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Minimizing Photonic Cluster State Depth in Measurement-Based Quantum Computing

Quantum Physics 2023-12-19 v1 Hardware Architecture

Abstract

Measurement-based quantum computing (MBQC) is a promising quantum computing paradigm that performs computation through ``one-way'' measurements on entangled quantum qubits. It is widely used in photonic quantum computing (PQC), where the computation is carried out on photonic cluster states (i.e., a 2-D mesh of entangled photons). In MBQC-based PQC, the cluster state depth (i.e., the length of one-way measurements) to execute a quantum circuit plays an important role in the overall execution time and error. Thus, it is important to reduce the cluster state depth. In this paper, we propose FMCC, a compilation framework that employs dynamic programming to efficiently minimize the cluster state depth. Experimental results on five representative quantum algorithms show that FMCC achieves 53.6%, 60.6%, and 60.0% average depth reductions in small, medium, and large qubit counts compared to the state-of-the-art MBQC compilation frameworks.

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@article{arxiv.2312.10865,
  title  = {Minimizing Photonic Cluster State Depth in Measurement-Based Quantum Computing},
  author = {Yingheng Li and Aditya Pawar and Zewei Mo and Youtao Zhang and Jun Yang and Xulong Tang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.10865},
  year   = {2023}
}
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