Demonstration of cluster-state shaping and quantum erasure for continuous variables
Yoshichika Miwa, Ryuji Ukai, Jun–ichi Yoshikawa, Radim Filip, Peter van Loock, Akira Furusawa · Physical Review A · 2010
We demonstrate experimentally how to remove an arbitrary node from a continuous-variable cluster state and how to shorten any quantum wires of such a state. These two basic operations, performed in an unconditional fashion, are a manifestation of quantum erasure and can be employed to obtain various graph states from an initial cluster state. Starting with a sufficiently large cluster, the resulting graph states can then be used for universal quantum information processing. In the experiment, all variations of this cluster shaping are demonstrated on a four-mode linear cluster state through homodyne measurements and feedforward.