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Quantum computers require technologies that offer both sufficient control over coherent quantum phenomena and minimal spurious interactions with the environment. We show, that photons confined to photonic crystals, and in particular to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dimitris G. Angelakis , Marcelo Franca Santos , Vassilis Yannopapas , Artur Ekert

The initial proposal for scalable optical quantum computing required single photon sources, linear optical elements such as beamsplitters and phaseshifters, and photon detection. Here we demonstrate a two qubit gate using indistinguishable…

If suitable quantum optical interactions were available, transforming optical field mode operators in a nonlinear fashion, the all-photonics platform could be one of the strongest contenders for realizing a quantum computer. Unlike other,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Niklas Budinger , Akira Furusawa , Peter van Loock

Photonics is a promising architecture for the realisation of quantum information processing, since the two-photon interaction, or non-linearity, necessary to build logical gates can efficiently be realised by the use of interference with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Thomas Jennewein , Marco Barbieri , Andrew G. White

Quantum computing aims at exploiting quantum phenomena to efficiently perform computations that are unfeasible even for the most powerful classical supercomputers. Among the promising technological approaches, photonic quantum computing…

Quantum computing is a disruptive paradigm widely believed to be capable of solving classically intractable problems. However, the route toward full-scale quantum computers is obstructed by immense challenges associated with the scalability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Bo-Han Wu , Rafael N. Alexander , Shuai Liu , Zheshen Zhang

Photons have been a flagship system for studying quantum mechanics, advancing quantum information science, and developing quantum technologies. Quantum entanglement, teleportation, quantum key distribution and early quantum computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-12 Sergei Slussarenko , Geoff J. Pryde

We use one photon to simulate an n-qubit quantum system for the first time. We propose a new scheme to realize universal quantum computation in polynomial time O(n^5). A generating set of gates can be realized with high accuracy in the lab.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-23 Xiaoqin Gao , Zhengwei Liu

Fusion-based quantum computing (FBQC) offers a powerful approach to building a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer using photonic components -- single-photon sources, linear-optical circuits, single-photon detectors, and optical…

Spontaneous emission and the inelastic scattering of photons are two natural processes usually associated with decoherence and the reduction in the capacity to process quantum information. Here we show that when suitably detected, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 Marcelo F. Santos , Marcelo Terra Cunha , Rafael Chaves , Andre R. R. Carvalho

A single photon source is a key enabling technology in device-independent quantum communication, quantum simulation for instance boson sampling, linear optics-based and measurement-based quantum computing. These applications involve many…

In 2001 all-optical quantum computing became feasible with the discovery that scalable quantum computing is possible using only single photon sources, linear optical elements, and single photon detectors. Although it was in principle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-12 Jeremy L. O'Brien

Photons are a natural resource in quantum information, and the last decade showed significant progress in high-quality single photon generation and detection. Furthermore, photonic qubits are easy to manipulate and do not require…

We propose a novel architecture for fault-tolerant quantum computing that incorporates strong single-photon nonlinearities into a photonic GHZ-measurement-based architecture. The nonlinearities substantially reduce resource overheads…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Maike Ostmann , Joshua Nunn , Alex E. Jones

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 discuss the use of the transverse spatial degrees of freedom of photons propagating in the paraxial approximation for continuous variable information processing. Given the wide variety of linear optical devices available, a diverse range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-16 D. S. Tasca , R. M. Gomes , F. Toscano , P. H. Souto Ribeiro , S. P. Walborn

Photonics represents one of the most promising approaches to large-scale quantum computation with millions of qubits and billions of gates, owing to the potential for room-temperature operation, high clock speeds, miniaturization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Paul Renault , Patrick Yard , Raphael C. Pooser , Miller Eaton , Hussain Asim Zaidi

Universal quantum computing requires an architecture that supports both linear circuits and, crucially, strong nonlinear resources. For quantum photonic systems, integrating such nonlinearities with scalable linear circuitry has been a…

Quantum computers are expected to be able to solve mathematical problems that cannot be solved using conventional computers. Many of these problems are of practical importance, especially in the areas of cryptography and secure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. B. Pittman , B. C. Jacobs , J. D. Franson

Fusion-based photonic quantum computing architectures rely on two primitives: i) near-deterministic generation and control of constant-size entangled states and ii) probabilistic entangling measurements (photonic fusion gates) between…