VLSI Quantum Graph Photonics

Zuntao Fu, Jie Bao, Tanumoy Pramanik, Jun Mao, Y. Chi, Yue Qiang Cao, C. Zhai, Y. Mao, Tianxiang Dai, Xun Chen, X. Jia, L. Zhao, Yun Zheng, Bo Tang, Zibiao Li, J. Luo, Wenzhong Wang, Yan Yang, Yingying Peng, Dongjian Liu, Daoxin Dai A, Qiongyi He, Alif Laila Muthali, Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, Caterina Vigliar, Stefano Paesani, H. Hou, Raffaele Santagati, Joshua W. Silverstone, Anthony Laing, Mark G. Thompson, Jeremy L. O’Brien, Yunhong Ding, Qihuang Gong, Jianwei Wang

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations

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Abstract

We report a graph-based very-large-scale-integrated silicon-photonic quantum chip. Having the correspondence between quantum chip and graph theory, we demonstrate the generation of multiphoton multidimensional entanglement and determination of modulussquared Hafnian (Permanent) of graph’s adjacency matrices.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_fs.2023.fth5b.4

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