Silicon Quantum Technologies

硅量子技术

• 批准号: CRC-2021-00086
• 负责人: Simmons, Stephanie
• 金额: $ 7.29万
• 依托单位: Simon Fraser University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Canada Research Chairs
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=762366
• 关键词: Silicon; Quantum; Technologies

The potential of quantum technology is fueling intense research worldwide. In 2019 the world observed a 53-qubit standalone quantum computer, eclipsing the computing power of the world's top supercomputer. Yet there remains a chasm between today's state-of-the-art capabilities, across dozens of physical platforms, and useful quantum computation. Networks of quantum computers unleash exponentially more capacity than the sum of their parts, and given expected environmental constraints, will be easier to build than monolithic quantum supercomputers. Eventually, quantum computers will be networked over global quantum telecommunication fibre optics, but there is no consensus on the quantum hardware interface that will unlock this ambitious objective. Rather, there is a fierce effort underway to prototype an ideal quantum interface between long-lived material-based qubits suitable for quantum computing, and telecommunications-band photons suitable for quantum networking. The world's foremost computing and telecommunications technologies are silicon-based, yet it was widely assumed that silicon does not have the requisite quantum interfaces necessary to make an all-silicon quantum internet. Dr. Simmons' recent work disproved this notion by producing and characterizing a silicon matter-telecom photon interface of the highest quality. Next, her team will deploy these matter-photon interfaces into real quantum devices and prove that they can underpin the quantum computation and communication technologies of the future.Specific objectives are to: 1) establish and improve the fidelity of single-qubit operations beyond quantum error-correction thresholds; 2) develop and demonstrate working multi-qubit entangling operations through the photonic interactions that these spin-photon interfaces provide; and 3) pursue new opportunities in the unexplored space of silicon colour centres for quantum information networks.A quantum internet will offer revolutionary capabilities that are otherwise impossible. The spectrum of future applications is likely beyond our current collective imaginations. Dr. Simmons' CRC research program will allow her to train future quantum leaders, build on her achievements, collaborations and infrastructure, and leverage a rare first-mover global competitive advantage and decades of silicon manufacturing R&D. If successful, this work may lead to a broad coalescence of research efforts toward a common quantum hardware dominant design.

量子技术的潜力正在推动全世界的深入研究。 2019年，全世界观测到了一台53量子位的独立量子计算机，其计算能力超越了世界顶级超级计算机。然而，当今跨越数十个物理平台的最先进能力与有用的量子计算之间仍然存在鸿沟。量子计算机网络释放的容量比其各个部分的总和要大得多，并且考虑到预期的环境限制，它将比单片量子超级计算机更容易构建。最终，量子计算机将通过全球量子电信光纤联网，但对于实现这一雄心勃勃的目标的量子硬件接口尚未达成共识。相反，人们正在大力努力在适合量子计算的长寿命材料量子位和适合量子网络的电信波段光子之间建立理想的量子接口原型。世界上最重要的计算和电信技术都是基于硅的，但人们普遍认为硅不具备制造全硅量子互联网所需的量子接口。西蒙斯博士最近的工作通过生产和表征最高质量的硅物质-电信光子界面反驳了这一观点。接下来，她的团队将把这些物质-光子接口部署到真正的量子设备中，并证明它们可以支撑未来的量子计算和通信技术。具体目标是：1）建立和提高超越量子的单量子位运算的保真度纠错阈值； 2）通过这些自旋光子接口提供的光子相互作用开发并演示有效的多量子位纠缠操作； 3）在量子信息网络的硅色心的未开发空间中寻求新的机遇。量子互联网将提供其他方式不可能实现的革命性功能。未来的应用范围很可能超出我们目前的集体想象。 Simmons 博士的 CRC 研究计划将使她能够培训未来的量子领导者，以她的成就、合作和基础设施为基础，并利用罕见的先发全球竞争优势和数十年的硅制造研发经验。如果成功，这项工作可能会导致广泛的研究工作联合起来，实现通用的量子硬件主导设计。