Automated discovery of high-probability heralded schemes for path-entangled states

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25501v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:36:48 GMT
• Title: Automated discovery of high-probability heralded schemes for path-entangled states
• Abstract summary: We use AI techniques to discover heralded linear-optical schemes for path-entangled states.<n>Our results provide both a theoretical advance in photonic heralding and a route towards a substantial leap in experimentally accessible multiphoton entanglement.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Entangled states of light lie at the heart of photonic quantum technologies, from distributed quantum communication to quantum-enhanced measurement and information processing. Their practical generation, however, remains constrained by the weak interactions between photons, which make the deterministic assembly of large multiphoton entangled states a central challenge in quantum optics. In this work, we use AI techniques to discover heralded linear-optical schemes for path-entangled states and show that the resulting solutions can be elevated from individual circuits to a new scalable family. This family contains previously known constructions as special cases while generally providing exponential and super-exponential improvements over those, and its extension to broader classes of target states shows how automated discovery can reveal transferable physical understanding. By presenting compact experimental proposals for large path-entangled states, our results provide both a theoretical advance in photonic heralding and a route towards a substantial leap in experimentally accessible multiphoton entanglement.

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