2-photon multiqubit cluster states
Giuseppe Vallone, R. Ceccarelli, Paolo Mataloni · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2008
Cluster states of two photons and four qubits, built on the double entanglement of two photons in the degrees of freedom of polarization and linear momentum, have been used in the realization of a complete set of basic operations of one-way quantum computation. Basic computation algorithms, namely, the Grover's search and the Deutsch's algorithm, have been realized by using these states. Hyperentangled states of increasing size are of paramount importance for the realization of even more complex algorithms and can be extended to a lager number of degrees of freedom of the photons. Some recent results obtained with entangled states of two photons and six qubits are presented.