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SUMMARY:CREOL Spring Colloquium: Han Zhao, UCF Physics
URL:https://events.ucf.edu/event/4024259/creol-spring-colloquium-han-zhao-ucf-physics/
DESCRIPTION:Title: Building network of superconducting quantum processors with optical interconnects\n\nAbstract: Optically interconnected networks of heterogeneous quantum platforms are milestones of future quantum information infrastructure. Integrating superconducting qubits as the prominent quantum processors in such a network requires efficient and high-fidelity microwave-optical interfaces. In this talk, I will highlight our recent progress towards an electro-optomechanical transducer, which converts quantum-level microwave signal in a superconducting circuit to optical photons in telecom-band fibers via electrostatically actuated high-quality silicon nanomechanics. I will share our design strategy to achieve simultaneously high conversion rate and low added noise - the two important metrics for entangling remote superconducting qubits. Lastly, I will conclude with our plans to tackle optically heralded long-distance entanglement generation and the prospect of distributed quantum computation. \n\nAbout the Speaker: Han Zhao is an assistant professor at the Department of Physics, UCF. Previously, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech working on quantum microwave-to-optical frequency conversion using silicon nanomechanics. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019, where his research focus was on non-Hermitian topological photonics.\n\nVirtual Location URL: https://ucf.zoom.us/j/93031877906?from=addon
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