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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Scalable and Universal Quantum Computing with Continuous-Variable Gate Sequence in a Loop-Based Architecture

Shuntaro Takeda, Akira Furusawa

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose a scalable scheme for optical quantum computing using continuous-variable quantum gates in a loop-based architecture. This architecture offers a universal gate set for both qubits and continuous variables with almost minimum resources.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2018.ftu4g.4

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