Coupled integrated photonic quantum memristors using a single photon source made of a colour center

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Autori principali: Baldazzi, Alessio, Ancel, Roy Philip George Konnoth, Guaraldo, Sebastiano, Chen, Xuan, Akar, Ziad Abi, Deturche, Regis, Azzini, Stefano, Couteau, Christophe, Pavesi, Lorenzo
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author Baldazzi, Alessio
Ancel, Roy Philip George Konnoth
Guaraldo, Sebastiano
Chen, Xuan
Akar, Ziad Abi
Deturche, Regis
Azzini, Stefano
Couteau, Christophe
Pavesi, Lorenzo
author_facet Baldazzi, Alessio
Ancel, Roy Philip George Konnoth
Guaraldo, Sebastiano
Chen, Xuan
Akar, Ziad Abi
Deturche, Regis
Azzini, Stefano
Couteau, Christophe
Pavesi, Lorenzo
contents Photonic quantum memristors provide a measurement-induced route to nonlinear and history-dependent quantum dynamics. Experimental demonstrations have so far focused on isolated devices or simple cascaded devices configurations. Here, we experimentally realize and characterize a network of two coupled photonic quantum memristors with crossed feedback, implemented on a silicon nitride photonic integrated circuit and fed by a room-temperature single-photon source based on a silicon-vacancy color center SiV$^-$ in a nanodiamond. Each memristor consists of an integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer whose transfer function is adaptively updated by photon detection events on another memristor, thus generating novel non-Markovian input-output dynamics with an enhanced memristive behaviour compared to single devices. In particular, we report inter-memristor input-output hysteresis curves exhibiting larger form factors and displaying self-intersecting loops, respectively revealing marked bistability and topologically non-trivial memory dynamics. Furthermore, numerical simulations show how these features emerge from the interplay between memory depth and relative input phase, for both intra- and inter-memristor input-output relations. Our results establish coupled integrated photonic quantum memristors as scalable nonlinear building blocks and highlight their potential for implementing compact quantum neuromorphic and reservoir computing architectures.
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spellingShingle Coupled integrated photonic quantum memristors using a single photon source made of a colour center
Baldazzi, Alessio
Ancel, Roy Philip George Konnoth
Guaraldo, Sebastiano
Chen, Xuan
Akar, Ziad Abi
Deturche, Regis
Azzini, Stefano
Couteau, Christophe
Pavesi, Lorenzo
Quantum Physics
Photonic quantum memristors provide a measurement-induced route to nonlinear and history-dependent quantum dynamics. Experimental demonstrations have so far focused on isolated devices or simple cascaded devices configurations. Here, we experimentally realize and characterize a network of two coupled photonic quantum memristors with crossed feedback, implemented on a silicon nitride photonic integrated circuit and fed by a room-temperature single-photon source based on a silicon-vacancy color center SiV$^-$ in a nanodiamond. Each memristor consists of an integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer whose transfer function is adaptively updated by photon detection events on another memristor, thus generating novel non-Markovian input-output dynamics with an enhanced memristive behaviour compared to single devices. In particular, we report inter-memristor input-output hysteresis curves exhibiting larger form factors and displaying self-intersecting loops, respectively revealing marked bistability and topologically non-trivial memory dynamics. Furthermore, numerical simulations show how these features emerge from the interplay between memory depth and relative input phase, for both intra- and inter-memristor input-output relations. Our results establish coupled integrated photonic quantum memristors as scalable nonlinear building blocks and highlight their potential for implementing compact quantum neuromorphic and reservoir computing architectures.
title Coupled integrated photonic quantum memristors using a single photon source made of a colour center
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14736