563X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8218-5656 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-323X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9895-0191 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5150-7800 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1367-4509 |
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