Quantum phononic-photonic-spin networking devices**

量子信息处理和通信有望解锁解决以前棘手问题的能力，并提供无条件安全的信息共享。创建一个允许这些功能相结合的硬件平台，例如允许量子信息处理设备联网并使用光进行通信，是许多领先的学术和工业研究团队的主要目标。这也是加拿大准备在解决这一挑战方面发挥重要作用的挑战，这要归功于其强大的光子产业和新生的商业量子计算生态系统。该项目通过创建量子信息处理设备来解决这个问题，该设备结合了联合收割机电子，光学和机械量子系统，并利用它们最理想的特性：用于片外网络的光，用于信息存储的电子自旋，以及用于连接片上自旋的机械声子。该项目建立在申请人最近在创建“自旋光学机械”设备方面的突破之上。这些器件处于纳米光子学研究的最前沿，该领域开发纳米纤维和计算建模技术，以构建增强光与其他量子系统之间耦合的系统。为了实现这一及时的研究，该项目汇集了高度集成的纳米光子电路研究的领导者，量子纳米光子学和网络研究的领导者，以及在纳米光子学方面具有卓越专业知识的工业合作伙伴。这一合作伙伴关系将使具有重要战略意义的多物理场功能被添加到行业合作伙伴的世界领先的光子模拟工具中，并将提供一个平台，通过高度新颖的实验来展示这些工具的功能。该项目建立在最近对最先进的基础设施的重大投资（两个数百万的CFI奖项）的基础上，并将使加拿大成为竞争激烈和快速增长的量子技术发展领域的领导者。

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.