Quantum computation without strict strong coupling on a silicon chip (6 pages)

Rogério de Sousa, Juan D. Delgado

Xiao, Yunfeng Yunfeng, Han +3 more

Yun‐Feng Xiao, Zheng‐Fu Han, Guang‐Can Guo

We propose a potential quantum-computer hardware-architecture model on a silicon chip in which the basic cell gate is the atom-photon controlled-phase-flip gate. This gate can be implemented through a single-photon pulse's scattering by a toroidal microcavity trapping a neutral atom, and it does not require very strict strong-coupling regime and can work beyond the Lamb-Dicke limit with high fidelity and success probability under practical noise environments. Especially, good and bad losses of the toroidal cavity are discussed in detail. Finally, a possibly simple experiment based on current experimental technology is proposed to demonstrate our scheme.

Momchil Minkov, Vincenzo Savona

Abstract The third-order nonlinearity of silicon gives rise to a spontaneous four-wave mixing process in which correlated photon pairs are generated. Sources based on this effect can be used for quantum computation and cryptography, and can in principle be integrated with standard CMOS fabrication technology and components. However, one of the major challenges is the on-chip demultiplexing of the photons, and in particular the filtering of the pump power, which is many orders of magnitude larger than that of the signal and idler photons. Here, we propose a photonic crystal coupled-cavity system designed so that the coupling of the pump mode to the output channel is strictly zero due to symmetry. We further analyze this effect in the presence of fabrication disorder and find that, even then, a pump suppression of close to 40 dB can be achieved in state-of-the-art systems. Due to the small mode volumes and high quality factors, our system is also expected to have a generation efficiency much higher than in standard micro-ring systems. Those two considerations make a strong case for the integration of our proposed design in future on-chip quantum technologies.

Stephanie Bauer, Dongze Wang, Niklas Hoppe +7 more

The capability of realizing quantum photonics implementations on-chip will have a strong impact on several aspects of quantum computation and information processing. The implementation of large scale integrated quantum photonic technologies requires on-chip reconfigurable waveguide circuits as well as single-photon sources and detectors. Many successes have been made in recent years to demonstrate complex quantum circuits in many material platforms. Among all these platforms, the Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) platform is outstanding as it is well developed for classical applications and therefore deploys a high component density, mature fabrication techniques and compatibility with the telecom regime and the complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. However, the lack of on-demand non-classical light sources, directly incorporated in silicon chips, forces the use of nonlinear processes to generate non-classical light states: the probabilistic nature of the emission process sets a limit in the maximally achievable experimental complexity. The use of on-demand sources will have a strong impact on the device’s scalability.