One of the world's largest programmable multi-arm interferometers for quantum computing has been developed in Russia using femtosecond laser printing technology. The chip has already passed testing at the Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT) of the Faculty of Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
According to Sergey Kulik, Head of the Laboratory of Quantum Engineering of Light at South Ural State University (SUSU) and Scientific Director of the CQT MSU, in an interview with TASS news agency, this development is less bulky than some modern quantum computing platforms. And, until a Russian quantum computer is created, it will perform other tasks for scientists.
The CQT MSU has created a large-scale eight-channel programmable interferometer, which currently has no analogues in the world in terms of its characteristics. The result of the work was recently published in the international journal Photonics Research. The Laboratory of Quantum Engineering of Light operates at SUSU as part of a mega-grant. There, such chips will be used by scientists to perform quantum computations.
These calculations are needed to solve scientific and industrial problems.
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