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Frontiers in Optics

Quantum photonics for computation and simulation

Jacob M. Taylor

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

I will discuss recent advances towards implementation of nonlinear photonic devices for quantum information processing and quantum simulation of topological phases of matter, using approaches from circuit QED and silicon-on-insulator technologies.
DOI
10.1364/ls.2012.lm3j.2

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