Continuous-Variable Quantum Computing in Optical Time-Frequency Modes Using Quantum Memories

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Date: 
2014-09-25
Author(s): 

Peter C. Humphreys,1 W. Steven Kolthammer,1 Joshua Nunn,1 Marco Barbieri,1,2 Animesh Datta,1 and Ian A. Walmsley

Reference: 

PhysRevLett.113.130502
Continuous-Variable Quantum Computing in Optical Time-Frequency Modes Using Quantum Memories
P. C. Humphreys and W. S. Kolthammer and J. Nunn and M. Barbieri and A. Datta and I. A. Walmsley
Phys. Rev. Lett. 
113 
130502 
(2014)
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.130502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.130502

We develop a scheme for time-frequency encoded continuous-variable cluster-state quantum computing using quantum memories. In particular, we propose a method to produce, manipulate, and measure two-dimensional cluster states in a single spatial mode by exploiting the intrinsic time-frequency selectivity of Raman quantum memories. Time-frequency encoding enables the scheme to be extremely compact, requiring a number of memories that are a linear function of only the number of different frequencies in which the computational state is encoded, independent of its temporal duration. We therefore show that quantum memories can be a powerful component for scalable photonic quantum information processing architectures.