Special Seminar Monday, June 20, 2016 11:00 AM Haus Room, 36-428 Raffaele Santagati University of Bristol Towards quantum information processing in silicon quantum photonics Abstract Silicon photonics with the ability of integrating lasers, photon pair sources, modulators, filters and detectors is a promising technology for the development of integrated quantum photonics. In this talk I will present our most recent experimental results going from the generation and analysis of entangled states on-chip to the application of silicon photonics to quantum information processing. I will show how, using integrated photon pair sources in silicon waveguide we implement non-compiled controlled unitary operations of 2 qubits and a new variational protocol for quantum simulation. Brief Biography After I graduated from "Sapienza University of Rome" in Physics, I worked at the CNR-ISC (Institute for Complex Systems), where we studied experimentally and quantitatively collective animal behaviour (flocks). Then I moved to Grenoble (FR) where I worked at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in the inelastic X-ray scattering beam-line and where I wrote my master thesis. After my MSc I spent some time in industry working on Medical and Clinical applied research. In 2012 I started studying at the Centre for Quantum Photonics in Bristol, where I received a PhD last March and where I am continuing as PDRA. My recent work is focused mainly in silicon quantum photonics and its use for quantum information processing. I am fascinated by the applications of this technology and in particular by quantum simulation on quantum computers. _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip