Photonic Quantum States For Quantum Applications

Speaker:

Virginia Lorenz, associate professor of AMO/quantum physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Description:

Quantum computing and quantum communication applications often require the carriers of information, or qubits, to have specific properties. Photonic quantum states are good carriers of information because they are robust to environmental fluctuations, but generating photons with just the right properties is still a challenge. I will present our work on generating, engineering and characterizing photonic quantum states for quantum applications.