QIPIRC

Joshua Nunn

A third breakthrough concerns the transfer of coherence between optical and material systems, one of the major goals of QIP IRC. Quantum memories for light are required to store photons within quantum optical networks, allowing probabilistic operations to be synchronized.

Sougato Bose

Entanglement or "quantum correlations" between distant systems is a pivotal resource in quantum information processing. For example, if entanglement could be established between qubits belonging to two separate quantum processors, they could effectively act as a single, more powerful, quantum processor.  Thus emerges the idea of having substantial entanglement between opposite ends of a spin chain, so that this chain could be used as a quantum bus connecting spins (qubits) in two separate processors.