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Given a source of two coherent state superpositions with small separation in a traveling wave optical setting, we show that by interference and balanced homodyne measurement it is possible to conditionally prepare a symmetrically placed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-23 P. Adam , T. Kiss , Z. Darázs , I. Jex

Optical cat state plays an essential role in quantum computation and quantum metrology. Here, we experimentally quantify quantum coherence of an optical cat state by means of relative entropy and l_1 norm of coherence in Fock basis based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-07 Miao Zhang , Haijun Kang , Meihong Wang , Fengyi Xu , Xiaolong Su , Kunchi Peng

We introduce schemes for linear-optical quantum state generation. A quantum state generator is a device that prepares a desired quantum state using product inputs from photon sources, linear-optical networks, and postselection using photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. M. VanMeter , P. Lougovski , D. B. Uskov , K. Kieling , J. Eisert , Jonathan P. Dowling

We describe a linear quantum optical circuit capable of demonstrating a simple quantum error correction code in a four photon experiment.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. C. Ralph

Optical quantum computing is a promising approach for achieving large-scale quantum computation. While Gaussian operations have been successfully scaled, the inherently weak nonlinearity in optics makes generating highly non-Gaussian states…

Sharing information coherently between nodes of a quantum network is at the foundation of distributed quantum information processing. In this scheme, the computation is divided into subroutines and performed on several smaller quantum…

Recently, it was realized that use of the properties of quantum mechanics might speed up certain computations dramatically. Interest in quantum computation has since been growing. One of the main difficulties of realizing quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Peter W. Shor

Generation of arbitrary superposition of vacuum and one-photon states using quantum scissors device (QSD) is studied. The device allows the preparation of states by truncating an input coherent light. Optimum values of the intensity of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-04 Sahin Kaya Ozdemir , Adam Miranowicz , Masato Koashi , Nobuyuki Imoto

We present a scheme of quantum repeater that uses entangled multimode coherent states which are obtained by electro-optic modulation of symmetric and antisymmetric Schr\"odinger cat states. In this method subcarrier modes of the phase…

We consider an optomechanical quantum system composed of a single cavity mode interacting with N mechanical resonators. We propose a scheme for generating continuous-variable graph states of arbitrary size and shape, including the so-called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 O. Houhou , H. Aissaoui , A. Ferraro

In the one-way model of quantum computing, quantum algorithms are implemented using only measurements on an entangled initial state. Much of the hard work is done up-front when creating this universal resource, known as a cluster state, on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-19 Steven T. Flammia , Nicolas C. Menicucci , Oliver Pfister

Gaussian bipartite states are basic tools for the realization of quantum information protocols with continuous variables. Their complete characterization is obtained by the reconstruction of the corresponding covariance matrix. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 D. Buono , G. Nocerino , V. D'Auria , A. Porzio , S. Olivares , M. G. A. Paris

We propose an efficient approach for deterministically generating scalable cluster states with photons. This approach involves unitary transformations performed on atoms coupled to optical cavities. Its operation cost scales linearly with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-28 Hefeng Wang , Chui-Ping Yang , Franco Nori

We propose two experimental schemes for producing coherent-state superpositions which approximate different nonclassical states conditionally in traveling optical fields. Although these setups are constructed of a small number of linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Emese Molnar , Peter Adam , Gabor Mogyorosi , Matyas Mechler

Photonic quantum computing has gained significant interest in recent years due to its potential for scaling to large numbers of qubits. A critical requirement for fault-tolerant quantum computation is the reliable generation of non-Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 S. Ismailzadeh , B. Abedi Ravan

The well studied quantum optical Schr\"{o}dinger cat state is a superposition of two distinguishable states, with quantum coherence between these macroscopically distinguishable states being of foundational and, in the context of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Namrata Shukla , Naeem Akhtar , Barry C. Sanders

The cubic phase state constitutes a nonlinear resource that is essential for universal quantum computing protocols. However, constructing such non-classical states faces many challenges. In this work, we present a protocol for generating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Harsh Kashyap , Denis A. Kopylov , Polina R. Sharapova

Cat states and Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states play a key role in quantum computation and communication with continuous variables. The creation of such states relies on strong nonlinear light-matter interactions, which are widely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Raphael Dahan , Gefen Baranes , Alexey Gorlach , Ron Ruimy , Nicholas Rivera , Ido Kaminer

Quantum state tomography is an essential component of modern quantum technology. In application to continuous-variable harmonic-oscilator systems, such as the electromagnetic field, existing tomography methods typically reconstruct the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-09 Ekaterina Fedotova , Nikolai Kuznetsov , Egor Tiunov , A. E. Ulanov , A. I. Lvovsky

We propose a theoretical protocol to implement multiqubit geometric gates (i.e., the M{\o}lmer-S{\o}rensen gate) using photonic cat-state qubits. These cat-state qubits stored in high-$Q$ resonators are promising for hardware-efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Ye-Hong Chen , Roberto Stassi , Wei Qin , Adam Miranowicz , Franco Nori