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Continuous-variable (CV) systems have shown remarkable potential for quantum computation, particularly excelling in scalability and error correction through bosonic encoding. Within this framework, the foundational notion of computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Sheron Blair , Francesco Arzani , Giulia Ferrini , Alessandro Ferraro

In order to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing, we make use of quantum error correction schemes designed to protect the logical information of the system from decoherence. A promising way to preserve such information is to use the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Marc-Antoine Roy , Thomas Pousset , Baptiste Royer

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

We construct stabilizer states and error-correcting codes on combinations of discrete- and continuous-variable systems, generalizing the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) quantum lattice formalism. Our framework absorbs the discrete phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Sayan Chakraborty , Victor V. Albert

We initiate the study of neural-network quantum state algorithms for analyzing continuous-variable lattice quantum systems in first quantization. A simple family of continuous-variable trial wavefunctons is introduced which naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 James Stokes , Saibal De , Shravan Veerapaneni , Giuseppe Carleo

Learning quantum state properties is both a fundamental and practical problem in quantum information theory. Classical shadows have emerged as an efficient method for estimating properties of unknown quantum states, with rigorous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Hugo Thomas , Ulysse Chabaud , Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau

We introduce a novel formulation of a Generalized Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) state that resolves all of its foundational pathologies, such as infinite energy, non-normalizability, and orthogonality. We demonstrate that these issues are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Sijo K. Joseph , Sudhir Singh

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

We introduce a technique to construct gapped lattice models using defects in topological field theory. We illustrate with 2+1 dimensional models, for example Chern-Simons theories. These models are local, though the state space is not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-06 Daniel S. Freed , Michael J. Hopkins , Constantin Teleman

In this work, we study the Wigner phase-space representation of qubit states encoded in continuous variables (CV) by using the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) mapping. We explore a possible connection between resources for universal quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 L. García-Álvarez , A. Ferraro , G. Ferrini

We present the first device-independent quantum cryptography protocol for continuous variables. Our scheme is based on the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill encoding scheme whereby a qubit is embedded in the infinite-dimensional space of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 Kevin Marshall , Christian Weedbrook

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

We study the characteristics of the quantum state of light produced by a conditional preparation protocol totally performed in the continuous variable regime. It relies on conditional measurements on quantum intensity correlated bright twin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Laurat , Thomas Coudreau , Nicolas Treps , Agnes Maitre , Claude Fabre

Quantum repeaters are essential ingredients for quantum networks that link distant quantum modules such as quantum computers and sensors. Motivated by distributed quantum computing and communication, quantum repeaters that relay…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Bo-Han Wu , Zheshen Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

Continuous-variable cluster states offer a potentially promising method of implementing a quantum computer. This paper extends and further refines theoretical foundations and protocols for experimental implementation. We give a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mile Gu , Christian Weedbrook , Nicolas C. Menicucci , Timothy C. Ralph , Peter van Loock

We examine continuous-variable gate teleportation using entangled states made from pure product states sent through a beamsplitter. We show that such states are Choi states for a (typically) non-unitary gate, and we derive the associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Blayney W. Walshe , Ben Q. Baragiola , Rafael N. Alexander , Nicolas C. Menicucci

We present a protocol that allows the estimation of any density matrix element for continuous-variable quantum states, without resorting to the complete reconstruction of the full density matrix. The algorithm adaptatively discretizes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Virginia Feldman , Ariel Bendersky

Both discrete and continuous systems can be used to encode quantum information. Most quantum computation schemes propose encoding qubits in two-level systems, such as a two-level atom or an electron spin. Others exploit the use of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 Hilma Vasconcelos , Liliana Sanz , Scott Glancy

Physical Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states are inherently noisy as ideal ones would require infinite energy. While this is typically considered as a deficiency to be actively corrected, this work demonstrates that imperfect GKP…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Fariba Hosseinynejad , Pavithran Iyer , Guillaume Dauphinais , David L. Feder

We present a general variational approach to determine the steady state of open quantum lattice systems via a neural network approach. The steady-state density matrix of the lattice system is constructed via a purified neural network ansatz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Filippo Vicentini , Alberto Biella , Nicolas Regnault , Cristiano Ciuti