Suppressing the Erasure Error of Fusion Operation in Photonic Quantum Computing

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ren, Xiangyu, Huang, Yuexun, Zhang, Zhemin, Zhu, Yuchen, Ho, Tsung-Yi, Barbalace, Antonio, Liang, Zhiding
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866910160370270208
author Ren, Xiangyu
Huang, Yuexun
Zhang, Zhemin
Zhu, Yuchen
Ho, Tsung-Yi
Barbalace, Antonio
Liang, Zhiding
author_facet Ren, Xiangyu
Huang, Yuexun
Zhang, Zhemin
Zhu, Yuchen
Ho, Tsung-Yi
Barbalace, Antonio
Liang, Zhiding
contents Photonic quantum computing provides a promising route toward quantum computation by naturally supporting the measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) model. In MBQC, programs are executed through measurements on a pre-generated graph state, whose construction largely depends on probabilistic fusion operations. However, fusion operations in PQC are vulnerable to two major error sources: fusion failure and fusion erasure. As a result, MBQC compilation must account for both error mechanisms to generate reliable and efficient photonic executions. Prior state-of-the-art MBQC compilation, represented by OneAdapt, is designed for all-photonic architectures and mainly focuses on handling fusion failures. Nevertheless, it does not explicitly model fusion erasures induced by photon loss, which can be substantially more damaging than fusion failures. To mitigate fusion erasure errors, we introduce a new MBQC compilation scheme built upon the spin qubit quantum memory. We propose tree-encoded fusion, an encoding strategy that suppresses erasure errors during graph-state generation. We further incorporate this scheme into a compiler framework with algorithms that reduce the execution overhead of quantum programs. We evaluate the proposed framework using a realistic PQC simulator on six representative quantum algorithm benchmarks across multiple program scales. The results show that tree-encoded fusion achieves better robustness than alternative fusion-encoding strategies, and that our compiler provides exponential improvement over OneAdapt. In addition, we validate the feasibility of our approach through a proof-of-concept demonstration on real PQC hardware.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2604_21475
institution arXiv
publishDate 2026
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Suppressing the Erasure Error of Fusion Operation in Photonic Quantum Computing
Ren, Xiangyu
Huang, Yuexun
Zhang, Zhemin
Zhu, Yuchen
Ho, Tsung-Yi
Barbalace, Antonio
Liang, Zhiding
Quantum Physics
Hardware Architecture
Photonic quantum computing provides a promising route toward quantum computation by naturally supporting the measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) model. In MBQC, programs are executed through measurements on a pre-generated graph state, whose construction largely depends on probabilistic fusion operations. However, fusion operations in PQC are vulnerable to two major error sources: fusion failure and fusion erasure. As a result, MBQC compilation must account for both error mechanisms to generate reliable and efficient photonic executions. Prior state-of-the-art MBQC compilation, represented by OneAdapt, is designed for all-photonic architectures and mainly focuses on handling fusion failures. Nevertheless, it does not explicitly model fusion erasures induced by photon loss, which can be substantially more damaging than fusion failures. To mitigate fusion erasure errors, we introduce a new MBQC compilation scheme built upon the spin qubit quantum memory. We propose tree-encoded fusion, an encoding strategy that suppresses erasure errors during graph-state generation. We further incorporate this scheme into a compiler framework with algorithms that reduce the execution overhead of quantum programs. We evaluate the proposed framework using a realistic PQC simulator on six representative quantum algorithm benchmarks across multiple program scales. The results show that tree-encoded fusion achieves better robustness than alternative fusion-encoding strategies, and that our compiler provides exponential improvement over OneAdapt. In addition, we validate the feasibility of our approach through a proof-of-concept demonstration on real PQC hardware.
title Suppressing the Erasure Error of Fusion Operation in Photonic Quantum Computing
topic Quantum Physics
Hardware Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21475