TAMING COMPLEXITY WITH QUANTUM STRATEGIES: A HYBRID INTEGRATED PHOTONICS APPROACH

Quantum technologies will impact on both scientific research and daily aspects of modern society. Relevant applications include the simulation of complex quantum systems and quantum chemistry, material engineering, nano-technologies, and internet commerce and security.

By exploiting a hybrid-integrated photonic platform, the Project aims at providing experimental breakthroughs in this research area, considering both 'hardware' and 'software' contributions. In particular, three key objectives are pursued:

- Exploit machine learning to gain new insights in quantum physics.

- Demonstrate that integrated photonics can be fruitfully adopted to implement quantum machine learning.

- Head towards a certified quantum advantage over the best possible strategies on classical computational and simulation devices, for a set of nontrivial tasks in information processing.

The Principal Investigator is Prof. Fabio Sciarrino, at the Sapienza University of Rome. Politecnico di Milano is a partner in this project, offering key expertise in femtosecond laser micromachining to design and fabricate innovative photonic devices based on integrated waveguide circuits. Other Institutions, partners in this project, are University of Salerno, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, University of Bari and University of Palermo.