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One-Way Quantum Computing in the Optical Frequency Comb

Nicolas C. Menicucci, Steven T. Flammia, and Olivier Pfister
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 130501 – Published 22 September 2008
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Abstract

One-way quantum computing allows any quantum algorithm to be implemented easily using just measurements. The difficult part is creating the universal resource, a cluster state, on which the measurements are made. We propose a scalable method that uses a single, multimode optical parametric oscillator (OPO). The method is very efficient and generates a continuous-variable cluster state, universal for quantum computation, with quantum information encoded in the quadratures of the optical frequency comb of the OPO.

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  • Received 7 May 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.130501

©2008 American Physical Society

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Published 22 September 2008

Laser beams made up of millions of sharply defined and coherently locked optical frequencies, called optical frequency combs, may provide a way to implement a powerful quantum computer.

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Nicolas C. Menicucci1,2, Steven T. Flammia3, and Olivier Pfister4

  • 1Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
  • 3Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5 Canada
  • 4Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, USA

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Vol. 101, Iss. 13 — 26 September 2008

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