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arXiv:quant-ph/0503069 · Journal of Modern Optics

Optical implementability of the two-dimensional quantum walk

Eugenio Roldán, J. C. Soriano

Published Dec 15, 2005• 24 citations
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Abstract

We propose an optical cavity implementation of the two-dimensional coined quantum walk on the line. The implementation makes use of only classical resources, and is tunable in the sense that a large number of different unitary transformations can be implemented by tuning some parameters of the device.
DOI
10.1080/09500340500309873

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