Photon catalysis for general multimode multi-photon quantum state preparation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19397v1
• Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:03:35 GMT
• Title: Photon catalysis for general multimode multi-photon quantum state preparation
• Authors: Andrei Aralov, Émilie Gillet, Viet Nguyen, Andrea Cosentino, Mattia Walschaers, Massimo Frigerio,
• Abstract summary: Multimode multiphoton states are at the center of many photonic quantum technologies.<n>We derive a procedure to generate exactly, and with a controlled number of steps, any such state by using only multiport interferometers.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Multimode multiphoton states are at the center of many photonic quantum technologies, from photonic quantum computing to quantum sensing. In this work, we derive a procedure to generate exactly, and with a controlled number of steps, any such state by using only multiport interferometers, photon number resolving detectors, photon additions, and displacements. We achieve this goal by establishing a connection between photonic quantum state engineering and the algebraic problem of symmetric tensor decomposition. This connection allows us to solve the problem by using corresponding results from algebraic geometry and unveils a mechanism of photon catalysis, where photons are injected and subsequently retrieved in measurements, to generate entanglement that cannot be obtained through Gaussian operations. We also introduce a tensor decomposition, that generalizes our method and allows to construct optimal circuits for particular classes of states. As a benchmark, we numerically evaluate our method and compare its performance with state-of-the art results, confirming 100% fidelity on different classes of states.

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