A quantum hybrid system can be defined as consisting of two dissimilar physical systems that share a joint quantum state. Aside from being a fundamentally interesting object a few applications, such as quantum information processors (quantum computers, quantum repeaters) have been suggested. The only way to bring two distant systems in a joint quantum state is to perform measurements on photons.

Here we report on different photon sources, which could be part of a quantum hybrid architecture or which could provide the‘glue’for dissimilar quantum systems. The talk concerns on the one hand the integration of stable emitters as reliable sources and on the other hand the non-linear conversion of their photons, e.g. to the telecom band. Future directions will be discussed.

Oliver Benson since 2001 has been professor of nano-optics at the Institute of Physics, Humboldt University of Berlin. He has studied physics at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. There and at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching he received his doctorate. This was followed by postdoctoral stations at Stanford University and at the University of Konstanz. He was an Emmy Noether junior research group leader and received a Lynen postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Oliver Benson (2016), "Photons as 'Glue' for Dissimilar Quantum Systems," https://nanohub.org/resources/23904.

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1. nanophotonics
2. quantum science and information
3. quantum systems