3 papers
physics.optics2026
Ion-Implanted Silicon Nanoregions Enable Ultra-Low-Loss Trimming of Cladded Photonic Integrated Circuits
Zhongyu Tang, Shabnam Taheriniya, Seongmin Jo +8
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have emerged as a key platform for information processing, including optical communication and computing. As PIC complexity increases, fabricati…
physics.app-ph2026
Probabilistic Photonic Computing
Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Anna P. Ovvyan, Akhil Varri +8
Probabilistic computing excels in approximating combinatorial problems and modelling uncertainty. However, using conventional deterministic hardware for probabilistic models is cha…
quant-ph2026
Practical quantum tokens: challenges and perspectives
Nadezhda P. Kukharchyk, Holger Boche, Christian Deppe +21
The concept of quantum tokens dates back alongside quantum cryptography to Stephen Wiesner's seminal work in 1983[1]. Already this initial work proposes society-relevant applicatio…