The world’s first scalable, connection, photonic quantum computer prototype has been developed

Overview of Aurora system and main module. Credit: Nature (2025). Doi: 10.1038/S41586-024-08406-9
Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., a Canadian engineer, physicist, and computer specialist, has announced what is the world’s first photonic quantum computer prototype.
In a paper published in Nature, the group describes how to design and build modulated quantum computers, and to be able to scaling it to any size.
As scientists around the world continue to work on the development of really useful quantum computers, such machines continue to come up with design ideas. With this new initiative, the research team has built a quantum computer based on modular design. Their idea was to build a single basic box using only a few gets for the simplest application. You can add another box as needed, and then add another box. Use all boxes that work together like a network as one computer.
When each box or quantum server rack is added, the processing capacity increases. The team further suggests that thousands of racks can be linked through a fiber cable to create large -scale quantum computers with large -scale processing capabilities. In addition, researchers have created a photon base for the entire system and eliminated the need to connect the optical -based parts to conventional electronic -based parts.
Researchers have built a prototype to test their ideas. This was a network of four server racks using 84 aperture, resulting in a computer with 12 physical cubits. The first rack is slightly different from the other three.


Aurora system photo. Credit: Nature (2025). Doi: 10.1038/S41586-024-08406-9
Holding the input laser, the other three house quantum components are divided into five major sub -systems. Source where Kubit based on photon is created. A buffering system that saves Qubits. A refining place that multiply QUBITS to improve quality and create an intertwined kit pair. Routing that supports entanglement and clustering. The QPU creates a completed space link in the cluster state and executes other functions. Note that they do not need to cool down because the system is completely photonic, that is, at room temperature.
The research team tests the system by creating a unique type of intertwining state with billions of mode, and is satisfied with the results, and their systems are highly fault allowed and complex and large -scale calculations. Suggests that it can be executed.
Details: H. AGHAEE RAD ET Al, modular photonic quantum computer, Nature (2025) scaling and network. Doi: 10.1038/S41586-024-08406-9
Zanadu: Xanadu.ai/blog/lighting-up-he.
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