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View SchemaHow good must single photon sources and detectors be for efficient linear optical quantum computation?
| Authors | M. Varnava, D. E. Browne, T. Rudolph |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0702044 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702044 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.060502 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 060502 (2008). |
Abstract
We present a scheme for linear optical quantum computation (LOQC) which is highly robust to imperfect single photon sources and inefficient detectors. In particular we show that if the product of the detector efficiency with the source efficiency is greater than 2/3, then efficient LOQC is possible. This threshold is many orders of magnitude more relaxed than those which could be inferred by application of standard results in fault tolerance. The result is achieved within the cluster state paradigm for quantum computation.
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