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Continuous-variable quantum computing architectures based upon the Gottesmann-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) encoding have emerged as a promising candidate because one can achieve fault-tolerance with a probabilistic supply of GKP states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Matthew P. Stafford , Nicolas C. Menicucci

Bosonic quantum error-correcting codes encode logical information in a harmonic oscillator, with the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) and number-phase (NP) codes representing two fundamentally different encoding paradigms. Although both have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Kai-Xuan Wen , Dong-Long Hu , Shengyong Li , Ze-Liang Xiang

Bosonic quantum error correction encodes a logical qubit in an oscillator, avoiding the hardware overhead of large qubit arrays. Among such encodings, Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states are paticularly powerful because their phase-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Zi-Xu Lu , Gang Liu , Matteo Fadel , Jie Li

Generating logical qubits, essential for error detection and correction in quantum computation, remains a critical challenge in continuous-variable (CV) optical quantum information processing. The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code is a…

Shadow tomography is a framework for constructing succinct descriptions of quantum states using randomized measurement bases, called classical shadows, with powerful methods to bound the estimators used. We recast existing experimental…

The main bottleneck for universal quantum computation with traveling light is the preparation of Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill states of sufficient quality. This is an extremely challenging task, experimental as well as theoretical, also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Petr Marek

Quantum error correction (QEC) plays an essential role in fault-tolerantly realizing quantum algorithms of practical interest. Among different approaches to QEC, encoding logical quantum information in harmonic oscillator modes has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Mao Lin , Christopher Chamberland , Kyungjoo Noh

Shadow tomography aims to build a classical description of a quantum state from a sequence of simple random measurements. Physical observables are then reconstructed from the resulting classical shadow. Shadow protocols which use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Sumner N. Hearth , Michael O. Flynn , Anushya Chandran , Chris R. Laumann

Determining the quantum capacity of a noisy quantum channel is an important problem in the field of quantum communication theory. In this work, we consider the Gaussian random displacement channel $N_{\sigma}$, a type of bosonic Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Mao Lin , Kyungjoo Noh

The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code encodes a qubit into a bosonic mode using periodic wavefunctions. This periodicity makes the GKP code a natural setting for the Zak transform, which is tailor-made to provide a simple description for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Giacomo Pantaleoni , Ben Q. Baragiola , Nicolas C. Menicucci

We study the classical simulatability of Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states in combination with arbitrary displacements, a large set of symplectic operations and homodyne measurements. For these types of circuits, neither…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Cameron Calcluth , Alessandro Ferraro , Giulia Ferrini

Gaussian loss channels are of particular importance since they model realistic optical communication channels. Except for special cases, quantum capacity of Gaussian loss channels is not yet known completely. In this paper, we provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Kyungjoo Noh , Victor V. Albert , Liang Jiang

We demonstrate a method for encoding Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) error-correcting qubits with single ultracold atoms trapped in individual sites of a deep optical lattice. Using quantum optimal control protocols, we demonstrate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Harry C. P. Kendell , Giacomo Ferranti , Carrie A. Weidner

Continuous-variable quantum-computing (CVQC) is the most scalable implementation of QC to date but requires non-Gaussian resources to allow exponential speedup and quantum correction, using error encoding such as Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Miller Eaton , Rajveer Nehra , Olivier Pfister

To implement fault-tolerant quantum computation with continuous variables, the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) qubit has been recognized as an important technological element. However,it is still challenging to experimentally generate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Kosuke Fukui , Akihisa Tomita , Atsushi Okamoto , Keisuke Fujii

We initiate the study of state complexity for continuous-variable quantum systems. Concretely, we consider a setup with bosonic modes and auxiliary qubits, where available operations include Gaussian one- and two-mode operations, single-…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Lukas Brenner , Libor Caha , Xavier Coiteux-Roy , Robert Koenig

The Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) code, being information theoretically near optimal for quantum communication over Gaussian thermal-loss optical channels, is likely to be the encoding of choice for advanced quantum networks of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Mohadeseh Azari , Paul Polakos , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan

Superdense coding, the application of entanglement to boost classical communication capacity, is a cornerstone of quantum communication. In this paper, we propose a high-dimensional superdense coding protocol using energy-time entangled…

Quantum technologies, encompassing communication, computation, and metrology, rely on the generation and control of non-Gaussian states of light. These states enable secure quantum communication, fault-tolerant quantum computation, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Ozlem Erkilic , Aritra Das , Biveen Shajilal , Ping Koy Lam , Timothy C. Ralph , Syed M. Assad

We examine the performance of the single-mode GKP code and its concatenation with the toric code for a noise model of Gaussian shifts, or displacement errors. We show how one can optimize the tracking of errors in repeated noisy error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Christophe Vuillot , Hamed Asasi , Yang Wang , Leonid P. Pryadko , Barbara M. Terhal