Quantum networks with chiral light--matter interaction in waveguides

TL;DR

This paper presents a scalable quantum network architecture using on-chip photonic circuits with chiral light--matter interactions, enabling high-fidelity intra- and inter-node entanglement and quantum computation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel on-chip photonic circuit design that achieves loss-tolerant two-qubit measurements and entanglement generation without reconfiguration.

Findings

Achieves heralded two-qubit gate fidelities around 0.998.

Enables universal quantum computation with scalable on-chip circuits.

Utilizes chiral light--matter interaction for efficient intra- and inter-node operations.

Abstract

We propose a scalable architecture for a quantum network based on a simple on-chip photonic circuit that performs loss-tolerant two-qubit measurements. The circuit consists of two quantum emitters positioned in the arms of an on-chip Mach-Zehnder interferometer composed of waveguides with chiral light--matter interfaces. The efficient chiral light--matter interaction allows the emitters to perform high-fidelity intranode two-qubit parity measurements within a single chip, and to emit photons to generate internode entanglement, without any need for reconfiguration. We show that by connecting multiple circuits of this kind into a quantum network, it is possible to perform universal quantum computation with heralded two-qubit gate fidelities ${\cal F} \sim 0.998$ achievable in state-of-the-art quantum dot systems.