Using an imperfect photonic network to implement random unitaries
We numerically investigate the implementation of Haar-random unitarity transformations and Fourier transformations in photonic devices consisting of beam splitters and phase shifters, which are used for integrated photonics implementations of boson sampling. The distribution of reflectivities requir...
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| author | Burgwal, R Clements, W Smith, D Gates, J Kolthammer, W Renema, J Walmsley, I |
| author_facet | Burgwal, R Clements, W Smith, D Gates, J Kolthammer, W Renema, J Walmsley, I |
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| description | We numerically investigate the implementation of Haar-random unitarity transformations and Fourier transformations in photonic devices consisting of beam splitters and phase shifters, which are used for integrated photonics implementations of boson sampling. The distribution of reflectivities required to implement an arbitrary unitary transformation is skewed towards low values, and this skew becomes stronger the larger the number of modes. A realistic implementation using Mach-Zehnder interferometers is incapable of achieving the low values required and thus has limited fidelity. We show that numerical optimisation and adding extra beam splitters to the network can help to restore fidelity. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:4da08144-4d61-446e-92a2-b845b78056e02022-03-26T15:56:29ZUsing an imperfect photonic network to implement random unitariesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:4da08144-4d61-446e-92a2-b845b78056e0Symplectic Elements at OxfordOptical Society of America2017Burgwal, RClements, WSmith, DGates, JKolthammer, WRenema, JWalmsley, IWe numerically investigate the implementation of Haar-random unitarity transformations and Fourier transformations in photonic devices consisting of beam splitters and phase shifters, which are used for integrated photonics implementations of boson sampling. The distribution of reflectivities required to implement an arbitrary unitary transformation is skewed towards low values, and this skew becomes stronger the larger the number of modes. A realistic implementation using Mach-Zehnder interferometers is incapable of achieving the low values required and thus has limited fidelity. We show that numerical optimisation and adding extra beam splitters to the network can help to restore fidelity. |
| spellingShingle | Burgwal, R Clements, W Smith, D Gates, J Kolthammer, W Renema, J Walmsley, I Using an imperfect photonic network to implement random unitaries |
| title | Using an imperfect photonic network to implement random unitaries |
| title_full | Using an imperfect photonic network to implement random unitaries |
| title_fullStr | Using an imperfect photonic network to implement random unitaries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using an imperfect photonic network to implement random unitaries |
| title_short | Using an imperfect photonic network to implement random unitaries |
| title_sort | using an imperfect photonic network to implement random unitaries |
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