Universal linear optics
Jacques Carolan,Chris Harrold,Chris Sparrow,Chris Sparrow,Enrique Martin-Lopez,Nicholas Russell,Joshua W. Silverstone,Peter Shadbolt,Nobuyuki Matsuda,Manabu Oguma,Mikitaka Itoh,Graham D. Marshall,Mark G. Thompson,Jonathan C. F. Matthews,Toshikazu Hashimoto,Jeremy L. O'Brien,Anthony Laing +16 more
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In this paper, a sixmode universal system consisting of a cascade of 15 Mach-Zehnder interferometers with 30 thermo-optic phase shifters integrated into a single photonic chip was demonstrated.Abstract:
Linear optics underpins fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and quantum technologies. We demonstrate a single reprogrammable optical circuit that is sufficient to implement all possible linear optical protocols up to the size of that circuit. Our six-mode universal system consists of a cascade of 15 Mach-Zehnder interferometers with 30 thermo-optic phase shifters integrated into a single photonic chip that is electrically and optically interfaced for arbitrary setting of all phase shifters, input of up to six photons, and their measurement with a 12-single-photon detector system. We programmed this system to implement heralded quantum logic and entangling gates, boson sampling with verification tests, and six-dimensional complex Hadamards. We implemented 100 Haar random unitaries with an average fidelity of 0.999 ± 0.001. Our system can be rapidly reprogrammed to implement these and any other linear optical protocol, pointing the way to applications across fundamental science and quantum technologies.read more
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