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[PAST EVENT] Colloquium - Eden Figueroa
October 16, 2015
4pm - 5pm
Abstract:
Quantum engineering is the design and testing of devices that can perform the tasks needed to achieve operational quantum information processing and computing. These novel devices have tasks conceptually similar to their well-known classical counterparts, but rather different physical implementation. Successfully interconnecting many of these quantum devices is the key to bring about the first generation of quantum processing machines. In this elementary architecture, some individual devices need to be able to receive, store and retrieve photonic qubits (quantum memories), while other nodes must be geared toward the manipulation of qubits (quantum gates).
In this talk I will present our recent results towards the construction of an elementary quantum processor capable of storing and processing photonic polarization qubits. First, I will show our implementation of room temperature quantum memories [1]. Secondly, I will discuss how we have benchmarked the performance of atomic vapor interfaces as possible quantum gates [2]. Lastly, I will present the interconnection of two light matter interfaces forming a small quantum network [3].
[1] Scientific Reports 5, 7658 (2015).
[2] arXiv:1505.03918 (2015).
[3] PRA A 92, 033846 (2015).
Quantum engineering is the design and testing of devices that can perform the tasks needed to achieve operational quantum information processing and computing. These novel devices have tasks conceptually similar to their well-known classical counterparts, but rather different physical implementation. Successfully interconnecting many of these quantum devices is the key to bring about the first generation of quantum processing machines. In this elementary architecture, some individual devices need to be able to receive, store and retrieve photonic qubits (quantum memories), while other nodes must be geared toward the manipulation of qubits (quantum gates).
In this talk I will present our recent results towards the construction of an elementary quantum processor capable of storing and processing photonic polarization qubits. First, I will show our implementation of room temperature quantum memories [1]. Secondly, I will discuss how we have benchmarked the performance of atomic vapor interfaces as possible quantum gates [2]. Lastly, I will present the interconnection of two light matter interfaces forming a small quantum network [3].
[1] Scientific Reports 5, 7658 (2015).
[2] arXiv:1505.03918 (2015).
[3] PRA A 92, 033846 (2015).