Loss tolerant cross-Kerr enhancement via modulated squeezing

TL;DR

This paper introduces squeezing protocols that amplify cross-Kerr interactions in photonic systems, enabling faster quantum gates and overcoming photon losses, with potential implementations in optical fibers and nanophotonics.

Contribution

It presents a novel method of using quadrature-modulated squeezing to enhance cross-Kerr interactions and improve photonic quantum gate performance.

Findings

Squeezing protocols can amplify cross-Kerr interactions.

Protocols can speed up controlled phase gate implementation.

Overcomes photon loss effects in quantum operations.

Abstract

We develop squeezing protocols to enhance cross-Kerr interactions. We show that through alternating between squeezing along different quadratures of a single photonic mode, the cross-Kerr interaction strength can be generically amplified. As an application of the squeezing protocols we discuss speeding up the deterministic implementation of controlled phase gates in photonic quantum computing architectures. We develop bounds that characterize how fast and strong single-mode squeezing has to be applied to achieve a desired gate error and show that the protocols can overcome photon losses. Finally, we discuss experimental realizations of the squeezing strategies in optical fibers and nanophotonic waveguides.