Design and Benchmarking of a Quantum Photonic Chip

Abstract

We present the design and benchmarking of RP000, a quantum photonic processor capable of encoding a quantum system in the degrees of freedom of single photons, based on standard CMOS-compatible manufacturing processes, and working at room temperature. We benchmark it against machine learning tasks, evaluating three quantum-classical architectures of increasing complexity. Our experimental results and simulations show that RP000 achieves higher accuracy than classical networks of comparable size in multiple use cases. Compared to a superconducting quantum processor, RP000 exhibits superior noise tolerance. These findings demonstrate that RP000 can provide a scalable route toward efficient quantum applications.

Accepted at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)