Quantum Photonics Renaissance: from Quantum Clouds to Boson Sampling and Quantum Simulation
Speaker: Prof. Philip Walther, University of Vienna
Department: Electrical Engineering
Location: Bowen Auditorium
Date/Time: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The advantages of the photons makes optical quantum system ideally suited for a variety of applications in quantum information processing. Here I will review results for the realization of secure quantum cloud computing, where quantum information is securely communicated and computed. Related to measurement-based quantum computing I will also briefly discuss new experimental insights into the verification of quantum computing as well as the experimental comparison of different quantum resources. Finally, I will briefly review recent photonic quantum simulation experiments of four frustrated spins systems and present new results on intermediate quantum computing utilizing the Bosonic nature of photons. As outlook I will discuss the current status of new quantum technology for improving the scalability of photonic quantum systems by using integrated circuits, superconducting single-photon detectors and tailored light-matter interactions.