{"id":164494,"date":"2023-05-24T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T21:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/progressive-quantum-leaps-high-speed-thin-film-lithium-niobate-quantum-processors-driven-by-quantum-emitters"},"modified":"2023-05-24T16:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T21:22:22","slug":"progressive-quantum-leaps-high-speed-thin-film-lithium-niobate-quantum-processors-driven-by-quantum-emitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/progressive-quantum-leaps-high-speed-thin-film-lithium-niobate-quantum-processors-driven-by-quantum-emitters","title":{"rendered":"Progressive quantum leaps\u2014high-speed, thin-film lithium niobate quantum processors driven by quantum emitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/progressive-quantum-leaps-high-speed-thin-film-lithium-niobate-quantum-processors-driven-by-quantum-emitters2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scalable photonic quantum computing architectures require photonic processing devices. Such platforms rely on low-loss, high-speed, reconfigurable circuits and near-deterministic resource state generators. In a new report now published in <i><i>Science<\/i> Advances<\/i>, Patrik Sund and a research team at the center of hybrid quantum networks at the University of Copenhagen, and the University of M\u00fcnster developed an integrated photonic platform with thin-film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/materials-science\/lithium-niobate\">lithium niobate<\/a>. The scientists integrated the platform with deterministic solid-state single photon sources using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/materials-science\/quantum-dot\">quantum dots<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-021-01148-3\">nanophotonic waveguides<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They processed the generated photons within low-loss circuits at speeds of several gigahertz and experimentally realized a variety of key photonic quantum information processing functionalities on high-speed circuits; with inherent key features to develop a four-mode universal photonic circuit. The results illustrate a promising direction in the development of scalable quantum technologies by merging integrated photonics with solid-state deterministic photon sources.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum technologies have progressively advanced in the past several years to enable quantum hardware to compete with and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/31645734\">surpass the capabilities<\/a> of classical supercomputers. However, it is challenging to regulate <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum systems<\/a> at scale for a variety of practical applications and also to form <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.22331\/q-2018-08-06-79\">fault-tolerant quantum technologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scalable photonic quantum computing architectures require photonic processing devices. Such platforms rely on low-loss, high-speed, reconfigurable circuits and near-deterministic resource state generators. In a new report now published in Science Advances, Patrik Sund and a research team at the center of hybrid quantum networks at the University of Copenhagen, and the University of M\u00fcnster developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}