Optical Quantum Computing

arXiv:2609.18347 · quant-ph, physics.optics · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, physics.optics

Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

Terminology

• Boson Sampling — 108× in this paper
• Entanglement — 63× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Gaussian Boson Sampling — 34× in this paper
• Fidelity — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Wigner function — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantum Circuits — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multipartite Entanglement — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scattershot Boson Sampling — 5× in this paper
• Benchmarking — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Post-Selection — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptivity — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Hamiltonian Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid Approach — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Hybrid Architectures — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Mach-Zehnder Interferometer — 2× in this paper
• Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Parameter Shift Rule — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifiability — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Active Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Adjacency Matrix — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Analyzer — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• CSS Codes — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fisher Information — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Information Leakage — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers — 1× in this paper
• Modular Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Modularity — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Non-Gaussianity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Physical Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

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• 20-Mode Universal Quantum Photonic Processor
• TensorFlow Quantum: A Software Framework for Quantum Machine Learning
• Practical blueprint for low-depth photonic quantum computing with quantum dots
• Lecture notes on quantum computing
• Stabilizer Codes for Continuous-variable Quantum Error Correction
• A Compact One-Way Fault-Tolerant Optical Quantum Computation
• A full-stack analog optical quantum computing platform with one hundred inputs
• The Octo-Rail Lattice: a four-dimensional cluster state design
• Quantum Error Correction with the GKP Code and Concatenation with Stabilizer Codes
• Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation With Constant Error Rate
• Marginal probabilities in boson samplers with arbitrary input states
• Robust quantum computational advantage with programmable 3050-photon Gaussian boson sampling
• Cracking the Quantum Advantage threshold for Gaussian Boson Sampling
• Simulating Gaussian Boson Sampling with Tensor Networks in the Heisenberg picture
• Variational Hamiltonian Diagonalization for Dynamical Quantum Simulation
• QVECTOR: an algorithm for device-tailored quantum error correction
• Exact gradients for linear optics with single photons
• Harnessing Photon Indistinguishability in Quantum Extreme Learning Machines
• Enhanced Image Recognition Using Gaussian Boson Sampling

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