A compiler for universal photonic quantum computers

Author(s)
Felix Zilk, Korbinian Staudacher, Tobias Guggemos, Karl Fürlinger, Dieter Kranzlmüller, Philip Walther
Abstract

Photons are a natural resource in quantum information, and the last decade showed significant progress in high-quality single photon generation and detection. Furthermore, photonic qubits are easy to manipulate and do not require particularly strongly sealed environments, making them an appealing platform for quantum computing. With the one-way model, the vision of a universal and largescale quantum computer based on photonics becomes feasible. In one-way computing, the input state is not an initial product state 0 ⊗ n, but a socalled cluster state. A series of measurements on the cluster state's individual qubits and their temporal order, together with a feed-forward procedure, determine the quantum circuit to be executed. We propose a pipeline to convert a QASM circuit into a graph representation named measurement-graph (m-graph), that can be directly translated to hardware instructions on an optical one-way quantum computer. In addition, we optimize the graph using ZX-Calculus before evaluating the execution on an experimental discrete variable photonic platform.

Organisation(s)
Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
External organisation(s)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Pages
57-67
No. of pages
11
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/QCS56647.2022.00012
Publication date
01-2023
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103026 Quantum optics, 102022 Software development
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Computer Science (miscellaneous), Hardware and Architecture, Software, Control and Optimization, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/a-compiler-for-universal-photonic-quantum-computers(1bd978f9-c59b-40c1-8573-0807651265f0).html