Building a large-scale quantum computer with continuous-variable optical technologies

K Fukui, S Takeda - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Realizing a large-scale quantum computer requires hardware platforms that can
simultaneously achieve universality, scalability, and fault tolerance. As a viable pathway to …

Logical states for fault-tolerant quantum computation with propagating light

S Konno, W Asavanant, F Hanamura, H Nagayoshi… - Science, 2024 - science.org
To harness the potential of a quantum computer, quantum information must be protected
against error by encoding it into a logical state that is suitable for quantum error correction …

Toward large-scale fault-tolerant universal photonic quantum computing

S Takeda, A Furusawa - APL Photonics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Photonic quantum computing is one of the leading approaches to universal quantum
computation. However, large-scale implementation of photonic quantum computing has …

Boson sampling for molecular vibronic spectra

J Huh, GG Guerreschi, B Peropadre, JR McClean… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Controllable quantum devices open novel directions to both quantum computation and
quantum simulation. Recently, a problem known as boson sampling has been shown to …

Resource theory of quantum non-Gaussianity and Wigner negativity

F Albarelli, MG Genoni, MGA Paris, A Ferraro - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We develop a resource theory for continuous-variable systems grounded on operations
routinely available within current quantum technologies. In particular, the set of free …

Progress towards practical qubit computation using approximate Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill codes

I Tzitrin, JE Bourassa, NC Menicucci, KK Sabapathy - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Encoding a qubit in the continuous degrees of freedom of an oscillator is a promising path to
error-corrected quantum computation. One advantageous way to achieve this is through …

Nonlinear feedforward enabling quantum computation

A Sakaguchi, S Konno, F Hanamura… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Measurement-based quantum computation with optical time-domain multiplexing is a
promising method to realize a quantum computer from the viewpoint of scalability. Fault …

Generation of optical Schrödinger cat states by generalized photon subtraction

K Takase, J Yoshikawa, W Asavanant, M Endo… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We propose a high-rate generation method of optical Schrödinger cat states. Thus far,
photon subtraction from squeezed vacuum states has been a standard method in cat-state …

Generation of flying logical qubits using generalized photon subtraction with adaptive Gaussian operations

K Takase, F Hanamura, H Nagayoshi, JE Bourassa… - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
The generation of a logical qubit called the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) qubit in an
optical traveling wave is a major challenge for realizing large-scale universal fault-tolerant …

Optical synthesis of large-amplitude squeezed coherent-state superpositions with minimal resources

K Huang, H Le Jeannic, J Ruaudel, VB Verma… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We propose and experimentally realize a novel versatile protocol that allows the quantum
state engineering of heralded optical coherent-state superpositions. This scheme relies on a …