Abstract
Physics simulators can support the discovery of quantum experiments by predicting the states generated by experimental configurations. When these simulators are computationally expensive, repeated simulator calls can limit the search for experiments that generate a desired quantum state. Here, we develop a physics-inspired polynomial neural surrogate for PyTheus, a graph-based quantum-optics simulator, to predict quantum states and use it to design quantum experiments. Its polynomial activations are motivated by the relation between graph perfect matchings and the resulting state amplitudes. We train separate surrogate models for four-, six-, and eight-photon systems and show that they achieve higher prediction accuracy with fewer trainable parameters than standard multilayer perceptrons. We then use the trained surrogates for inverse design of GHZ, W, and linear-cluster states. For the larger systems, the surrogates also enable faster inverse design than direct optimization with PyTheus. These results suggest that incorporating the underlying physics into neural surrogates can provide an efficient approach to quantum experiment design.
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APA 7
Chaurasiya, R., & Gu, X. (2026). Polynomial neural surrogates for designing photonic quantum experiments. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/polynomial-neural-surrogates-for-designing-photonic-quantum-experiments
MLA 9
Chaurasiya, Rohit, and Xuemei Gu. "Polynomial neural surrogates for designing photonic quantum experiments." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/polynomial-neural-surrogates-for-designing-photonic-quantum-experiments.
Chicago (author–date)
Chaurasiya, Rohit, and Xuemei Gu. 2026. "Polynomial neural surrogates for designing photonic quantum experiments." https://omanscience.com/en/articles/polynomial-neural-surrogates-for-designing-photonic-quantum-experiments.
Harvard
Chaurasiya, R. and Gu, X. (2026) 'Polynomial neural surrogates for designing photonic quantum experiments', Available at: https://omanscience.com/en/articles/polynomial-neural-surrogates-for-designing-photonic-quantum-experiments.
Vancouver
Chaurasiya R, Gu X. Polynomial neural surrogates for designing photonic quantum experiments. https://omanscience.com/en/articles/polynomial-neural-surrogates-for-designing-photonic-quantum-experiments
IEEE
R. Chaurasiya, and X. Gu, "Polynomial neural surrogates for designing photonic quantum experiments," https://omanscience.com/en/articles/polynomial-neural-surrogates-for-designing-photonic-quantum-experiments.