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ESE Spring Seminar – “Towards quantum interconnects: entangling microwave and optical photonic qubits”

February 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Date: February 25, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Category: SeminarColloquium
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    Electrical and Systems Engineering
    Phone: 215-898-6823
    Venue
    Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street
    Philadelphia
    PA 19104
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    Modern computing and communication technologies, such as supercomputers and the internet, are based on optically-linked networks of information processors operating at microwave frequencies. An analogous architecture has been proposed for quantum networks using optical photons to distribute entanglement between remote superconducting quantum processors. Here I will discuss our recent demonstration of a chip-scale source of entangled optical and microwave photonic qubits – an essential milestone towards realizing such an architecture. Our device platform integrates a piezo-optomechanical transducer with a superconducting resonator that is robust under optical illumination. We drive a photon-pair generation process and employ a dual-rail encoding to prepare entangled states of microwave and optical photons. This entanglement source can directly interface telecom wavelength time-bin qubits and GHz frequency superconducting qubits; two well-established platforms for quantum communication and computation, respectively.