FY2023 Annual Report

Networked Quantum Devices Unit
Associate Professor David Elkouss

(From left to right) Faedi Loulidi, David Elkouss, Manuel Goulão, Zherui Wang, Siddhant Singh, Ananda Maity, Joshua Casapao, Yukari Yoseda, and Golshan Lirabi.

Abstract

The networked quantum devices unit started activity in 2022. The goal of the unit is to develop the necessary theoretical tools such as novel error correction mechanisms as well as insights into the fundamental limitations, cryptographic protocols, or simulation algorithms that will enable near-term proof of principle demonstrations of quantum networks and their applications.

1. Staff

  • David Elkouss, associate professor
  • Yukari Yoseda, research unit administrator
  • Ananda G. Maity, postdoctoral researcher
  • Manuel Goulão, postdoctoral researcher
  • Faedi Loulidi, postdoctoral researcher
  • Joshua Carlo Aparicio Casapao, PhD student
  • Siddhant Singh, visiting PhD student
  • Samuel Begumya, rotation student
  • Jiajun Chen, rotation student
  • Zhenghan Yuan, rotation student
  • Kyle Grant, rotation student 
  • Zherui Wang, intern
  • Marcel Mordarski, intern
  • Golshan Lirabi, intern

2. Collaborations

2.1 Enumeration of distillation protocols

  • Type of collaboration: Joint research
  • Researchers:
    • David Elkouss, OIST
    • Shin Sun, OIST
    • Kenneth Goodenough, University of Massachussets Amherst
    • Sebastian de Bone, TU Delft
    • Sarah Jansen, University of Amsterdam
    • Dion Gijswijt, TU Delft
    • Vaishnavi Addala, MIT
    • Stean Krastanov, MIT

2.2 Color centers in diamond for distributed quantum computation

  • Type of collaboration: Joint research
  • Researchers:
    • David Elkouss, OIST
    • Sebastian de Bone, TU Delft
    • Siddhant Singh, OIST & TU Delft
    • Tim Taminiau, TU Delft
    • Connor Bradley, University of Chicago
    • Stefan Wong, TU Delft
    • Folkert de Ronde, TU Delft

2.3 Entanglement estimation

  • Type of collaboration: Joint research
  • Researchers:
    • David Elkouss, OIST
    • Ananda Maity, OIST
    • Joshua Casapao, OIST
    • Zherui Wang, OIST
    • Rod Van Meter, Keio University
    • Michal Hajdusek, Keio University
    • Naphan Benchasattabuse, Keio University

3. Activities and Findings

3.1 Werner states can be efficiently estimated from distillation outcomes

Estimating noise processes is an essential step for practical quantum information processing. Standard estimation tools require consuming valuable quantum resources. Here we ask the question of whether the noise affecting entangled states can be learned solely from the measurement statistics obtained during a distillation protocol. As a first step, we consider states of the Werner form and find that the Werner parameter can be estimated efficiently from the measurement statistics of an idealized distillation protocol. Our proposed estimation method can find application in scenarios where distillation is an unavoidable step.

Figure: Minimum number of samples n required for estimating the Werner parameter w with failure probability Pr(|wˆ − w| ≥ epsilon)=0.01. The solid (dashed) curves correspond to the estimation via a noise-free distillation protocol (via tomography). The dash-dotted curves correspond to the distillation protocol in the presence of depolarizing noise, where S = exp(−1/5). For the range w ≤ 1/2, we find that the number of samples required for a successful distillation-based estimation can be significantly less than that for tomography.

3.2 GHZ distillation in the presence of decoherence

We introduced a novel heuristic approach to optimize the performance of Greenberger-Horne- Zeilinger (GHZ) creation and distillation protocols under decoherence. Our methodology converts these protocols into a practical set of instructions, demonstrating, through simulations, the production of higher-quality GHZ states than previously known protocols. This advancement contributes to the field of distributed quantum computing by addressing the need for high-quality entanglement required for operations between different quantum computers.

Figure: (a) Binary tree consuming a minimum of four entangled pairs. (b) Time steps for the operations in this binary tree. (c) Protocol recipe for this binary tree.

4. Publications

4.1 Journals

  1. LIMDD: A Decision Diagram for Simulation of Quantum Computing Including Stabilizer States, Vinkhuijzen, L., Coopmans, T., Elkouss, D., Dunjko, V., & Laarman, A. Quantum, 7, 1108 (2023). https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2023-09-11-1108 
  2. Quantum repeaters: From quantum networks to the quantum internet, K. Azuma, S. E. Economou, D. Elkouss, P. Hilaire, L. Jiang, H-K. Lo, and I. Tzitrin. Reviews of Modern Physics 95, 045006 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.95.045006
  3. Assessing non-Markovian dynamics through moments of the Choi state, B. Mallick, S. Mukherjee, A. G. Maity, A. S. Majumdar. Physical Review A, 109, 022247 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.109.022247
  4. Noise estimation in an entanglement distillation protocol, Ananda G. Maity, Joshua C. A. Casapao, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Michal Hajdusek, Rodney Van Meter, David Elkouss, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Volume 51 Issue 2 pp 66–68 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1145/3626570.3626594 (Issue publishing the proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS)
  5. GHZ distillation protocols in the presence of decoherence, Sebastian de Bone, David Elkouss, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Volume 51 Issue 2 pp 81–83 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1145/3626570.3626599 (Issue publishing the proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS)

4.2 Conference proceedings

  1. Low-Depth Flag-Style Syndrome Extraction for Small Quantum Error-Correction Codes, D. Bhatnagar, M. Steinberg, D. Elkouss, C. G. Almudever and S. Feld, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE). https://doi.org/10.1109/QCE57702.2023.00016 
  2. Micro-architecture and Control Electronics Simulation of Modular Color Center-Based Quantum Computers, Folkert de Ronde, Matti Dreef, Stephan Wong, David Elkouss, SAMOS 2023 International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-46077-7_10

4.3 Oral and Poster Presentations

5. Intellectual Property Rights and Other Specific Achievements

Nothing to report

6. Meetings and Events

6.1 Security of Discrete-Modulated Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution

6.2 Compatibility and nonlocality

6.3 One shot purity distillation using local noisy operations and one way classical communication

6.4 Materials for quantum computing: On and off the beaten path

6.5 Fully Passive Quantum Key Distribution Protocols

6.6 Entanglement topography of large-scale quantum networks

6.7 Haar random and pretty good measurements for state estimation

6.8 Multi-Photon Interference

6.9 Minimizing Resources for Quantum Tasks: Error Correction and Algorithms

6.10 Policies for entanglement distribution in quantum networks: theory and practical performance analysis

6.11 Seminar at Cambridge U

6.12 Modular architectures and entanglement schemes for error corrected distributed quantum computing

6.13 Challenges for implementing communications tasks in near term quantum networks

  • Date: December 27, 2023
  • Speaker: David Elkouss
  • Venue: NTT Research Labs at Atsugi

6.14 Quantum versus classical: Identifying the value of a random variable unambiguously

7. Other

Nothing to report.