Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Machine Learning Applied in Reconstruction of Unitary Matrix for Quantum Computation

Hantao Zhang, Hong Nian Cai, Stefano Paesani, Raffaele Santagati, Anthony Laing, L. C. Kwek, A. Q. Liu

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations

Abstract

Optimal method are applied in characterizing and reconstructing designed unitary matrices on linear optical circuit. The scheme is based on the measurement of single-photon and two-photon statistics using coherent beams.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2019.jtu2a.124

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