By encoding a qudit in a harmonic oscillator and investigating the d --> infinity limit, we give an entirely new realization of continuous-variable quantum computation. The generalized Pauli group is generated by number and phase operators for harmonic oscillators.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0208008,
title = {From Qubits to Continuous-Variable Quantum Computation},
author = {Barry C Sanders and Stephen D. Bartlett and Hubert de Guise},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0208008},
year = {2007}
}
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7 pages, presented at ICSSUR'01 (Boston, MA, USA, June 2001)