Quantum Information Science

Abstract

This is the final report for the AFRL/RI in-house project Quantum Information Science. Under this project we constructed a six qubit (quantum bit) capable photon-based experimental testbed for the development of photon-based quantum gates and circuits and performed experimental and theoretical investigations of quantum computation. These investigations included: theoretical/numerical simulation: (1) a hybrid coarse/fine parallel simulation of Grover's quantum search algorithm; (2) the development of a variant of Grover's algorithm that explicitly searches on one component of a database; (3) the design of quantum optical gates by means of volume holography in photo-thermal refractive glass, and (4) an investigation of the advantage of utilizing cluster states for a one-way quantum computational paradigm; experimental: (5) the construction and validation of a group velocity matched temporal compensator crystal assembly to increase the usable range of entangled photon sources, and (6) the development and characterization of a new multipli-entangled photon source that increased the usable number of photon pairs by a factor of six.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA556971

Entities

People

  • Michael L. Fanto
  • Paul M. Alsing

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Lasers
  • Optical Materials
  • Parallel Computing
  • Quantum Algorithms
  • Quantum Bits
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum Information Science
  • Quantum Memories
  • Single Crystals
  • Waveplates

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing