Quantum computation with optical coherent states

Timothy C. Ralph, Alexei Gilchrist, G. J. Milburn, William J. Munro, Scott Glancy

Physical Review A · 2003 · 710 citations · 23 references

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We show that quantum computation circuits using coherent states as the logical qubits can be constructed from simple linear networks, conditional photon measurements, and ``small'' coherent superposition resource states.

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