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(糖心视频) -- A team from the University of Bristol鈥檚 Centre for Quantum Photonics (CQP) has experimentally demonstrated how to use Berry鈥檚 phase to accurately control quantum interference between different photons.

The effect may provide a way to implement reliable circuits for the coming generation of photonic quantum simulators, systems of photons designed to simulate other quantum systems, set to be physically realised much sooner than the universal quantum computer.

The paper, published in 糖心视频ical Review Letters, connects one of Bristol鈥檚 most celebrated results 鈥� Professor Sir Michael Berry of the School of 糖心视频ics formulated the geometric phase effect nearly three decades ago 鈥� with the current wave of fundamental science exploration and quantum technologies emerging from CQP.

As described by Berry in 1984, a quantum particle that returns to its start point after a cyclic journey is found to be subtly changed: phase shifted. Among the many applications of this widely studied effect are robust methods to implement the circuits of a universal quantum computer, Berry鈥檚 way of phase shifting turns out to be very reliable.

Meanwhile, in 1987, Hong Ou and Mandel (HOM) demonstrated how two photons interfere in a very peculiar way, preferring to stick together. The HOM quantum interference effect is at the core of the anticipated photonic quantum simulators that, by their very nature, are impossible to run on a conventional computer.

In this experiment, the Bristol team brought these two phenomena together to show how HOM interference can be exquisitely controlled with Berry鈥檚 phase. Apart from being fundamentally interesting in its own right, connecting the computationally valuable HOM effect with the robust gates of the Berry phase paves the way for fault tolerant circuits in photonic quantum simulators.