Environment-Assisted Decoherence Suppression of Optical Non-Gaussian States

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06679v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:54:51 GMT
• Title: Environment-Assisted Decoherence Suppression of Optical Non-Gaussian States
• Abstract summary: We show a Gaussian-only scheme that suppresses loss-induced decoherence for general, unknown optical quantum states.<n>Our results show that the scheme consistently mitigates state degradation, preserving higher fidelity and Wigner negativity than without suppression.<n>This approach can be applied to mitigating a broad class of errors in optical systems and extending quantum memory lifetimes.
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• Abstract: Optical loss is a common bottleneck in photonic quantum information processing, undermining the quantum advantage over classical approaches. Although several countermeasures, such as quantum distillation and error correction, have been proposed, they typically require experimentally demanding non-Gaussian operations. Here, we demonstrate a Gaussian-only scheme that suppresses loss-induced decoherence for general, unknown optical quantum states. By injecting a squeezed vacuum state into an environment of the loss channel and performing feedforward based on environmental monitoring, the scheme effectively suppresses loss-induced noise. Our programmable loop-based optical circuit allows us to implement the scheme for several types of loss-sensitive non-Gaussian states under various loss conditions for up to five steps, and directly compare the results with the unsuppressed case. Our results show that the scheme consistently mitigates state degradation, preserving higher fidelity and Wigner negativity than without suppression. This approach can be applied to mitigating a broad class of errors in optical systems and extending quantum memory lifetimes. Moreover, it is compatible with other loss-suppression techniques and extendable to physical platforms beyond optics, offering a promising route toward reducing the overhead required for fault-tolerant quantum information processing.

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