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Complexity and Control in Quantum Photonics

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Bristol, UK
  • Gives detailed background to experimental results from ten journal articles
  • Contributes to areas as diverse as time-correlated single photon counting, integrated photonics, quantum simulation, Boson sampling, quantum walks, and wave-particle duality
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Introduction and Essential Physics

    • Peter Shadbolt
    Pages 1-62
  3. A Reconfigurable Two-Qubit Chip

    • Peter Shadbolt
    Pages 63-100
  4. A Quantum Delayed-Choice Experiment

    • Peter Shadbolt
    Pages 101-116
  5. Quantum Chemistry on a Photonic Chip

    • Peter Shadbolt
    Pages 137-159
  6. Increased Complexity

    • Peter Shadbolt
    Pages 161-195
  7. Discussion

    • Peter Shadbolt
    Pages 197-198
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 199-208

About this book

This work explores the scope and flexibility afforded by integrated quantum photonics, both in terms of practical problem-solving, and for the pursuit of fundamental science. The author demonstrates and fully characterizes a two-qubit quantum photonic chip, capable of arbitrary two-qubit state preparation. Making use of the unprecedented degree of reconfigurability afforded by this device, a novel variation on Wheeler’s delayed choice experiment is implemented, and a new technique to obtain nonlocal statistics without a shared reference frame is tested. Also presented is a new algorithm for quantum chemistry, simulating the helium hydride ion. Finally, multiphoton quantum interference in a large Hilbert space is demonstrated, and its implications for computational complexity are examined.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    Peter Shadbolt

About the author

Dr. Peter Shadbolt is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Controlled Quantum Dynamics at Imperial College, London. He completed his PhD in January 2014 at the University of Bristol, where he worked on experimental optical quantum computing using waveguides. Peter’s current research focuses on large-scale architectures for linear-optical quantum computing, as well as potential applications including quantum chemistry and machine learning.

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