Abstract
Quantum walks (QWs) simulate particle behaviors in the quantum mechanical regime, which exhibit time evolutions completely different from the classical (probabilistic) random works [1]. QWs offer quantum physical simulations and the novel approach to build quantum computers. Currently on-chip photonic devices implementing QWs have been intensively developed. QW photonic chips were realized using photonic circuits based on silica (SiO2) waveguide platforms [1,2]. Here, we demonstrate a QW chip based on the other waveguide platform, namely the long-range surface plasmon polariton (LR-SPP) waveguide [3]. The LR-SPP waveguide allows a single-polarization mode, and has relatively low optical losses. Moreover, the LR-SPP waveguide platform will realize two-dimensional waveguide lattice structures with a high reliability. Thus, the LR-SPP waveguide is the potential platform to construct large-scale and high-dimension QW simulators.
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