Temporal-mode continuous-variable three-dimensional cluster state for topologically protected measurement-based quantum computation

Abstract

Measurement-based quantum computation with continuous variables in an optical setup shows the great promise towards implementation of large-scale quantum computation, where the time-domain multiplexing approach enables us to generate the large-scale cluster state used to perform measurement-based quantum computation. To make effective use of the advantage of the time-domain multiplexing approach, in this paper, we propose the method to generate the large-scale 3-dimensional cluster state which is a platform for topologically protected measurement-based quantum computation. Our method combines a time-domain multiplexing approach with a divide-and-conquer approach, and has the two advantages for implementing large-scale quantum computation. First, the squeezing level for verification of the entanglement of the 3-dimensional cluster states is experimentally feasible. The second advantage is the robustness against analog errors derived from the finite squeezing of continuous variables during topologically-protected measurement-based quantum computation. Therefore, our method is a promising approach to implement large-scale quantum computation with continuous variables.