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October 28, 2024

TELUS and Photonic join forces to build Canada’s quantum future

TELUS is excited to announce a collaboration with Photonic Inc., to accelerate the development of next-generation quantum communications in Canada.

May 30, 2024

Photonic demonstrates distributed entanglement between modules, marking significant milestone toward scalable quantum computing and networking.

May 30, 2024

The Path to Distributed Quantum Computing

Interview with Photonic's Founder and Chief Quantum Officer, Dr. Stephanie Simmons, about the path to large-scale distributed fault-tolerant quantum computers.

May 30, 2024

Distributed Quantum Entanglement

Scalability is perhaps the biggest challenge facing quantum computing. Known technologies have fundamental limitations on how many qubits can fit in a single module, which poses the question of how to scale beyond the number of qubits that can be hosted by a single module.

May 30, 2024

Distributed Quantum Computing in Silicon

Developing performant quantum systems of commercial utility will require hundreds to thousands of logical qubits. To achieve this capacity, quantum systems must be modular due to the upper limits of qubit capacity in any single monolithic machine.

May 13, 2024

Tuning in: New insights highlight capabilities of T centres for distributing entanglement

Photonic is excited to announce the newly publicized results from our collaboration with research partners at Simon Fraser University and Dartmouth College. Our research, now available on arXiv, delves deep into the physics of T centres, our chosen qubit technology.

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Recent Publications

May 30, 2024
Distributed Quantum Computing in Silicon
Here we present preliminary demonstrations of some key distributed quantum computing protocols on silicon T centres in isotopically-enriched silicon. We demonstrate the distribution of entanglement between modules and consume it to apply a teleported gate sequence, establishing a proof-of-concept for T centres as a distributed quantum computing and networking platform.
May 14, 2024
Optical transition parameters of the silicon T centre
New insights highlight capabilities of T centres for distributed quantum computing
November 8, 2023
Scalable Fault-Tolerant Quantum Technologies with Silicon Colour Centres
This Perspective, recently submitted to arXiv, proposes a novel architecture for quantum information processing based on optically active spins in silicon that offers a combined single technological platform for scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing and networking. The architecture is optimized for overall entanglement distribution and leverages colour centre spins in silicon (T centres) for their manufacturability, photonic interface, and high fidelity information processing properties. Silicon nanophotonic optical circuits allow for photonic links between T centres, which are networked via telecom-band optical photons in a highly-connected graph. This high connectivity unlocks the use of low-overhead quantum error correction codes, significantly accelerating the timeline for modular, scalable fault- tolerant quantum repeaters and quantum processors.
November 8, 2023
What could networks of quantum supercomputers look like?
April 21, 2023
Waveguide-integrated silicon T centres
Optica
April 17, 2023
Memory and transduction prospects for silicon T centre devices
PRX Quantum
July 13, 2022
Optical observation of single spins in silicon
Nature
October 8, 2021
Generating T centres in photonic silicon-on-insulator material by ion implantation
New Journal of Physics
October 2, 2020
A silicon-integrated telecom photon-spin interface
PRX Quantum