Towards Quantum Computing With Light

Caterina Taballione, F. H. B. Somhorst

Nobuyuki Imoto, B. Hüttner, Kazuhiro Igeta

Marcus Blackwell

This short paper builds on the Three States of Light theory (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20132207). It explores the implications for quantum computing, showing that heat generation is a property of Crystallized Light (matter-based qubits), not Bound Light (photonic quibits). Photonic quantum computing is therefore intrinsically lossless. A speculative third regime (Unbound Light) would generate zero heat. The paper does not claim to invent photonic quantum computing. It cites prior work (KLM 2001, O'Brien 2007, Rudolf 2017, etc.) and uses the Three States of Light framework to explain why photonic qubits have inherent advantages over matter-based qubits. Keywords: quantum computing, photonic quantum computing, three states of light, Bound Light, Crystallized Light, heat dissipation, Unbound Light Version 1 - May 12, 2026

Ahmed El-Halawany, Michael Leuenberger

Pravir Malik, Lalitha Nallamothula

The four quantum phenomena of superposition, entanglement, tunneling, and annealing are envisioned to give quantum computing the ability to solve complex problems in very low-resolution times as compared with classical computers. These four phenomena are closely related to the light-based properties of presence, knowledge, power, and harmony, central to a multilayered light-based model of reality that also offers alternative foundation for thinking about quanta and quantum computation. In this model, it is not a random process from infinite superposed possibilities that exist at the quantum-level as supposed by the Copenhagen Interpretation, and as assumed as the foundation of the infinite processing capability of quantum objects by contemporary pioneers of quantum computing. Rather, the infinite processing capability is due to a more ordered display of superposition, entanglement, tunneling and annealing: superposition, as an ordered concord of light's property of presence stacked in logical arrangement by layer of light; entanglement, as a display of light's property of knowledge that occurs at a speed faster than the known speed of light; tunneling, as a display of light's property of power that allows toggling between different “realities” in layers of light; and annealing, expressing light's property of harmony, to find an ideal minimum state among a number of realities. These four quantum phenomena derivative from an implicit and natural unity within light, engineered to maintain that unity externally, will confer quantum computation with the possibility of extraordinary processing power.

Pravir Malik

The very basis of modern-day quantum computing that relies on infinite number of superposed quantum states, on probability, on observable measurement that brings things into reality, is bought into question in the Light-centered Interpretation of quanta as discussed in this article. From the point of view of the Light-centered interpretation superposition, entanglement, and reality take on a different meaning and the infinite processing power allegedly true of quantum states, likely does not exist in the manner in which it has been conceived. Yet quantum computation as currently conceived is expected to be a bedrock technology for the future. This article will examine the basis for this, and will begin to contrast the claim of contemporary quantum computer technologists with the light-based quantum computation paradigm as introduced in this paper.