Quantum phononic-photonic-spin networking devices

量子声子-光子-自旋网络设备

• 批准号: 521536-2018
• 负责人: Barclay, Paul
• 金额: $ 12.93万
• 依托单位: University of Calgary
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Strategic Projects - Group
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=694035
• 关键词: Quantum; phononic; photonic; spin; networking

Quantum information processing and communication promise to unlock the ability to solve previously intractable problems and provide unconditionally secure information sharing. Creating a hardware platform that allows these capabilities to be combined, e.g. allows for quantum information processing devices to be networked and communicate using light, is a major goal for many leading academic and industrial research teams. It is also a challenge that Canada is poised to play a large role in solving, thanks to its strong photonics industry and nascent commercial quantum computing ecosystem. This project tackles this problem by creating quantum information processing devices that combine electronic, optical, and mechanical quantum systems and exploits their most desirable properties: light for off-chip networking, electronic spins for information storage, and mechanical phonons for connecting spins on-chip. This project builds on recent breakthroughs by the applicants in creating "spin-optomechanical" devices. These devices are at the forefront of nanophotonics research, a field that develops nanofabrication and computational modeling techniques to build systems that enhance the coupling between light and other quantum systems. To realize this timely research, this project brings together leaders in highly integrated nanophotonic circuit research, leaders in quantum nanophotonics and networking research, and an industrial partner with unsurpassed expertise in nanophotonics. This partnership will allow strategically important multiphysics functionality to be added to the industry partner's world leading photonic simulation tools, and will provide a platform to demonstrate the power of these tools through highly novel experiments. This project builds on major recent investment in state-of-the-art infrastructure (two multimillion CFI awards), and will position Canada as a leader within a highly competitive and rapidly growing area of quantum technology development.

量子信息处理和通信承诺可以解锁解决以前棘手的问题并提供无条件安全的信息共享的能力。创建一个可以将这些功能组合在一起的硬件平台，例如允许使用光线进行联网和通信的量子信息处理设备，这是许多领先的学术和工业研究团队的主要目标。由于其强大的光子学行业和新生的商业量子计算生态系统，加拿大准备在解决方案中发挥重要作用也是一个挑战。该项目通过创建结合电子，光学和机械量子系统的量子信息处理设备来解决此问题，并利用其最理想的属性：外芯片网络的光，用于信息存储的电子旋转以及用于连接芯片旋转的机械声子。该项目建立在申请人创建“自旋 - 机械”设备方面的最新突破之上。这些设备位于纳米光学研究的最前沿，该领域开发了纳米制作和计算建模技术，以构建系统，从而增强光和其他量子系统之间的耦合。为了实现这项及时的研究，该项目将高度集成的纳米光子电路研究，量子纳米光学和网络研究的领导者以及具有无与伦比的纳米光子学专业知识的工业合作伙伴汇集了领导者。这种伙伴关系将允许具有战略上重要的多物理功能添加到行业合作伙伴的世界领先的光子模拟工具中，并将通过高新颖的实验提供一个平台来展示这些工具的力量。该项目基于最近对最先进的基础设施（两个数百万CFI奖项）的重大投资，并将将加拿大作为量子技术开发的高度竞争和快速增长的领域中的领导者。