Dr Vincenzo Tamma - The quantum computational and sensing supremacy of inner-mode resolved multiphoton interference

Dr Vincenzo Tamma - Portsmouth University.

The quantum computational and sensing supremacy of inner-mode resolved multiphoton interference - Multiphoton quantum interference underpins fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and quantum technologies, including applications in quantum computing, quantum sensing and quantum communication.

Standard quantum information processing schemes rely on the challenging need of generating a large number of identical photons. In this talk, we show how the difference in the photonic spectral properties, instead of being a drawback to overcome in experimental realisations, can be exploited as a remarkable quantum resource.

Interestingly, we demonstrate how harnessing the full multiphoton quantum information stored in the photonic spectra by frequency and time resolved correlation measurements in linear interferometers enables the characterisation of multiphoton networks and states, produces a wide variety of multipartite entanglement, and scales-up experimental demonstrations of boson sampling quantum computational supremacy. 

These results are therefore of profound interest for future applications of universal spectrally resolved linear optics across fundamental science and quantum technologies with photons with experimentally different spectral properties.