Scalable Integration of Long-Lived Quantum Memories into a Photonic Circuit

We demonstrate a photonic circuit with integrated long-lived quantum memories. Precharacterized quantum nodes—diamond microwaveguides containing single, stable, negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers—are deterministically integrated into low-loss silicon nitride waveguides. These quantum nodes...

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Main Authors: Mouradian, Sara L., Poitras, Carl B., Li, Luozhou, Chen, Edward H., Cardenas, Jaime, Markham, Matthew L., Twitchen, Daniel J., Lipson, Michal, Schroder, Tim, Goldstein, Jordan A., Walsh, Michael P., Englund, Dirk Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97878
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author Mouradian, Sara L.
Poitras, Carl B.
Li, Luozhou
Chen, Edward H.
Cardenas, Jaime
Markham, Matthew L.
Twitchen, Daniel J.
Lipson, Michal
Schroder, Tim
Goldstein, Jordan A.
Walsh, Michael P.
Englund, Dirk Robert
author2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Li, Luozhou
Chen, Edward H.
Cardenas, Jaime
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Twitchen, Daniel J.
Lipson, Michal
Schroder, Tim
Goldstein, Jordan A.
Walsh, Michael P.
Englund, Dirk Robert
author_sort Mouradian, Sara L.
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description We demonstrate a photonic circuit with integrated long-lived quantum memories. Precharacterized quantum nodes—diamond microwaveguides containing single, stable, negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers—are deterministically integrated into low-loss silicon nitride waveguides. These quantum nodes efficiently couple into the single-mode waveguides with >1  Mcps collected into the waveguide, have narrow single-scan linewidths below 400 MHz, and exhibit long electron spin coherence times up to 120  μs. Our system facilitates the assembly of multiple quantum nodes with preselected properties into a photonic integrated circuit with near unity yield, paving the way towards the scalable fabrication of quantum information processors.
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spelling mit-1721.1/978782022-09-30T15:14:08Z Scalable Integration of Long-Lived Quantum Memories into a Photonic Circuit Mouradian, Sara L. Poitras, Carl B. Li, Luozhou Chen, Edward H. Cardenas, Jaime Markham, Matthew L. Twitchen, Daniel J. Lipson, Michal Schroder, Tim Goldstein, Jordan A. Walsh, Michael P. Englund, Dirk Robert Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Mouradian, Sara L. Schroder, Tim Li, Luozhou Goldstein, Jordan A. Chen, Edward H. Walsh, Michael P. Englund, Dirk Robert We demonstrate a photonic circuit with integrated long-lived quantum memories. Precharacterized quantum nodes—diamond microwaveguides containing single, stable, negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers—are deterministically integrated into low-loss silicon nitride waveguides. These quantum nodes efficiently couple into the single-mode waveguides with >1  Mcps collected into the waveguide, have narrow single-scan linewidths below 400 MHz, and exhibit long electron spin coherence times up to 120  μs. Our system facilitates the assembly of multiple quantum nodes with preselected properties into a photonic integrated circuit with near unity yield, paving the way towards the scalable fabrication of quantum information processors. United States. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (Quantum Memories) Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Office of the Chief Technologist Space Technology Research Fellowship) United States. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Grant FA9550-11-1-0014) 2015-07-22T12:22:23Z 2015-07-22T12:22:23Z 2015-07 2015-04 2015-07-21T22:00:08Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2160-3308 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97878 Mouradian, Sara L., et al. "Scalable Integration of Long-Lived Quantum Memories into a Photonic Circuit." Phys. Rev. X 5, 031009 (July 2015). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4900-741X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8751-6629 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6404-7735 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9017-0254 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1196-795X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7217-7137 en http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.031009 Physical Review X Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 authors application/pdf American Physical Society American Physical Society
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Poitras, Carl B.
Li, Luozhou
Chen, Edward H.
Cardenas, Jaime
Markham, Matthew L.
Twitchen, Daniel J.
Lipson, Michal
Schroder, Tim
Goldstein, Jordan A.
Walsh, Michael P.
Englund, Dirk Robert
Scalable Integration of Long-Lived Quantum Memories into a Photonic Circuit
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title_full_unstemmed Scalable Integration of Long-Lived Quantum Memories into a Photonic Circuit
title_short Scalable Integration of Long-Lived Quantum Memories into a Photonic Circuit
title_sort scalable integration of long lived quantum memories into a photonic circuit
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