Minimal ancilla for boosting type-I photonic fusion
Abstract
Fusion gates enable the creation of large entangled photonic states for linear-optical quantum computing and communication protocols. However, their success probability is limited to 1/2 without additional photonic resources. Previous schemes for boosting type-I fusion have used four ancillary single photons or a two-qubit Bell state, whose preparation is probabilistic and resource intensive. Here we propose a boosted type-I fusion gate using only two independent ancillary single photons and no entangled ancillary input. It achieves a direct success probability of 5/8, matching that of the previous four-single-photon proposal while using half as many ancillary photons. The circuit is predominantly passive, with a single active element that applies a phase shift or swaps two modes according to intermediate photodetection outcomes. Unlike the previous schemes, successful outputs occupy fixed modes and require no further conditional output routing. In particular, we show that the gate is more robust to heralded ancillary-photon loss than previously proposed boosted gates and reduces the average number of single photons required to generate a six-qubit ring graph state by more than 4.6% compared with other type-I schemes. It therefore offers a resource-efficient primitive for scalable fusion-based photonic quantum information processing.
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BibTeX
@misc{melkozerov2026minimal,
title = {{Minimal ancilla for boosting type-I photonic fusion}},
author = {A. A. Melkozerov and S. S. Straupe and M. Yu. Saygin},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.34257},
eprint = {2610.34257},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34257},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Minimal ancilla for boosting type-I photonic fusion
AU - A. A. Melkozerov
AU - S. S. Straupe
AU - M. Yu. Saygin
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/25
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.34257
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34257
AB - Fusion gates enable the creation of large entangled photonic states for linear-optical quantum computing and communication protocols. However, their success probability is limited to 1/2 without additional photonic resources. Previous schemes for boosting type-I fusion have used four ancillary single photons or a two-qubit Bell state, whose preparation is probabilistic and resource intensive. Here we propose a boosted type-I fusion gate using only two independent ancillary single photons and no entangled ancillary input. It achieves a direct success probability of 5/8, matching that of the previous four-single-photon proposal while using half as many ancillary photons. The circuit is predominantly passive, with a single active element that applies a phase shift or swaps two modes according to intermediate photodetection outcomes. Unlike the previous schemes, successful outputs occupy fixed modes and require no further conditional output routing. In particular, we show that the gate is more robust to heralded ancillary-photon loss than previously proposed boosted gates and reduces the average number of single photons required to generate a six-qubit ring graph state by more than 4.6% compared with other type-I schemes. It therefore offers a resource-efficient primitive for scalable fusion-based photonic quantum information processing.
ER -