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Optical Quantum Memory Applications in Quantum Communication

September 6, 2019
Author(s)
Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma
… Optical quantum memory is a device that can store the quantum state of photons and retrieve it with high fidelity on demand. Many approaches to quantum memory have been proposed and demonstrated. Quantum … quantum memory, quantum communication, quantum network …

Confidence-Interval Construction with Non-I.I.D. Spot-Checking Trials & its Application in Quantum Information

June 22, 2023
Author(s)
Emanuel Knill, Akshay Seshadri, Yanbao Zhang
… random variables and can be applied for certifying ongoing quantum information tasks … Quantum 2.0 2023 … Quantum information, hypothesis testing, parameter estimation … Optica Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition, Quantum 2.0 2023 … with Non-I.I.D. Spot-Checking Trials & its Application in Quantum Information …

Progress on a portable polarization-entangled photon source & receiver for quantum network metrology

June 13, 2022
Author(s)
Anouar Rahmouni, Thomas Gerrits, Oliver T. Slattery
… portable/rack-mounted, robust, and reliable tools for a quantum network testbed. We report our progress on the … Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition. … polarization-entangled photon source, quantum network metrology … OSA Quantum 2.0 Conference … polarization-entangled photon source & receiver for quantum network metrology …

Faster quantum algorithm to simulate Fermionic quantum field theory

July 1, 2018
Author(s)
Ali Hamed Moosavian, Stephen P. Jordan
… In quantum algorithms discovered so far for simulating scattering processes in quantum field theories, state preparation is the slowest … particle states to use in simulation of Fermionic Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on a quantum computer, which is … Quantum Information & Computation …

Crystalline Quantum Circuits

July 31, 2023
Author(s)
Grace Sommers, David Huse, Michael Gullans
… Random quantum circuits continue to inspire a wide range of applications in quantum information science, while remaining analytically … with fractal dynamics. We use the formalism of Clifford quantum cellular automata to describe operator spreading, … PRX Quantum …

Quantum Algorithms for Fermionic Quantum Field Theories

April 28, 2014
Author(s)
Stephen P. Jordan, Keith S. Lee, John Preskill
… previous work on scalar field theories, we develop a quantum algorithm to compute relativistic scattering … Thus, it constitutes further progress towards an efficient quantum algorithm for simulating the Standard Model of … Quantum Information & Computation … quantum algorithm, quantum field theory, fermion …

A Testbed for Quantum Communication and Quantum Networks

May 13, 2019
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Abdella Battou, Xiao Tang, Oliver T. Slattery
… The development of Quantum Networks is underway with significant acceleration in in recent years. Meanwhile. quantum scale devices and components such as single photon … Therefore, there is a need to test new and existing quantum devices, protocols and alternative network …

The Quantum Communications and Networking Project at the Information Technology Laboratory of NIST

February 10, 2022
Author(s)
Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, Thomas Gerrits, Anouar Rahmouni, Sumit Bhushan
… Research in the Quantum Communications and Networking Project in NIST's … Technology Laboratory (ITL) focuses on developing quantum devices and studying them for use in quantum communications and quantum networking applications. … quantum communications, quantum repeater, quantum network …

Efficient Quantum State Transfer in an Engineered Chain of Quantum Bits

September 15, 2015
Author(s)
Emanuel Knill, Michael Vissers, David P. Pappas, Martin Sandberg
… Here we present a method of performing quantum state transfer in a chain of superconducting quantum bits. Our protocol is based on the engineerability of the energy levels of superconducting quantum systems. This, together with the tunability of the … Quantum Information Processing …

Hybrid quantum edge computing network

October 4, 2022
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Leah Ding
… Edge computing network and quantum network are two emerging technologies in current … are deployed at the network edge close to data sources. Quantum network supports distributed quantum computing, which could provide exponentially … SPIE Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging XX …

Towards a quantum repeater using a surface-trap-integrated microcavity and trapped ions

November 18, 2025
Author(s)
Lindsay Sonderhouse, Margaret Bruff, Kaitlyn David, Daniel Slichter, Dietrich Leibfried
… are a leading candidate for the "stationary qubits" of a quantum network. However, thus far remote entanglement rates … an architecture for a long-range, high-entanglement-rate quantum repeater. Our strategy involves using a micromirror … SPIE Photonics West/Quantum West …

Advanced technologies for quantum photonic devices based on epitaxial quantum dots

October 11, 2019
Author(s)
Tian M. Zhao, Yan Chen, Yu Ying, Li Qing, Marcelo I. Davanco, Jin Liu
… Photonic quantum technology is creating breakthroughs in both fundamental quantum science and applications such as quantum communication, computation and sensing. Regarded as … Advanced Quantum Technologies … Quantum Dots, Single-Photon Sources … Advanced technologies for quantum photonic devices based on epitaxial quantum dots …

Fault-tolerant hyperbolic Floquet quantum error correcting codes

September 5, 2025
Author(s)
Ali Fahimniya, Hossein Dehghani, Kishor Bharti, Sheryl Mathew, Alicia Kollar, Alexey Gorshkov, Michael Gullans
… A central goal in quantum error correction is to reduce the overhead of fault-tolerant quantum computing by increasing noise thresholds and reducing … this goal based on a family of dynamically generated quantum error correcting codes that we call "hyperbolic …

