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Berry's phase on photonic quantum computers

Quantum Physics 2025-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We formulate a continuous-variable quantum computing (CVQC) algorithm to study Berry's phase on photonic quantum computers. We demonstrate that CVQC allows the simulation of charged particles with orbital angular momentum under the influence of an adiabatically changing B\vec{B} field. Although formulated entirely in the CVQC setting, our construction uses only passive linear-optical operations (beam splitters and phase shifts), which act identically in single-photon photonic architectures. This enables experimental realisation on the Quandella Ascella platform, where we observe the Berry's phase phenomenon with interferometric measurement. We also generalise the framework to more rapid non-adiabatic evolution. By concatenating Aharonov-Anandan cycles for opposing magnetic fields we demonstrate that one can engineer a circuit in which dynamical phases and leading non-geometric errors cancel by symmetry, leaving the intrinsically robust geometric phase contribution.

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@article{arxiv.2511.19598,
  title  = {Berry's phase on photonic quantum computers},
  author = {Steven Abel and Iwo Wasek and Simon Williams},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.19598},
  year   = {2025}
}

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16 pages, 10 figures

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