Sizhen Chip Demonstrates Multi-Qubit Photonic Quantum States on Silicon Chip

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Hefei Sizhen Chip Technology and researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China reported an on-chip photonic quantum computing demonstration using programmable silicon photonic chips.

The team reported generating a 4-photon 16-qubit GHZ state and a single-photon 4-qubit cluster state using a measurement-based quantum computing approach.

The research explores how high-dimensional photonic encoding and programmable photonic circuits could support scalable quantum computing architectures.

Hefei Sizhen Chip Technology Co., Ltd. and the research group of Professor Ren Xifeng at the Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China have reported a breakthrough in photonic quantum computing chip technology, Jiwei reported.