Optical quantum computing with photons of arbitrarily low fidelity and purity

Peter P. Rohde

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.86.052321

Optical quantum computing with photons of arbitrarily low fidelity and purity

Peter P. Rohde^*

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Linear optics quantum computing (LOQC) is a leading candidate for the implementation of large scale quantum computers. Here quantum information is encoded into the quantum states of light and computation proceeds via a linear optics network. It is well known that in such schemes there are stringent requirements on the spatiotemporal structure of photons-they must be completely indistinguishable and of very high purity. We show that in the boson-sampling model for LOQC these conditions may be significantly relaxed. We present evidence that by increasing the size of the system we can implement a computationally hard algorithm even if our photons have arbitrarily low fidelity and purity. These relaxed conditions may make boson-sampling LOQC within reach of present-day technology.

Original language	English
Article number	052321
Pages (from-to)	052321-1-052321-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume	86
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.86.052321
Publication status	Published - 19 Nov 2012

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Rohde, PP. Physical review A. Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 86(5), 052321, 2012. Copyright 2012 by the American Physical Society. The original article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.86.052321

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