Hardware-Efficient Universal Linear Transformations for Optical Modes in the Synthetic Time Dimension
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| author | Basani, Jasvith Raj Cui, Chaohan Postlewaite, Jack Waks, Edo Guha, Saikat |
| author_facet | Basani, Jasvith Raj Cui, Chaohan Postlewaite, Jack Waks, Edo Guha, Saikat |
| contents | Recent progress in photonic information processing has spurred strong demand in scalable and reconfigurable photonic circuitry. Conventional spatially-meshed multi-port interferometers require a number of components growing quadratically with the system size, posing a fundamental scaling challenge ahead. Here, we introduce a hardware-efficient synthetic time-domain photonic processor that achieves at least an exponential reduction in hardware component count for implementing arbitrary linear transformations. The processor's dynamic connectivity allows systematic pruning, minimizing optical loss while preserving all-to-all connectivity. We benchmark our architecture on the task of boosted Bell state measurements -- a protocol essential for linear optical quantum computation, and show that it exceeds thresholds for universal cluster-state quantum computation under realistic hardware constraints. We link the device performance to the geometry of multi-photon transport, showing that localization effects from redundant, imperfect hardware may enhance robustness to coherent errors. Our design establishes a practical pathway toward near-term, scalable, and reconfigurable photonic processors in the synthetic time dimension. |
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| spellingShingle | Hardware-Efficient Universal Linear Transformations for Optical Modes in the Synthetic Time Dimension Basani, Jasvith Raj Cui, Chaohan Postlewaite, Jack Waks, Edo Guha, Saikat Quantum Physics Optics Recent progress in photonic information processing has spurred strong demand in scalable and reconfigurable photonic circuitry. Conventional spatially-meshed multi-port interferometers require a number of components growing quadratically with the system size, posing a fundamental scaling challenge ahead. Here, we introduce a hardware-efficient synthetic time-domain photonic processor that achieves at least an exponential reduction in hardware component count for implementing arbitrary linear transformations. The processor's dynamic connectivity allows systematic pruning, minimizing optical loss while preserving all-to-all connectivity. We benchmark our architecture on the task of boosted Bell state measurements -- a protocol essential for linear optical quantum computation, and show that it exceeds thresholds for universal cluster-state quantum computation under realistic hardware constraints. We link the device performance to the geometry of multi-photon transport, showing that localization effects from redundant, imperfect hardware may enhance robustness to coherent errors. Our design establishes a practical pathway toward near-term, scalable, and reconfigurable photonic processors in the synthetic time dimension. |
| title | Hardware-Efficient Universal Linear Transformations for Optical Modes in the Synthetic Time Dimension |
| topic | Quantum Physics Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00865 |