The Optical Frequency Comb as a One-Way Quantum Computer

2008/11/30 by Steven T Flammia, Steven T. Flammia, Nicolas C. Menicucci +2 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Photonic and Optical Devices #Quantum Information and Cryptography #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0953-4075/42/11/114009

published as J. Phys. B 42, 114009 (2009) · 20 pages, 8 figures. v2 corrects minor error in published version

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Abstract

In the one-way model of quantum computing, quantum algorithms are implemented using only measurements on an entangled initial state. Much of the hard work is done up-front when creating this universal resource, known as a cluster state, on which the measurements are made. Here we detail a new proposal for a scalable method of creating cluster states using only a single multimode optical parametric oscillator (OPO). The method generates a continuous-variable cluster state that is universal for quantum computation and encoded in the quadratures of the optical frequency comb of the OPO. This work expands on the presentation in Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 130501 (2008).

Citations

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• Encoding a qubit in an oscillator
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• Resource-Efficient Linear Optical Quantum Computation
• Efficient Classical Simulation of Continuous Variable Quantum Information Processes

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