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Chip-to-chip quantum teleportation and multi-photon entanglement in silicon

Quantum Physics 2020-02-11 v2

Abstract

Exploiting semiconductor fabrication techniques, natural carriers of quantum information such as atoms, electrons, and photons can be embedded in scalable integrated devices. Integrated optics provides a versatile platform for large-scale quantum information processing and transceiving with photons. Scaling up the integrated devices for quantum applications requires highperformance single-photon generation and photonic qubit-qubit entangling operations. However, previous demonstrations report major challenges in producing multiple bright, pure and identical single-photons, and entangling multiple photonic qubits with high fidelity. Another notable challenge is to noiselessly interface multiphoton sources and multiqubit operators in a single device. Here we demonstrate on-chip genuine multipartite entanglement and quantum teleportation in silicon, by coherently controlling an integrated network of microresonator nonlinear single-photon sources and linear-optic multiqubit entangling circuits. The microresonators are engineered to locally enhance the nonlinearity, producing multiple frequencyuncorrelated and indistinguishable single-photons, without requiring any spectral filtering. The multiqubit states are processed in a programmable linear circuit facilitating Bell-projection and fusion operation in a measurement-based manner. We benchmark key functionalities, such as intra-/inter-chip teleportation of quantum states, and generation of four-photon Greenberger-HorneZeilinger entangled states. The production, control, and transceiving of states are all achieved in micrometer-scale silicon chips, fabricated by complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor processes. Our work lays the groundwork for scalable on-chip multiphoton technologies for quantum computing and communication.

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@article{arxiv.1911.07839,
  title  = {Chip-to-chip quantum teleportation and multi-photon entanglement in silicon},
  author = {Daniel Llewellyn and Yunhong Ding and Imad I. Faruque and Stefano Paesani and Davide Bacco and Raffaele Santagati and Yan-Jun Qian and Yan Li and Yun-Feng Xiao and Marcus Huber and Mehul Malik and Gary F. Sinclair and Xiaoqi Zhou and Karsten Rottwitt and Jeremy L. O Brien and John G. Rarity and Qihuang Gong and Leif K. Oxenlowe and Jianwei Wang and Mark G. Thompson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.07839},
  year   = {2020}
}