Abstract
We describe applications of solitons and soliton collisions to the transport, transfer, and beam-splitting of qubits carried by optical photons. The transport and transfer realize the “flying qubits” necessary for quantum information processing, and the beam-splitting leads, in theory, to an implementation of quantum computing using linear optics. These proposed applications are embedded in a uniform optical fiber and require no special device fabrication, no cooling, and no vacuum.
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I owe a special debt of gratitude to Darren Rand, coauthor of [3], the springboard for this line of work. He shares any credit for this work, but not any blame. I’ve benefited also from discussions with Sanjeev Arora, Andrew Houck, Steve Lyon, and Herschel Rabitz.
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Steiglitz, K. (2017). Soliton-Guided Quantum Information Processing. In: Adamatzky, A. (eds) Advances in Unconventional Computing. Emergence, Complexity and Computation, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33921-4_13
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