NYC QC - PsiQuantum - Virtual and In-Person Meetup October 4, 2021

Dr. Naomi Nickerson from PsiQuantum will present at 6pm on October 4, 2021.

NOTE : This talk will be both in-person and virtual.

September 30, 2021 UPDATE : To access the virtual event via Zoom use Meeting ID 942-8217-7877 P/W 830790

Abstract

Fusion based quantum computing with silicon photonics

A linear optical approach to quantum computing offers highly coherent qubits, high fidelity single qubit gates, and probabilistic entangling operations that can be implemented using well-known quantum optical methods. The key advantage of photonic quantum computing is the fact that the required photonic chips can be produced in conventional fabrication facilities used for commercial silicon photonics, allowing scaling to achieve large-scale error correction. In this talk I will introduce fusion-based quantum computing (FBQC) - a model of universal quantum computation which is ideally suited to a linear optical quantum computing platform. FBQC offers performance improvements compared to previous schemes, and significant architectural simplifications, enabling hardware made up of many identical modules, requiring an extremely low depth of operations on each physical qubit and reducing classical processing requirements.

Bio:

Dr. Naomi Nickerson leads the quantum architecture team at PsiQuantum, a Palo Alto-based startup building a fault-tolerant, silicon-photonic quantum computer. After earning her PhD in the theory of quantum error correction between Imperial College London and Oxford University, she worked as a software engineer in San Francisco before joining PsiQuantum to design quantum error correction for photonic quantum computing.