A Chip-scale Quantum Information Processor Using Atomic Ions and Photonic Circuits

使用原子离子和光子电路的芯片级量子信息处理器

• 批准号: 1408495
• 负责人: Rajeev Ram
• 金额: $ 36万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-15 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1408495&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Chip; scale; Quantum; Information; Processor

Abstract Title: A Chip-scale Quantum Information Processor Using Atomic Ions and Photonic CircuitsDriven by the intractability of classical simulation of complex quantum systems, the execution of algorithms pertaining to encryption and certain search problems, quantum state engineering has proven a fruitful field in recent years. Atomic ions are a leading approach to development of quantum information processors. Typically experiments have been limited to a few ions because of the reliance on optical beams propagating in free space for control and readout of the ions. Difficulties with the usual optics approach pose formidable barriers to the useful application of the wealth of promising basic ideas that have been developed in recent years. This work seeks to devise nanophotonic devices and systems in which light is controlled on chip in a fashion allowing thousands of independent optical beams, which can be integrated with electrode structures that confine the ions above the chip. The work would lead to optical control and readout of individual ions at dramatically larger scales than possible with current technology; additionally, integration as proposed would bring certain performance advantages, including lower power requirements on the laser beams due to tighter focusing on individual ions, and reduced noise due to stability of the beams' phase and location with respect to ions. The approach would advance basic capabilities in the field of integrated photonics, and bring closer the goals of arbitrary quantum state manipulation in atomic systems large enough to allow exploration of physics, as well as useful computations, beyond what can be done on current classical computers. Realizing the systems proposed requires developments in a variety of basic photonic devices, and approaches to systems implementations. Ions of interest have transitions spanning the visible spectrum (for 88Sr+, 422-1097 nm), and the impact of the approach is greatest if all wavelengths are guided with low loss in the same dielectric layer. Grating couplers will be developed that convert light propagating in single-mode dielectric waveguides into focused beams propagating towards the ions. Electro-optic devices using integrated non-linear materials as the active core material for high-extinction (40 dB) modulation of beams used for qubit control and readout will be designed and fabricated as well. In addition, we will pursue a post-processing technique whereby devices such as these could be created in chips made in standard CMOS foundries; this would open the possibility for systems bringing together beam-forming optics, modulators and avalanche photodetectors together with trap electrodes and control electronics for control of trapped ion systems with unprecedented scale. A critical advantage of CMOS foundry-made chips as a platform for science and engineering research is the intrinsic reproducibility and ease of dissemination for the experimental devices. For the first time, students of atomic physics and visible photonics will be able to leverage the multi-billion dollar infrastructure of CMOS. By drawing deeply on ideas both in integrated photonics and atomic physics, this work additionally creates new opportunities for interdisciplinary education and collaboration for the undergraduates, graduate students and researchers involved; and in addition to the capabilities for trapped ion systems offered by the work proposed here, we expect cross-fertilization between the two areas will make fertile ground for unforeseen ideas.

摘要题目：利用原子离子和光子电路的芯片级量子信息处理器由于复杂量子系统的经典模拟的难解性、与加密和某些搜索问题有关的算法的执行，量子态工程近年来被证明是一个富有成果的领域。原子离子是开发量子信息处理器的主要方法。由于依赖于在自由空间中传播的光束来控制和读出离子，通常实验仅限于几个离子。常规光学方法的困难对近年来发展起来的大量有前途的基本思想的有效应用构成了巨大的障碍。这项工作旨在设计纳米光子器件和系统，其中光在芯片上以允许数千个独立光束的方式进行控制，这些光束可以与电极结构集成，将离子限制在芯片上方。这项工作将导致光学控制和读出单个离子的规模比目前的技术要大得多；此外，所提出的集成将带来一定的性能优势，包括由于更紧密地聚焦于单个离子而降低了对激光束的功率要求，并且由于光束的相位和位置相对于离子的稳定性而降低了噪声。这种方法将提高集成光子学领域的基本能力，并使在原子系统中任意量子态操纵的目标更接近，这些目标足够大，可以进行物理探索，以及有用的计算，超出当前经典计算机所能做的。实现所提出的系统需要开发各种基本光子器件和系统实现方法。感兴趣的离子具有跨越可见光谱的跃迁（对于88Sr+， 422-1097 nm），如果在同一介电层中以低损耗引导所有波长，则该方法的影响最大。将开发光栅耦合器，将在单模介质波导中传播的光转换成向离子传播的聚焦光束。采用集成非线性材料作为主源材料的电光器件，用于量子比特控制和读出光束的高消光（40 dB）调制。此外，我们将追求后处理技术，使这些设备可以在标准CMOS代工厂制造的芯片中创建；这将为将光束形成光学、调制器和雪崩光电探测器与陷阱电极和控制电子设备结合在一起的系统提供可能性，从而以前所未有的规模控制陷阱离子系统。CMOS晶圆代工芯片作为科学和工程研究平台的一个关键优势是实验器件固有的可重复性和易于传播。第一次，原子物理和可见光子学的学生将能够利用数十亿美元的CMOS基础设施。通过深入吸收集成光子学和原子物理学的思想，这项工作为本科生、研究生和研究人员的跨学科教育和合作创造了新的机会；除了这里提出的工作提供的捕获离子系统的能力之外，我们期望这两个领域之间的交叉施肥将为不可预见的想法提供肥沃的土壤。