In this talk I will go over some of the aspects of designing a scalable photonic fault-tolerant quantum computer [1]. Any quantum computing platform has two broad divisions (i) the architecture---that deals with the physical resources required to realize states, gates and measurements and (ii) error correction---the code being implemented to protect against device imperfections in the various modules. I will briefly touch upon these two aspects with regard to photonic computation that is based on qubits encoded in continuous degrees of freedom. I will then focus on one particular problem that is an important bottleneck needed to be overcome for a photonic implementation: that of non-Gaussian state generation for use as codewords. I will talk about some recent advances in this direction both from the experimental [2] and the theoretical side [3].
References:
(1) Blueprint for a Scalable Photonic Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer, Quantum (2021)
(2) Quantum circuits with many photons on a programmable nanophotonic chip, Nature (2021) [in press]
(3) Conversion of Gaussian states to non-Gaussian states using photon-number-resolving detectors, PRA (2019)
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