High-speed thin-film lithium niobate quantum processor driven by a solid-state quantum emitter
Patrik I. Sund, Emma Lomonte, Stefano Paesani, Ying Wang, Jacques Carolan, Nikolai Bart, Andreas D. Wieck, Arne Ludwig, Leonardo Midolo, Wolfram H. P. Pernice, Peter Lodahl, Francesco Lenzini
Abstract
Scalable photonic quantum computing architectures pose stringent requirements on photonic processing devices. The needs for low-loss high-speed reconfigurable circuits and near-deterministic resource state generators are some of the most challenging requirements. Here, we develop an integrated photonic platform based on thin-film lithium niobate and interface it with deterministic solid-state single-photon sources based on quantum dots in nanophotonic waveguides. The generated photons are processed with low-loss circuits programmable at speeds of several gigahertz. We realize a variety of key photonic quantum information processing functionalities with the high-speed circuits, including on-chip quantum interference, photon demultiplexing, and reprogrammability of a four-mode universal photonic circuit. These results show a promising path forward for scalable photonic quantum technologies by merging integrated photonics with solid-state deterministic photon sources in a heterogeneous approach to scaling up.