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We introduce a general scheme for sequential one-way quantum computation where static systems with long-living quantum coherence (memories) interact with moving systems that may possess very short coherence times. Both the generation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Augusto J. Roncaglia , Leandro Aolita , Alessandro Ferraro , Antonio Acin

This paper presents a scheme for linear-optical implementation of a programmable quantum router. Polarization encoded photon qubit is coherently routed to various spatial modes according to the state of several control qubits. In our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 Karel Lemr , Antonín Černoch

We report an optical one-way quantum computing experiment with stationary quantum memory involved. First we create a hybrid four-qubit cluster state with two qubits propagating as photons and the other two stationary and stored in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Xiao-Fan Xu , Xiao-Hui Bao , Jian-Wei Pan

Programmable photonic integrated circuits represent an emerging technology that amalgamates photonics and electronics, paving the way for light-based information processing at high speeds and low power consumption. Programmable photonics…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-25 Kevin Zelaya , Matthew Markowitz , Mohammad-Ali Miri

Quantum computing can be realized with numerous different hardware platforms and computational protocols. A highly promising approach to foster scalability is to apply a photonic platform combined with a measurement-induced quantum…

The future challenge of quantum communication are scalable quantum networks, which require coherent and reversible mapping of photonic qubits onto stationary atomic systems (quantum memories). A crucial requirement for realistic networks is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Imam Usmani , Mikael Afzelius , Hugues de Riedmatten , Nicolas Gisin

Classical electromagnetic fields and quantum mechanics -- both obey the principle of superposition alike. This opens up many avenues for simulation of a large variety of phenomena and algorithms, which have hitherto been considered quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-07 Sooryansh Asthana , V. Ravishankar

Programmable photonic circuits (PPCs) have garnered substantial interest in achieving deep learning accelerations and universal quantum computations. Although photonic computation using PPCs offers critical advantages, including ultrafast…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-11 Xianji Piao , Sunkyu Yu , Namkyoo Park

We analyze a quantum optical memory based on the off-resonant Raman interaction of a single broadband photon, copropagating with a classical control pulse, with an atomic ensemble. The conditions under which the memory can perform optimally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Nunn , I. A. Walmsley , M. G. Raymer , K. Surmacz , F. C. Waldermann , Z. Wang , D. Jaksch

Unitary transformations are the fundamental building blocks of gates and operations in quantum information processing allowing the complete manipulation of quantum systems in a coherent manner. In the case of photons, optical elements that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 Florian Brandt , Markus Hiekkamäki , Frédéric Bouchard , Marcus Huber , Robert Fickler

We introduce an adaptable and modular hybrid architecture designed for fault-tolerant quantum computing. It combines quantum emitters and linear-optical entangling gates to leverage the strength of both matter-based and photonic-based…

Quantum computing promises to exploit the laws of quantum mechanics for processing information in ways fundamentally different from today's classical computers, leading to unprecedented efficiency. One-way quantum computation, sometimes…

Here we present an experimentally feasible quantum memory for individual polarization photon with long-lived atomic ensembles excitations. Based a process similar to teleportation, the memory is reversible. And the storage information can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 G. P. Guo , G. C. Guo

Quantum memory devices with high storage efficiency and bandwidth are essential elements for future quantum networks. Solid-state quantum memories can provide broadband storage, but they primarily suffer from low storage efficiency. We use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Yisheng Lei , Haechan An , Zongfeng Li , Mahdi Hosseini

We have developed an algorithm that constructs a model of a reconfigurable optical interferometer, independent of specific architectural constraints. The programming of unitary transformations on the interferometer's optical modes relies on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Sergei S. Kuzmin , Ivan V. Dyakonov , Stanislav S. Straupe

Fusion-based quantum computing with dual-rail qubits is a leading candidate for scalable quantum computing using linear optics. This paradigm requires single photons which are entangled into small resource states before being fed into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Margaret Pavlovich , Peter Rakich , Shruti Puri

We experimentally demonstrate a programmable single-qubit quantum gate. This device applies a unitary phase shift operation to a data qubit with the value of the phase shift being fully determined by the state of a program qubit. Our linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michal Micuda , Miroslav Jezek , Miloslav Dusek , Jaromir Fiurasek

Photonic circuits are central to classical and quantum information processing. While integrated technologies dominate, free-space architectures are emerging as attractive alternatives, offering broad bandwidth and direct manipulation of…

We propose a method that enables efficient storage and retrieval of a photonic excitation stored in an ensemble quantum memory consisting of Lambda-type absorbers with non-zero Stokes shift. We show that this can be used to implement a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Surmacz , J. Nunn , F. C. Waldermann , K. C. Lee , Z. Wang , I. A. Walmsley , D. Jaksch

Quantum access to arbitrary classical data encoded in unitary black-box oracles underlies interesting data-intensive quantum algorithms, such as machine learning or electronic structure simulation. The feasibility of these applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Shuchen Zhu , Aarthi Sundaram , Guang Hao Low