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This study establishes a universal fidelity law for linear-optical entangling gates, linking gate performance directly to standard photon source metrics like Hong-Ou-Mandel visibility and second-order coherence. By demonstrating that diverse physical platforms adhere to the same fidelity relationship regardless of specific noise overlaps, the work provides a unified benchmark for characterizing sources in photonic quantum computing. This framework eliminates free parameters when validating experiments across different hardware architectures, streamlining the path toward scalable optical quantum processors.
Universal Fidelity Law for Linear-Optical Entangling Gates
arXiv:2609.25861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imperfect photon sources degrade the performance of interference-based linear-optical entangling gates. We derive a universal fidelity law for these gates in terms of two standard source metrics: Hong-Ou-Mandel visibility and second-order coherence. We model the multiphoton component as an arbitrary overlap between noise and signal photons. While different values of the signal-noise overlap produce different error structures, associated with different physical platforms, all result in the same fidelity law. We test the model on our actively synchronized CNOT-gate experiment and against published results across different platforms, with no free parameters. This framework turns source characterization into a unified benchmark for photonic quantum computing.
Abstract:Imperfect photon sources degrade the performance of interference-based linear-optical entangling gates. We derive a universal fidelity law for these gates in terms of two standard source metrics: Hong-Ou-Mandel visibility and second-order coherence. We model the multiphoton component as an arbitrary overlap between noise and signal photons. While different values of the signal-noise overlap produce different error structures, associated with different physical platforms, all result in the same fidelity law. We test the model on our actively synchronized CNOT-gate experiment and against published results across different platforms, with no free parameters. This framework turns source characterization into a unified benchmark for photonic quantum computing.
Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Optics (physics.optics)
arXiv:2609.25861 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:2609.25861v1 [quant-ph] for this version)
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