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Frontiers in Optics

A silicon photonics processor for error-protected measurement-based quantum computing

Caterina Vigliar, Stefano Paesani, Yunhong Ding, Jeremy C. Adcock, Jianwei Wang, Sam Morley-Short, Davide Bacco, Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, Mark G. Thompson, John Rarity, Anthony Laing

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

The development of a silicon photonic chip for the generation and measurement of eight-qubit reconfigurable graph and hypergraph states is reported. Its performance is demonstrated through several measurement-based quantum computing protocols enhanced by error-correction encodings.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2020.fth1c.3

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