""" Time-domain photonic circuits ============================= *Authors: Fabian Laudenbach, Josh Izaac, Theodor Isacsson, and Nicolas Quesada* In this tutorial, we will introduce the basic concepts of time-domain photonic circuits --- the same technology underpinning Xanadu's :doc:`quantum computational advantage hardware `, Borealis [[#advantage2022]_] --- using the time-domain module of StrawberryFields, ``strawberryfields.tdm``. Time-domain multiplexing allows for the creation of massive quantum systems having millions of entangled modes as shown in a number of recent experimental demonstrations [[#takeda2019]_], [[#yoshikawa2016]_], [[#larsen2019]_], [[#asavanant2019]_]. To motivate this architecture we follow Takeda et al. [[#takeda2019]_] and study the one loop setup shown in the picture below: .. image:: /tutorials/images/oneloop.svg :align: center :width: 75% :target: javascript:void(0); We will first write a short standard StrawberryFields program implementing this. Then we will progressively modify the way this circuit is implemented until we are able to write it directly as a :class:`~strawberryfields.TDMProgram`. Having understood the basics of time-domain programs we will then construct a generic single-loop function that can be used to simulate arbitrary long programs using only two modes! We will use this machinery to investigate bipartite EPR states and then multipartite GHZ states. An important take away of this tutorial is that one can sample efficiently Gaussian circuits containing millions of modes with the equivalent computation effort of sampling Gaussian circuits with just a handful of modes. """ ###################################################################### # # ###################################################################### # An instruction set for the time-domain architecture # --------------------------------------------------- # # To introduce the time domain architecture we will simulate the setup in # the figure. We can summarize the setup as the following set of # intructions: # # 1. The ``i+1`` mode is squeezed by a certain amount ``r``. # 2. The ``i+1`` mode undergoes a beamsplitter transformation with its # preceding mode, labeled by ``i``, by a certain angle ``alpha[i]``. # This beamsplitter has the effect of switching in and out of the loop # the modes ``i+1`` and ``i`` respectively. # 3. The ``i+1`` mode has entered the loop after the beamsplitter # transformation and is rotated by angle ``phi[i]``. # 4. After interacting with the ``i+1`` mode, the mode in the previous # time bin ``i`` leaves the loop and then its rotated quadrature (by angle # ``theta[i]``) is measured using a homodyne detector. # # # # This circuit falls within the time-domain description because we are # implicitly assuming that the modes are flying through the optical elements # (squeezer, beamsplitter, rotation, measurement) in the figure above. # Note that the loop in the figure corresponds physically to a delay line, # typically implemented using propagation in free space or in an optical fiber. # Thus unlike in many other physical implementations # our modes are not labeled by a position in space but by a time label that # tells us when they arrived to a particular optical element. # # Before actually trying to take advantage of the time-domain description # of the circuit we will write a brute force simulation using the # standard :class:`~strawberryfields.Program`. # # We will use ``n`` modes to represent ``n`` timebins and implement the # setup described by the figure using a standard StrawberryFields # program. # # Since we will be using a Gaussian circuit this implies that we will be using # a covariance matrix of size ``2n`` times ``2n`` to represent our state. Thus, # if we have for example ``n=1000`` modes we will have on the order of four million # real numbers stored in memory. We will however, just stick to ``n=20`` for this # concrete example. # import strawberryfields as sf from strawberryfields.ops import Sgate, BSgate, Rgate, MeasureHomodyne import numpy as np ###################################################################### # Below we assume that the parameters of the squeezing gate :math:`(S)` # and the angles of the beamsplitter :math:`(BS)` and rotation :math:`R` # do not change with the timebin. # # We set the seed to facilitate later comparison # since the samples are stochastic. np.random.seed(42) n = 20 r = 1.0 length = n - 1 alpha = [np.pi / 4] * length phi = [0] * length theta = [0] * length prog0 = sf.Program(n) with prog0.context as q: for i in range(n - 1): Sgate(r) | q[i + 1] BSgate(alpha[i]) | (q[i], q[i + 1]) Rgate(phi[i]) | q[i + 1] MeasureHomodyne(theta[i]) | q[i] eng0 = sf.Engine("gaussian") result0 = eng0.run(prog0) ###################################################################### # We can look at an unrolled version of the program above in terms of # a circuit diagram as # # | # # .. image:: /tutorials/images/unrolled.svg # :align: center # :width: 70% # :target: javascript:void(0); # # | # # where, for clarity, we have reduced the number of displayed modes to ``n=5``. # # Finally, we can also look at the samples: print(result0.samples) ###################################################################### # In this program we follow each and every time-bin mode (a total of # ``n=20`` modes) as they progress through the different operations. # However, at most only two modes are interacting at the same time. The # rest of the modes either have not been squeezed (and thus are in the # vacuum state) or have been measured (and thus reset to vacuum). # # Reducing simulation resources: shifting modes # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # # Instead of keeping track of the modes using labels telling us their time # bin, we can label them in terms of the position that they occupy in the # circuit above. A convenient choice of labels is to look at the two modes # that enter into the beamsplitter. We can use ``0`` for the mode that # enters in the top port of the beamsplitter and which has been # circulating in the loop. We can use the label ``1`` for the mode that # has just been squeezed and is about to enter the beamsplitter in the # bottom port. These two modes, which have fixed positions in the circuit, # we call concurrent modes; they are, at all times, the only two modes # that are not in vacuum in the circuit. # # To make a closed loop of modes going in and out of the circuit one can # recycle the mode that is measured (mode ``0``) and plug it back in as a # vacuum mode re-entering the circuit. As it turns out the Gaussian # backend of Strawberry Fields automatically resets to vacuum a mode that # has been measured thus the resetting is automatically taken care of. # # To implement the recycling we will need a function that takes the mode # that is measured (which sits at the beginning of the mode list ``q``) # and moves it back to the end of the list after it is measured. # This functionality is # provided by the function ``shift_by`` in the module # ``strawberryfields.tdm`` as illustrated below: # from strawberryfields.tdm import shift_by l = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] shift_by(l, 1) ###################################################################### # We are now ready to simulate an ``n=20`` mode circuit using only two # concurrent modes: # np.random.seed(42) # We set the seed to facilitate comparison prog1 = sf.Program(2) n = 20 with prog1.context as q: for i in range(n - 1): Sgate(r) | q[1] BSgate(alpha[i]) | (q[0], q[1]) Rgate(phi[i]) | q[1] MeasureHomodyne(theta[i]) | q[0] # Note that only position 0 of q is measured q = shift_by(q, 1) eng1 = sf.Engine("gaussian") result1 = eng1.run(prog1) print(result1.samples) ###################################################################### # Even though we measured ``n-1`` times we only get 2 values. This is # because the ``samples`` attribute only contains the last ever measured # value(s) in our modes; since we only have two concurrent modes we only get # two numbers. To obtain the complete sample record we use the attribute # ``samples_dict``, which contains all measured samples inside of a dict. # print(result1.samples_dict) ###################################################################### # Note that we obtain the same samples as in ``result0.samples`` except # that they are ordered in a slightly different arrangement. We can put # them in the correct order by using ``reshape_samples`` # from strawberryfields.tdm import reshape_samples reshape_samples(result1.samples_dict, [0], [2], n - 1) ###################################################################### # The second argument ``[0]`` gives the label of the # concurrent mode where a measurement happened, # while the third argument ``[2]`` indicates, for this simple one loop program, # that there are only two concurrent modes in a single loop. # Finally, the last argument gives the information on the number of # time bins measured. Notice that it is ``n-1`` and not ``n``. ###################################################################### # All the measurement outcomes are now attached to the only mode # that we ever measured, namely ``0``. Note that in ``result1.samples_dict`` # the samples are attached to different modes. This is an artifact of the # recycling. # ###################################################################### # By recycling the modes we are now able to simulate very long circuits # with just