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Demonstration of Cluster State Shaping and Quantum Erasure for Continuous Variables

Quantum Physics 2010-11-15 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally how to remove an arbitrary node from a continuous-variable cluster state and how to shorten any quantum wires of such a state. These two basic operations, performed in an unconditional fashion, are a manifestation of quantum erasure and can be employed to obtain various graph states from an initial cluster state. Starting with a sufficiently large cluster, the resulting graph states can then be used for universal quantum information processing. In the experiment, all variations of this cluster-shaping are demonstrated on a four-mode linear cluster state through homodyne measurements and feedforward.

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@article{arxiv.1006.2225,
  title  = {Demonstration of Cluster State Shaping and Quantum Erasure for Continuous Variables},
  author = {Yoshichika Miwa and Ryuji Ukai and Jun-ichi Yoshikawa and Radim Filip and Peter van Loock and Akira Furusawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.2225},
  year   = {2010}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures