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This paper demonstrates the operation of a universal RF photonic circuit that consists of a generalized Mach Zehnder Interferometer architecture with its Nx1 combiner replaced by a NxN optical DFT network. The proposed circuit architecture…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Mehedi Hasan , Gazi Mahamud Hasan , Trevor Hall

We demonstrate that important information about linear optical circuits can be obtained through the phase shift induced by integrated optical resonators. As a proof of principle, the phase of an unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer is…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-03 Menno Poot , Hong X. Tang

Integrated quantum photonics provides a scalable platform for the generation, manipulation, and detection of optical quantum states by confining light inside miniaturized waveguide circuits. Here we show the generation, manipulation, and…

Recent reports of large photonic nonlinearities in integrated photonic devices, using the strong excitonic light-matter coupling in semiconductors, necessitate a tailored design framework for quantum processing in the limit of low photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Mathias Van Regemortel , Thomas Van Vaerenbergh

Programmable linear optical interferometers are a core primitive in optical signal processing, quantum information processing, and photonic computing. Existing photonic-integrated implementations realize arbitrary $M$-mode unitaries using…

We present a universal quantum computing architecture which combines the measurement-driven aspect of MBQC with the circuit model's algorithm dependent generation of qubit entanglement. Our architecture, which we call QGATE, is tailored for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Samuel J. Sheldon , Pieter Kok , Callum W. Duncan

Photons are a natural resource in quantum information, and the last decade showed significant progress in high-quality single photon generation and detection. Furthermore, photonic qubits are easy to manipulate and do not require…

An arbitrary lossless transformation in high-dimensional quantum space can be decomposed into elementary operations which are easy to implement, and an effective decomposition algorithm is important for constructing high-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Dong-Xu Chen , Junliang Jia , Pei Zhang , Chui-Ping Yang

We present efficient circuits that can be used for the phase space tomography of quantum states. The circuits evaluate individual values or selected averages of the Wigner, Kirkwood and Husimi distributions. These quantum gate arrays can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juan Pablo Paz , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Marcos Saraceno

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…

We present an experimental platform for linear-optical quantum information processing. Our setup utilizes multiphoton generation using a high-quality single-photon source, which is demultiplexed across multiple spatial channels, a…

A programmable gate array is a circuit whose action is controlled by input data. In this letter we describe a special--purpose quantum circuit that can be programmed to evaluate the expectation value of any operator $O$ acting on a space of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juan Pablo Paz , Augusto Roncaglia

We examine a quantum routing mechanism utilizing a giant-atom-like array coupled to two one-dimensional waveguides. The giant-atom-like array is formed by a one-dimensional array of three-level-systems. In the regime of strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Alexis R. Legón , Mario Miranda , P. A. Orellana

Quantum photonic integrated circuits, composed of linear-optical elements, offer an efficient way for encoding and processing quantum information on-chip. At their core, these circuits rely on reconfigurable phase shifters, typically…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-28 Adam McCaw , Jacob Ewaniuk , Bhavin J. Shastri , Nir Rotenberg

Growing interest in quantum computing for practical applications has led to a surge in the availability of programmable machines for executing quantum algorithms. Present day photonic quantum computers have been limited either to…

Quantum computers require technologies that offer both sufficient control over coherent quantum phenomena and minimal spurious interactions with the environment. We show, that photons confined to photonic crystals, and in particular to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dimitris G. Angelakis , Marcelo Franca Santos , Vassilis Yannopapas , Artur Ekert

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. Considering their wide…

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

Programmable photonic circuits performing universal linear-optical transformations underpin vital functions in photonic quantum information processing, quantum-enhanced sensor networks, machine learning and many other intriguing…