Hard limits on the postselectability of optical graph states

Jeremy C. Adcock, Sam Morley-Short, Joshua W. Silverstone, Mark G. Thompson

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Abstract

Coherent control of large entangled graph states enables a wide variety of quantum information processing tasks, including error-corrected quantum computation. The linear optical approach offers excellent control and coherence, but today most photon sources and entangling gates—required for the construction of large graph states—are probabilistic and rely on postselection. In this work, we provide proofs and heuristics to aid experimental design using postselection. We introduce a versatile design rule for postselectable experiments: drawn as a graph, with qubit as vertices and gates and photon-pair sources as edges, an experiment may only contain cycles with an odd number of sources. We analyse experiments that use photons from postselected photon-pair sources, and lower bound the number of accessible classes of graph state entanglement in the non-degenerate case—graph state entanglement classes that contain a tree are are always accessible. The proportion of graph states accessible by postselection shrinks rapidly, however. We list accessible classes for various resource states up to 9 qubits. Finally, we apply these methods to near-term multi-photon experiments.
Original languageEnglish
Article number015010
Number of pages20
JournalQuantum Science and Technology
Volume4
Issue number1
Early online date28 Nov 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2019

Research Groups and Themes

  • QETLabs
  • Photonics and Quantum

Keywords

  • entanglement
  • graph states
  • linear optical quantum computing
  • numerical methods
  • photon sources
  • photonic experiment design
  • postselection

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  • Programme Grant: Engineering Photonic Quantum Technologies.

    Rarity, J. G. (Principal Investigator), O'Brien, J. L. (Principal Investigator), Thompson, M. G. (Co-Investigator), Erven, C. (Co-Investigator), Sahin, D. (Co-Investigator), Marshall, G. D. (Researcher), Barreto, J. (Co-Investigator), Jiang, P. (Collaborator), McCutcheon, W. D. (Researcher), Silverstone, J. W. (Researcher), Sinclair, G. F. (Researcher), Kling, L. (Engineer), Banerjee, A. (Researcher), Wang, J. (Researcher), Santagati, R. (Researcher), Borghi, M. (Researcher), Woodland, E. M. (Manager), Mawdsley, H. C. M. (Administrator) & Faruque, I. I. (Researcher)

    16/06/1415/06/19

    Project: Research, Parent

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