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Quantum computation with optical coherent states

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We show that quantum computation circuits using coherent states as the logical qubits can be constructed from simple linear networks, conditional photon measurements and "small" coherent superposition resource states.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0306004,
  title  = {Quantum computation with optical coherent states},
  author = {T. C. Ralph and A. Gilchrist and G. J. Milburn and W. J. Munro and S. Glancy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0306004},
  year   = {2009}
}