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arXiv:quant-ph/0512110 · Physical Review A

Efficient construction of photonic quantum-computational clusters

Gerald N. Gilbert, Michael Hamrick, Yaakov S. Weinstein

Published Jun 19, 2006• 39 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a method of creating photonic two-dimensional cluster states that is considerably more efficient than previously proposed approaches. Our method uses only local unitaries and type-I fusion operations. The increased efficiency of our method compared to previously proposed constructions is obtained by identifying and exploiting local equivalence properties inherent in cluster states.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.73.064303

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