Photonic Chips for Quantum Information Processing
Quantum computers can tackle fundamentally different problems than classical, so-called Turing-complete systems (such as supercomputers or smartphones). Why is this so, and why is it important? Quantum computing enables new computational principles that will render most classical cryptography insecure once a sufficiently good quantum computer has been built. Quantum photonics offers a way out in the form of quantum communication. Recent breakthroughs in optical “quantum advantage” experiments are discussed. Integrated photonic chips play an increasingly important role in this field and are indispensable for the development of scalable, universal quantum computers.
Speaker: Pepijn Pinkse, University of Twente