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Optical simulation of quantum logic
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A constructive method for simulating small-scale quantum circuits by use of linear optical devices is presented. It relies on the representation of several quantum bits by a single photon, and on the implementation of universal quantum gates using simple optical components (beam splitters, phase shifters, etc.). This suggests that the optical realization of small quantum networks with present-day quantum optics technology is a reasonable goal. This technique could be useful for demonstrating basic concepts of simple quantum algorithms or error-correction schemes. The optical analog of a nontrivial three-bit quantum circuit is presented as an illustration.
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“As we have seen in section I.D, however, their approach is not scalable since n-qubit circuits involve 2 n distinct paths.”
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“Indeed the first proposals for using linear optics to benchmark quantum algorithms require exponentially large physical resources [9, 10].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cerf, N. J., Adami, C., & Kwiat, P. G.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
- Venue
- Physical Review A
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1998-03-01
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- R1477-R1480
- ISSN
- 0556-2791 (ISSN-L)
- 1050-2947
- 1094-1622
- OpenAlex
- W1993324774
- Cited by
- 324
- References
- 17
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- FWCI
- 22.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Physical Review A (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (submittedVersion)
- CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Army Research Office
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Keywords
- linear optical quantum computing, qubits, universal quantum gates, beam splitter, phase shifters, quantum networks, quantum algorithms, quantum error correction
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