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Year 2·Month 34·Week 1

Day 930: Cat States and Bosonic Codes

Day 930 of 2,016~17 min read

Learning Objectives

•Define cat states and calculate their properties (normalization, parity, photon statistics)
•Explain the role of Kerr nonlinearity in cat state preparation
•Describe dissipative stabilization of cat states
•Analyze error correction properties of cat codes
•Compare cat codes with GKP and other bosonic encodings
•Implement cat state simulations and visualizations

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