two modes. Going back to our hypothetical one thousand mode example, # we would need to keep in memory millions of real numbers, instead by using # a time-domain strategy where we only worry about concurrent modes we only ever # need to consider covariances matrices of size four by four, which results # in massive speed and memory gains! # # # The TDMProgram # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # # Rather than performing the mode shifting and sample reshaping manually, # Strawberry Fields provides the :class:`~strawberryfields.TDMProgram` program class # for automating this procedure, making it easy to construct and simulate time-domain # multiplexing algorithms. # # In this class one needs to specify the number of # active modes (``N=2`` for the example above) and then the class takes # care of automatically shifting the modes and reshaping the samples. Thus # the program above could have been rewritten as # np.random.seed(42) # We set the seed to facilitate comparison N = 2 # Number of concurrent modes prog2 = sf.TDMProgram(N=N) with prog2.context(alpha, phi, theta) as (p, q): Sgate(r, 0) | q[1] BSgate(p[0]) | (q[0], q[1]) Rgate(p[1]) | q[1] MeasureHomodyne(p[2]) | q[0] eng2 = sf.Engine("gaussian") result2 = eng2.run(prog2) print(result2.samples) ###################################################################### # In a ``TDMProgram`` we need to specify the number of concurrent modes # ``N``. Then we pass to the ``context`` the sequences of # the different parameters that will be used in the program, in our case # the lists ``alpha``, ``phi`` and ``theta``. The three variables in the # list ``p`` will cycle through the corresponding values of these lists. # For example, ``p[0]`` will go through the values of ``alpha`` as the # simulation progresses. # ###################################################################### # A single-loop architecture # -------------------------- # # We will now write a simple function that # encapsulates the single loop architecture using a ``TDMprogram``. Then we # will use it to generate samples of interesting quantum states and # investigate their correlations. # def singleloop(r, alpha, phi, theta, shots): """Single loop program. Args: r (float): squeezing parameter alpha (Sequence[float]): beamsplitter angles phi (Sequence[float]): rotation angles theta (Sequence[float]): homodyne measurement angles shots (int): number of times the circuit is sampled Returns: list: homodyne samples from the single loop simulation """ prog = sf.TDMProgram(N=2) with prog.context(alpha, phi, theta) as (p, q): Sgate(r, 0) | q[1] BSgate(p[0]) | (q[0], q[1]) Rgate(p[1]) | q[1] MeasureHomodyne(p[2]) | q[0] eng = sf.Engine("gaussian") result = eng.run(prog, shots=shots) # We only want the samples from concurrent mode 0 return result.samples_dict[0] ###################################################################### # We can use the function we just developed to reproduce for the fourth # time the results of our very simple experiment: # np.random.seed(42) # We set the seed to facilitate comparison singleloop(r, alpha, phi, theta, 1) # We want 1 shot ###################################################################### # Generation of EPR states # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # ###################################################################### # With the single loop architecture we can easily generate # Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) states [[#einstein1935]_]. In this section we will create # this bipartite state and probe it using homodyne measurements. # r = 2.0 alpha = [np.pi / 4, 0] phi = [0, np.pi / 2] theta = [0, 0] # We will measure the positions by setting theta = [0,0] shots = 2500 samplesEPRxx = singleloop(r, alpha, phi, theta, shots) ###################################################################### # To process the samples we simply transpose the array in which they # are stored. This gives us easier access to the values corresponding # to the two halves of an EPR state. samplesxx = samplesEPRxx.T x0 = samplesxx[0] x1 = samplesxx[1] # We now want to look at the samples import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.figure(figsize=(5, 5)) plt.plot(x0, x1, ".") plt.xlabel(r"$x_0$") plt.ylabel(r"$x_{1}$") plt.show() ###################################################################### # We can put this observation in more quantitative terms by looking at the # variance of :math:`x_1-x_0`: # sample_var_xx = np.var(x0 - x1) sample_var_xx ###################################################################### # As it turns out the variance of the operator :math:`N_1 = x_1 - x_0` is # related to the amount of squeezing used to prepare the state. One can # easily find