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Programmable frequency-bin quantum states in a nano-engineered silicon device

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Matteo Galli, Marco Clementi
2023

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Frequency-bin qubits get the best of time-bin and dual-rail encodings, but require external modulators and pulse shapers to build arbitrary states. Here, instead, the authors work directly on-chip by controlling the interference of biphoton amplitudes generated in multiple, coherently-pumped ring resonators.

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