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One-Way Quantum Computing in the Optical Frequency Comb

Quantum Physics 2008-10-11 v2

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 radically new approach: 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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@article{arxiv.0804.4468,
  title  = {One-Way Quantum Computing in the Optical Frequency Comb},
  author = {Nicolas C. Menicucci and Steven T. Flammia and Olivier Pfister},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.4468},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

v2: changed author order; 4 pages, 3 figures; supplemental movie available at http://faculty.virginia.edu/quantum/torus.mov

R2 v1 2026-06-21T10:35:18.941Z