Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Sean D Barrett

William John Munro

Raymond G Beausoleil

Timothy Paul Spiller

Kae Nemoto

Richard Stanley Williams

Philip John Kuekes

Pieter Kok

Timothy P Spillar

A photonic interconnect method avoids high capacitance electric interconnects by using optical signals to communicate data between devices. The method can provide massively parallel information output by mapping logical addresses to frequency bands, so that modulation of a selected frequency band can encode information for a specific location corresponding to the logical address. Wavelength-specific directional couplers, modulators, and detectors, which can be fabricated at defects in a photonic bandgap crystal, can be employed for the photonic interconnect method. The interconnect method can be used for both classical and quantum information processing.

Photonic interconnect method

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods for generating an entangled state of qubits. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for preparing an entangled state of qubits comprises providing a probe and N non-interacting qubits, each qubit comprises a linear superposition of two basis states. The probe is transmitted into an interaction region that separately couples the probe to each of the qubits and produces a number of different probes. A linear superposition of states is output from the interaction region, each state in the linear superposition of states comprises a tensor product of entangled basis states and one of the different probes. The linear superposition of states is projected into one of the entangled states by measuring the state of the probe.

Methods for preparing entangled quantum states

A photonic interconnect system avoids high capacitance electric interconnects by using optical signals to communicate data between devices. The system can provide massively parallel information output by mapping logical addresses to frequency bands, so that modulation of a selected frequency band can encode information for a specific location corresponding to the logical address. Wavelength-specific directional couplers, modulators, and detectors for the photonic interconnect system can be efficiently fabricated at defects in a photonic bandgap crystal. The interconnect system can be used for both classical and quantum information processing.

Photonic interconnect system

The states of matter system () having only ones basis state that couples to an excited state can be entangled using measurements of photons during transitions from the excited state. High efficiency of entanglement operation can be achieved by repeating the measurements after performing bit flips on the matter systems (). High efficiency of entanglement operation can be achieved using non-absorbing parity measurements on the emitted photons so that measured photons can be subsequently manipulated and measured to near-deterministically produce entangled states. Such entanglement operations can be employed to construct cluster states suitable for simulating arbitrary logic networks.

Entanglement processes and system

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods for determining a phase shift acquired by an entangled N-qubit system represented by a NOON state. In one embodiment, a probe electromagnetic field is coupled with each qubit system. The phase shift acquired by the qubit systems is transferred to the probe electromagnetic field by transforming each qubit-system state into a linear superposition of qubit basis states. An intensity measurement is performed on the probe electromagnetic field in order to obtain a corresponding measurement result. A counter associated with a measurement-result interval is incremented, based on the measurement result falling within the measurement-result interval. A frequency distribution is produced by normalizing the counter associated with each measurement-result interval for a number of trials. The phase shift is determined by fitting a probability distribution associated with the probe electromagnetic field to the frequency distribution as a function of the phase shift.

Methods for determining relative phase differences in entangled quantum states

A photonic interconnect system avoids high capacitance electric interconnects by using optical signals to communicate data between devices. The system can provide massively parallel information output by mapping logical addresses to frequency bands, so that modulation of a selected frequency band can encode information for a specific location corresponding to the logical address. Wavelength-specific directional couplers, modulators, and detectors for the photonic interconnect system can be efficiently fabricated at defects in a photonic bandgap crystal.

Nonlinear electromagnetic elements can efficiently implement quantum information processing tasks such as controlled phase shifts, non-demolition state detection, quantum subspace projections, non-demolition Bell state analysis, heralded state preparation, quantum non-demolition encoding, and fundamental quantum gate operations. Direct use of electromagnetic non-linearity can amplify small phase shifts and use feed forward systems in a near deterministic manner with high operating efficiency. Measurements using homodyne detectors can cause near deterministic projection of input states on a Hilbert subspace identified by the measurement results. Feed forward operation can then alter the projected state if desired to achieve a desired output state with near 100% efficiency.

Nonlinear electromagnetic quantum information processing

A device capable of efficiently detecting a single-photon signal preserves a photon characteristic such as polarization or angular momentum. The device can include a beam splitter that splits an input photon state into modes that are distinguished by states of a characteristic of signal photons in the input photon state, a non-destructive measurement system capable of measuring a total number of photons in the modes without identifying a photon number for any individual one of the modes; and a beam combiner positioned to combine the modes after output from the non-destructive detection system.

Non-demolition photon detector that preserves input state characteristics

A device capable of efficiently detecting a single-photon signal includes a matter system, sources of a first beam and a second beam, and a measurement system. The matter system has a first energy level and a second energy level such that a signal photon couples to a transition between the first energy level and the second energy level. The first beam contains photons that couple to a transition between the second energy level and a third energy level of the matter system, and the second beam contains photons that couple to a transition between the third energy level and a fourth energy level of the matter system. The measurement system measures a change in the first or second beam to detect the absence, the presence, or the number of the photons in the signal.

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