Why I am optimistic about the silicon-photonic route to quantum computing

• Published in: APL photonics Vol. 2; no. 3; pp. 030901 - 030901-19
• Main Author: Rudolph, Terry
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: AIP Publishing LLC 01.03.2017

This is a short overview explaining how building a large-scale, silicon-photonic quantum computer has been reduced to the creation of good sources of 3-photon entangled states (and may simplify further). Given such sources, each photon needs to pass through a small, constant, number of components, i...