Graphical Methods in Device-Independent Quantum Cryptography

May 27, 2019
Author(s)
Spencer J. Breiner, Carl A. Miller, Neil J. Ross
… a framework for providing graphical security proofs for quantum cryptography using the methods of categorical quantum mechanics. We are optimistic that this approach will make some of the highly complex proofs in quantum cryptography more accessible, facilitate the …

Versatile quantum-enabled telecom receiver

March 2, 2023
Author(s)
FNU Nur Fajar Rizqi Annafianto, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Ivan Burenkov, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov
… We experimentally demonstrate a quantum-measurement-based receiver for a range of modulation … as a figure of merit and experimentally confirm that the quantum-inspired hybrid frequency/phase encoding has the … AVS Quantum Science … Quantum receiver, Quantum communication, Quantum network …

Compressed gate characterization for quantum devices with time-correlated noise

July 22, 2023
Author(s)
Michael Gullans, Miguel Caranti, Adam Mills, Jason Petta
… As quantum devices make steady progress towards intermediate scale and fault-tolerant quantum computing, it is essential to develop rigorous and … known sources of noise in each architecture. Most existing quantum characterization protocols such as gate-set … PRX Quantum …

Fault-Tolerant Compiling of Classically Hard Instantaneous Quantum Polynomial Circuits on Hypercubes

May 28, 2025
Author(s)
Dominik Hangleiter, Marcin Kalinowkski, Dolev Bluvstein, Madelyn Cain, Nishad Maskara, Xun Gao, Aleksander Kubica, Mikhail Lukin, Michael Gullans
… Quantum computational advantage is challenging to maintain … asymptotically in the presence of noise. Fault-tolerant quantum computing provides a route to noiseless computations, … algorithms. Here, we develop a fault-tolerant approach to quantum advantage that is both tailored to the quantum …

Linear optics quantum computation

April 30, 2004
Author(s)
Emanuel H. Knill
… is a high level review of technical and policy issues in quantum information. … Linear optics quantum computation … quantum communications, quantum computing, quantum information … Linear optics quantum computation …

Practical quantum-enhanced receivers for classical communication

April 20, 2021
Author(s)
Ivan Burenkov, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Sergey Polyakov
… growth of physical resources for communication is to use quantum, rather than classical measurement at the receiver. Quantum measurement improves the energy efficiency of optical … limit. In this review article, the authors focus on quantum receivers that can be practically implemented at the …

Quantum Gates Using Motional States in an Optical Lattice

June 1, 2001
Author(s)
E Charron, Eite Tiesinga, F H. Mies, Carl J. Williams
… We Study an implementation of a two-qubit universal quantum gate with neutral 87Rb atoms trapped in a far-detuned … Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 3 … cold atoms, motional states, optical lattice, universal quantum gate … Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing …

Quantum Lego Expansion Pack: Enumerators from Tensor Networks

July 22, 2024
Author(s)
ChunJun Cao, Michael Gullans, Brad Lackey, Zitao Wang
… We provide the first tensor network method for computing quantum weight enumerator polynomials in the most general form. As a corollary, if a quantum code has a known tensor network construction of its … enumerators. In particular, for any code built from the quantum lego method, we use enumerators to construct its …

Portable polarization-entangled photon source & receiver toolset for quantum network metrology

October 4, 2022
Author(s)
Anouar Rahmouni, Thomas Gerrits, Paulina Kuo, Dileep Reddy, Lijun Ma, Xiao Tang, Oliver T. Slattery
… A quantum network will consist of many physically separated nodes connected by quantum communication channels that distribute entanglement … mechanisms for the generation, routing, and measurement of quantum states to fulfill a communication protocol between … Quantum Network Metrology …

BQP-completeness of Scattering in Scalar Quantum Field Theory

September 1, 2014
Author(s)
Stephen P. Jordan, Keith S. Lee, John Preskill
… Recent work has shown that quantum computers can in polynomial time compute scattering probabilities in massive quantum field theories. One can translate this task into a … any problem that can be solved in polynomial time by a quantum computer. Hence, these scattering probabilities …

Ray-based framework for state identification in quantum dot devices

June 7, 2021
Author(s)
Justyna Zwolak, Thomas McJunkin, Sandesh Kalantre, Samuel Neyens, Evan MacQuarrie, Mark A. Eriksson, Jacob Taylor
… Quantum dots (QDs) defined with electrostatic gates are a leading platform for a scalable quantum computing implementation. However, with increasing … learning techniques for nontraditional measurements in quantum systems with high-dimensional parameter spaces and …

Suppressing communication errors using quantum-enabled forward error correction

September 28, 2023
Author(s)
Ivan Burenkov, FNU Nur Fajar Rizqi Annafianto, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov
… but it never was applied in conjugation with the quantum measurement at the receiver. Here, we develop and … protocols in classical communication link enhanced by quantum measurements' confidences [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, … $10^-9}$, this approach enables reliable utilization of quantum receivers for ultra-low power optical communications, …
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