A major challenge in optical quantum processing is implementing large, stable interferometers. Here we propose a virtual, measurement-based interferometer that is programmed on the fly solely by the choice of homodyne measurement angles. The effects of finite squeezing are captured as uniform amplitude damping. We compare our proposal to existing (physical) interferometers and consider its performance for BosonSampling, which could demonstrate post-classical computational power in the near future. We prove its efficiency in time and squeezing (energy) in this setting.
@article{arxiv.1606.00446,
title = {Measurement-Based Linear Optics},
author = {Rafael N. Alexander and Natasha C. Gabay and Peter P. Rohde and Nicolas C. Menicucci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.00446},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
(v2) consistent with published version; (v1) 6 pages, 5 figures