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Year 2·Month 34·Week 1

Day 925: Linear Optical Quantum Computing Fundamentals

Day 925 of 2,016~14 min read

Learning Objectives

•Derive the quantum mechanical beam splitter transformation in Fock basis
•Calculate the output state for arbitrary input states through linear optical networks
•Explain the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect and its role in photonic quantum computing
•Implement dual-rail qubit encoding and single-qubit gates
•Analyze photon detection schemes and their quantum measurement properties
•Simulate linear optical circuits with multi-photon states

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