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Caruso F, Crespi A, Ciriolo AG, et al. Fast escape of a quantum walker from an integrated photonic maze. Nat Commun. 2016;7:11682doi: 10.1038/ncomms11682.
Caruso, F., Crespi, A., Ciriolo, A. G., Sciarrino, F., & Osellame, R. (2016). Fast escape of a quantum walker from an integrated photonic maze. Nature communications, 711682. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11682
Caruso, Filippo, et al. "Fast escape of a quantum walker from an integrated photonic maze." Nature communications vol. 7 (2016): 11682. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11682
Caruso F, Crespi A, Ciriolo AG, Sciarrino F, Osellame R. Fast escape of a quantum walker from an integrated photonic maze. Nat Commun. 2016 Jun 01;7:11682. doi: 10.1038/ncomms11682. PMID: 27248707; PMCID: PMC4895438.
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Nat Commun. 2016 Jun 01;7:11682. doi: 10.1038/ncomms11682.

Fast escape of a quantum walker from an integrated photonic maze.

Nature communications

Filippo Caruso, Andrea Crespi, Anna Gabriella Ciriolo, Fabio Sciarrino, Roberto Osellame

Affiliations

  1. LENS, QSTAR &Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
  2. Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFN-CNR), Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy.
  3. Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy.
  4. Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Roma, Italy.

PMID: 27248707 PMCID: PMC4895438 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11682

Abstract

Escaping from a complex maze, by exploring different paths with several decision-making branches in order to reach the exit, has always been a very challenging and fascinating task. Wave field and quantum objects may explore a complex structure in parallel by interference effects, but without necessarily leading to more efficient transport. Here, inspired by recent observations in biological energy transport phenomena, we demonstrate how a quantum walker can efficiently reach the output of a maze by partially suppressing the presence of interference. In particular, we show theoretically an unprecedented improvement in transport efficiency for increasing maze size with respect to purely quantum and classical approaches. In addition, we investigate experimentally these hybrid transport phenomena, by mapping the maze problem in an integrated waveguide array, probed by coherent light, hence successfully testing our theoretical results. These achievements may lead towards future bio-inspired photonics technologies for more efficient transport and computation.

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