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Realization of quantum optical circuits is at the heart of quantum photonic information processing. A long-standing obstacle however has been the absence of a platform of single photon sources (SPSs) that simultaneously satisfies the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Jiefei Zhang , Swarnabha Chattaraj , Qi Huang , Lucas Jordao , Siyuan Lu , Anupam Madhukar

Photonics offers unique advantages as a substrate for quantum information processing, but imposes fundamental scalability challenges. Nondeterministic schemes impose massive resource overheads, while deterministic schemes require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Ben Bartlett , Avik Dutt , Shanhui Fan

Squeezed states of light are essential for emerging quantum technology in metrology and information processing. Chip-integrated photonics offers a route to scalable and efficient squeezed light generation, however, parasitic nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-25 Alexander E. Ulanov , Bastian Ruhnke , Thibault Wildi , Tobias Herr

Trapped-ion quantum computing requires precise optical control for individual qubit manipulation. However, conventional free-space optics face challenges in alignment stability and scalability as the number of qubits increases. Integrated…

The deterministic control of light-matter interactions at the level of single particles and on subwavelength scales is central to quantum optics and hybrid integrated quantum technologies. However, combining cold atom research with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 J. T. Hansen , F. Gargiulo , J. B. Mathiassen , J. H. Müller , E. S. Polzik , J. -B. Béguin

Quantum light sources are characterized by their distinctive statistical distribution of photons. For example, single photons and correlated photon pairs exhibit antibunching and reduced variance in the number distribution that is…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-25 Sunil Mittal , Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt , Mohammad Hafezi

Quantum emitters coupled to nanophotonic structures are an excellent platform for controllable single-photon scattering. The tunable light-matter interaction enables the construction of a single-photon switch -- a device that can route a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Mateusz Duda , Nicholas J. Martin , Eve O. Mills , Luke R. Wilson , Pieter Kok

Increasing control of single photons enables new applications of photonic quantum-enhanced technology and further experimental exploration of fundamental quantum phenomena. Here, we demonstrate quantum logic using narrow linewidth photons…

In the last decade, there has been remarkable progress on the practical integration of on-chip quantum photonic devices yet quantum state generators remain an outstanding challenge. Simultaneously, the quantum-dot photonic-crystal-resonator…

In analogy to transistors in classical electronic circuits, a quantum optical switch is an important element of quantum circuits and quantum networks. Operated at the fundamental limit where a single quantum of light or matter controls…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-24 T. G. Tiecke , J. D. Thompson , N. P. de Leon , L. R. Liu , V. Vuletić , M. D. Lukin

The scaling barriers currently faced by both quantum networking and quantum computing technologies ultimately amount to the same core challenge of distributing high-quality entanglement at scale. In this Perspective, a novel quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Stephanie Simmons

Hybrid integrated quantum photonics combines solid-state artificial atoms with reconfigurable photonic circuits, enabling scalable chip-based quantum networks. Self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) are ideal for this goal due to their ability…

Photonics is the platform of choice to build a modular, easy-to-network quantum computer operating at room temperature. However, no concrete architecture has been presented so far that exploits both the advantages of qubits encoded into…

The heteroepitaxy of III-V semiconductors on silicon is a promising approach for making silicon a photonic platform for on-chip optical interconnects and quantum optical applications. Monolithic integration of both material systems is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Wiesner , W. -M. Schulz , C. Kessler , M. Reischle , R. Rossbach , M. Jetter , P. Michler

Integrated photonic circuits offer great promise for quantum technologies. However, due to the rapid propagation of light, many envisioned applications require efficient on-chip quantum memories with a programmable delay, compact footprint,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Stephan Rinner , Jonas Schmitt , Kilian Sandholzer , Andreas Reiserer

Quantum interference of indistinguishable photons is the foundation of photonic quantum technologies, yet scaling from a few to many identical quantum light sources remains a major challenge. In solid-state platforms, spatial and spectral…

Multiphoton entanglement plays a critical role in quantum information processing, and greatly improves our fundamental understanding of the quantum world. Despite tremendous efforts in either bulk media or fiber-based devices, nonlinear…

In order to overcome the challenge of lacking polarization encoding in integrated quantum photonic circuits, we propose a scheme to realize arbitrary polarization manipulation of a single photon by integrating a single quantum emitter in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Yunning Lu , Zeyang Liao , Xue-hua Wang

We report the first entanglement generation experiment using an on-chip slow light device. With highly efficient spontaneous four-wave mixing enhanced by the slow light effect in a coupled resonator optical waveguide based on a silicon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Hiroki Takesue , Nobuyuki Matsuda , Eiichi Kuramochi , Masaya Notomi

Future quantum computation and networks require scalable monolithic circuits, which incorporate various advanced functionalities on a single physical substrate. Although substantial progress for various applications has already been…