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Seminar - Towards Networked Quantum Memories on Photonic Integrated Circuits


on 30-11-2015

... Dirk Englund (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Monday 30/11/2015, at 15:00
Room P8, Mathematics Building, IST

We discuss progress towards the development of on-chip quantum networks of multiple spin qubits in nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. This talk will describe NV-nanocavity systems in the strong Purcell regime with optical quality factors approaching 10,000 and electron spin coherence times approaching milliseconds; implantation of NVs with nanometer-scale apertures into the cavity field maximum; hybrid on-chip networks for integration of multiple functional NV-cavity systems; and techniques for high-yield integration of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors on-chip.

Quantum Computation and Information Seminar
http://math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/seminars/qci/index.php.en?action=next

Support: Phys-Info (IT), SQIG (IT), CFIF and CAMGSD, with support from FCT, FEDER and EU FP7, namely via the Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information (DP-PMI), and projects PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013, QuSim, QUTE-EUROPE (GA 600788), Landauer (318287) and PAPETS (323901).
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Talk - Quantum walks in synthetic gauge fields with 3D integrated photonics


on 27-11-2015

... Leonardo Novo (Physics of Information Group, IT & IST, ULisbon)
27/11/2015, 14:00
Room P9, Mathematics Building, IST

There is great interest in designing photonic devices capable of disorder-resistant transport and information processing. In this work we propose to exploit 3D integrated photonic circuits in order to realize 2D discrete-time quantum walks in a background synthetic gauge field, for both the single and many walker case. The gauge fields are generated by introducing the appropriate phase shifts between waveguides. Polarization-independent phase shifts lead to an Abelian or magnetic field, a case we describe in detail. We find that, in the disordered case, the magnetic field enhances transport due to the presence of topologically protected chiral edge states which do not localize. Polarization-dependent phase shifts lead to effective non-Abelian gauge fields, which could be adopted to realize Rashba-like quantum walks with spin-orbit coupling. Our work introduces a flexible platform for the experimental study of multi-particle quantum walks in the presence o f synthetic gauge fields, which paves the way towards topologically robust transport of many-body states of photons.

Quantum Computation and Information Seminar
http://math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/seminars/qci/index.php.en?action=next

Support: Phys-Info (IT), SQIG (IT), CFIF and CAMGSD, with support from FCT, FEDER and EU FP7, namely via the Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information (DP-PMI), and projects PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013, QuSim, QUTE-EUROPE (GA 600788), Landauer (318287) and PAPETS (323901).
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