We discuss how the coined quantum walk on the line or on the circle can be implemented using optical waves. We propose several optical cavity configurations for these implementations.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0305165,
title = {Optical Cavity Implementations of the Quantum Walk},
author = {Peter L. Knight and Eugenio Roldan and J. E. Sipe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0305165},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Revised version to appear in Optics Communications. Important changes concerning: (i) technical details, (ii) the analysis of the experiment of Bouwmeester et al., and (iii) the conclussion section, which is entirely new