DLS: Dirk Englund - Large-Scale Photonics for Quantum Information & Machine Learning 

Programming Complexity: Large-Scale Photonics for Quantum Information and Machine Learning
After several decades of intensive theoretical and experimental efforts, the field of quantum information processing at a critical moment: special-purpose quantum information processors are at or past the “quantum complexity frontier” where classical computers can no longer predict their outputs: we can “program complexity”, unable to predict the outcome. Meanwhile, new technologies to connect quantum processors by photons give rise to quantum networks with functions impossible on today’s “classical-physics” internet. However, to harness the power of quantum complexity in “noisy intermediate-scale” quantum computers and networks requires advanced methods in quantum control and noise mitigation - perhaps to the ultimate goal of fault tolerant computing. This talk discusses one approach in that direction: large-scale programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) designed to control photons and atomic or atom-like quantum memories. The second part of the talk considers another “complexity frontier”: that encountered in machine learning and signal processing when trying to process exponentially growing quantities of data. These problems present new opportunities at the intersection with quantum information technologies - specifically, we will consider new directions for processing classical and quantum information in deep learning neural networks architectures.
The Distinguished Lecturer Series brings leading minds from all areas relevant to the science of light to MPL in Erlangen. It presents the unique opportunity for scientific exchange with the speakers to a broad audience.
The topics range from terahertz optics with graphene, over self-organising proteins to particle accelerators on a chip.
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