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At the cross-roads of effective quantum information processing with integrated optical gates

Peter G. R. Smith, James C. Gates, Christopher H. Holmes, Lewis G. Carpenter, Dmytro O. Kundys, Paolo L. Mennea, Matthew T. Posner

Published May 24, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

The use of a silica integrated optical platform developed for the telecoms industry is allowing demonstrations of quantum operations with single photons and Bragg gratings that are challenging notions of classical computing. Operations such as Boson Sampling, number resolving photon detection at 1550nm, quantum teleportation and non-classical interferometry will be reported.

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