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Quantum Distributed Computing with Shaped Laser Pulses

Rohit R. Goswami, Debabrata Goswami

Published Jan 1, 2016• 3 citations

Abstract

Shaped laser pulses can control decoherence under quantum adiabatic method of logic operations to result in a possible scalable quantum computer by distributing the computing load on a set of optically adiabatic quantum computing nodes.

DOI: 10.1364/photonics.2016.w4c.3

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