Scalable Engineering of Quantum Optical Information Processing Architectures (SEQUOIA)

Abstract

The goals of this seedling program were to analyze requirements on key devices and algorithms to realize scalable photonic quantum information processing (QIP) systems that can significantly outperform classical / conventional computing methods. Specifically, we investigated resources requirements for linear optical quantum computing to achieve scalable quantum computation and a detailed resource-cost vs. performance study for using all-optical quantum computing to build quantum repeaters for long-range quantum-secured communications (viz., QKD).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 13, 2016
Accession Number
AD1026424

Entities

People

  • Dirk Englund
  • Karl K Berggren
  • Saikat Guha

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Construction
  • Detection
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Optics
  • Photonic Integrated Circuits
  • Quantum Computers
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum Information Science
  • Quantum Memories
  • Semiconductors

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Science - Quantum Key Distribution