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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

A universal two-qubit photonic quantum processor

Xiaogang Qiang, Xiaoqi Zhou, Jianwei Wang, Callum M. Wilkes, T. Loke, Sean O’Gara, Laurent Kling, Graham D. Marshall, Raffaele Santagati, Jingbo B. Wang, Jeremy L. O’Brien, Mark G. Thompson, Jonathan C. F. Matthews

Published Jan 1, 2018• 1 citation
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Abstract

We report a universal two-qubit silicon photonic quantum processor, able to initialise, operate and analyze arbitrary two-qubit states and processes applications in quantum information processing.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2018.fm1g.1

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