Grid states, artistic impression (IMAGE)

ETH Zurich Department of Physics

Grid states, artistic impression

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In the Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill (GKP) code, discrete quantum information is encoded in the continuous space of a quantum system, forcing it to be positioned at regularly spaced points forming a comb with teeth at fixed intervals, effectively digitizing space.

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Image: Christa Flühmann, ETH Zurich / Shutterstock

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