EurekAlert July 16, 2019 A team of researchers in the US (Purdue University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory) implemented qudit gate with a set of standard off-the-shelf equipment used daily in the optical communication industry. Qudits exist in multiple states, such as 0 and 1 and 2. More states mean that more data can be encoded and processed. They achieved more entanglement with fewer photons by encoding one qudit in the time domain and the other in the frequency domain of each of the two photons. They built a gate using the two qudits encoded in each photon, for a total […]
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Multi-functional quantum bits for future computers
Eurekalert October 29, 2018 Researchers in Germany are working on Scalable Rare Earth Ion Quantum Computing Nodes (SQUARE) within the framework of the Quantum Technology Flagship funded by the European Commission. SQUARE is aimed at establishing rare earth ions that can be addressed separately as basic building blocks for scalable quantum technologies. In particular, it is planned to demonstrate functional elements of a multi-qubit quantum register that can be read out optically and to realize building blocks of a quantum network. Their work was presented at a recent conference in Germany… read more.