that :math:`\text{Var}(N_1) = 2 e^{-2 r}`. # expected_var_xx = 2 * np.exp(-2 * r) expected_var_xx ###################################################################### # In the literature, the operator :math:`N` for which one finds a relation # like the one above, is called a *Nullifier* of the state. A way to # understand this name is that the variance of this operator approaches # zero (or *nullifies*) as the squeezing in the state grows [[#takeda2019]_]. # ###################################################################### # The EPR state has a second nullifier, :math:`N_2 = p_1+p_2`. We can # confirm this by running our circuit again, but this time measuring # in the :math:`P` quadrature # theta = [ np.pi / 2, np.pi / 2, ] # Now we homodyne the p-quadratures by setting thr angle to pi/2 samplesEPRpp = singleloop(r, alpha, phi, theta, shots) samplespp = samplesEPRpp.T p0 = samplespp[0] p1 = samplespp[1] plt.figure(figsize=(5, 5)) plt.plot(p0, p1, ".") plt.xlabel(r"$p_0$") plt.ylabel(r"$p_{1}$") plt.show() ###################################################################### # We now calculate the sample variance and the expected variance, # except for the effect of finite size statistics, they are almost identical # np.var(p0 + p1), 2 * np.exp(-2 * r) ###################################################################### # Generating GHZ states # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # # The GHZ states (named after Greenberger, Horne and Zeilinger) [[#greenberger2007]_] can be # thought as an :math:`n`-partite generalization of the EPR states [[#vanloock1999]_]. We # will prepare these states using the single loop architecture # encapsulated in the function ``singleloop`` defined before. # n = 10 vac_modes = 1 # This is an ancilla mode that is used at the beginning of the protocol shots = 1 r = 4 alpha = [ np.arccos(np.sqrt(1 / (n - i + 1))) if i != n + 1 else 0 for i in range(n + vac_modes) ] alpha[0] = 0.0 phi = [0] * (n + vac_modes) phi[0] = np.pi / 2 theta = [0] * ( n + vac_modes ) # We will measure first all the states in the X quadrature singleloop(r, alpha, phi, theta, shots) ###################################################################### # Note that all the *sampled* positions are the # same. We can also sample our state in the :math:`p` basis # theta = [np.pi / 2] * (n + vac_modes) # Now we measure in p quadrature samplep = singleloop(r, alpha, phi, theta, shots) samplep ###################################################################### # There does not seem to be anything interesting going on when we look at # the :math:`p` quadratures, yet if we consider the sum of the sampled # values of the momenta we find that the momenta add up to approximately # zero: # np.sum(samplep[1:]) # Note that we exclude the first element, the "vacuum mode" ###################################################################### # Indeed, like for the EPR state defined before, one can introduce # nullifiers for the GHZ states such as # :math:`N_k = x_k - x_n` for :math:`1 \leq k < n`, # ###################################################################### # We now generate many samples and statistically verify that the variances # of the nullifier decay exponentially with the amount of squeezing # # Collect x-samples shots = 1000 theta = [0] * (n + vac_modes) samplesGHZx = singleloop(r, alpha, phi, theta, shots) nullifier_X = lambda sample: (sample - sample[-1])[vac_modes:-1] val_nullifier_X = np.var([nullifier_X(x) for x in samplesGHZx], axis=0) ###################################################################### # The sample variances of the X nullifiers are val_nullifier_X ###################################################################### # While their expected value is 2 * np.exp(-2 * r) ###################################################################### # Conclusion and final remarks # ---------------------------- # We have introduced the basic ideas of time-domain circuits by gradually # transforming a simple one-loop ``n``-mode optical setup from a brute # force simulator to a time-domain simulator using the :class:`~strawberryfields.TDMProgram`. # Using the later class we achieve significant computational savings: a brute force # Gaussian simulator requires resources scaling quadratically with the number of modes, # a time-domain approach requires only constant (and very modest) resources. # We have used this highly efficient implementation to study the correlations # of EPR and GHZ states, the canonical bipartite and multipartite entangled # states in the continuous-variable domain. ###################################################################### # References # ---------- # # .. 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