Since the beginning of my second year as a PhD student (now I only have a couple of months left), I’ve been consulting with Xanadu, contributing to various areas of the architecture, such as state preparation, measurement-based quantum computing, and quantum error correction. It’s been fascinating to see these contributions take shape over time, and it’s even more exciting to witness how much progress has been made since then.

The recent Nature paper Scaling and networking a modular photonic quantum computer combines many of the team’s efforts over the past years, presenting all the experimental subsystems necessary to implement universal and fault-tolerant quantum computation in a photonic architecture.