Inter-connect quantum compute resources via qubit communications utilising entanglement
Funder: British Telecommunications PLC
Lead partner: UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Lead academic: Prof George Zervas
Co-investigators: Dr Alfonso Ruocco
Project amount: £43,500
Research themes: Quantum, Neuromorphic Technologies
Project period: 1 Oct 2024 - 30 Sep 2028
Project description: Leveraged Industry funding as part of the awarded EPSRC Industrial CASE (ICASE) Training Grant (Industrial CASE Account) The project will explore theoretical and experimental methods to develop optical network systems in order to support distributed quantum compute operations using entanglement. This will include but not be limited to the design of optical switches that provide ultra-low insertion loss and high-speed reconfiguration, network architectures that scale to support a 100s-1000s of termination points (quantum processing units) and understand the network impact on fidelity, decoherence, and effective quantum computation. The focus of the project will be determined with the PhD student during the first 6 months of the programme.
