Entangling the optical frequency comb into multiple continuous-variable cluster states

ORAL

Abstract

A single multimode optical parametric oscillator (OPO) can be designed so that its nonlinear gain medium (typically a two-photon parametric amplifier) generates a particular network of entangling interactions between the eigenmodes of its optical cavity. We show how this can be formulated using nonstandard graph states and how these are related to the usual graph states, an example of which is the cluster state for one-way quantum computing. We also report on the progress of our very compact experimental implementation, in a single OPO with a single pump field, of a parallel quantum register comprising several independent quadripartite cluster states.

*NCM acknowledges support from the U.S. Dept. of Defense and the National Science Foundation, STF from ONR Grant No. N00014-07-1-0304, and HZ, RB, MP, and OP from NSF Grants No. PHY-0555522 and No. CCF-0622100.

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Authors

  • Olivier Pfister

    • University of Virginia

  • Hussain Zaidi

    • University of Virginia

  • Nicolas Menicucci

    • Princeton University and the University of Queensland

  • Steven Flammia

    • Perimeter Institute, Waterloo
    • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

  • Russell Bloomer

    • University of Virginia

  • Matthew Pysher

    • University of Virginia