Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Ground state solver on a silicon quantum photonic chip

Raffaele Santagati, Jianwei Wang, Stefano Paesani, Antonio A. Gentile, Damien Bonneau, Joshua W. Silverstone, Sam Morley-Short, Xueqian Zhou, Peter Shadbolt, Nathan Wiebe, Shigehito Miki, Tsuyoshi Yamashita, Mikio Fujiwara, Masahide Sasaki, Hirotaka Terai, Michael G. Tanner, Chandra M. Natarajan, Robert H. Hadfield, David P. Tew, Jeremy L. O’Brien, Mark G. Thompson

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations

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Abstract

We present a new, scalable protocol for solving the eigenvalue problem requiring the measurement of only one qubit. We implement this protocol on a silicon quantum photonic device embedding arbitrary non-compiled controlled unitary operations.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2016.fth4c.3

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