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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Demonstration of Unconditional One-Way Quantum Computations

Ryuji Ukai, Noriaki Iwata, Yuji Shimokawa, Seiji Armstrong, Alberto Politi, Jun–ichi Yoshikawa, Peter van Loock, Akira Furusawa

Published Jan 1, 2010• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate unconditional one-way quantum computation experiments using a linear cluster state of four entangled optical modes. Our results provide a first demonstration of the fundamental components for one-way quantum computation with continuous variables.
DOI
10.1364/qels.2010.jthe24

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