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dc.contributor.advisorKorolkova, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorNordgren, Viktor Manuel
dc.coverage.spatial171en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-02T09:30:45Z
dc.date.available2023-03-02T09:30:45Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-12
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/27084
dc.description.abstractIn the first half of this thesis, we present two models of ancilla-based quantum computation (ABQC). Computation in the ABQC models is based on effecting changes on a register through the interaction with and manipulation of an ancillary system. The two models presented enable quantum computation through only unitary control of the ancilla – the ancilla-controlled model (ACQC) – or supplemented by measurements on the ancilla which drive the register transfor- mations – the ancilla-driven model (ADQC). For each of the models, we work on systems which couple two continuous variables (CV) or which are hybrid: the register is formed by two-level systems while the ancilla is a CV degree of freedom. The initial models are presented using eigenstates of momentum as the ancillas. We move to a more realistic scenario by modelling the ancillas as finitely squeezed states. We find that the completely unitary ACQC contains persistent entanglement between register and ancilla in the finite-squeezing scenario. In the ancilla-driven model, the effect of finite squeezing is to scale the register state by a real exponential which is inversely proportional to the squeezing in the ancilla. In the second part, we cover work on Genuine Gaussian Multipartite Entanglement (Gaussian GME). We present an algorithm for finding Gaussian states that have GME despite having all two-state reductions separable. This touches on the idea of entanglement as an emergent phenomenon. We determine GME via witnesses which probe only a subset of the state. We therefore referred to them as partially blind witnesses. The algorithm is based on semi-definite programs (SDPs). Such optimisation schemes can be used to efficiently find an optimal, partially blind, GME witness for a given CM and vice versa. We then present results of multipartite states of up to six parties. For the tripartite example, we present two experimental schemes to produce the state using a circuit of beam-splitters and squeezers.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/*
dc.subjectQuantum informationen_US
dc.subjectQuantum computationen_US
dc.subjectModels of computationen_US
dc.subjectQuantum correlationsen_US
dc.subjectEntanglementen_US
dc.subjectEntanglement witnessen_US
dc.subjectMultipartite entanglementen_US
dc.subjectGenuine multipartite entanglementen_US
dc.subjectSemidefinite programen_US
dc.subjectEmergent propertiesen_US
dc.subjectMarginal problemen_US
dc.titleHybrid ancilla-based quantum computation and emergent Gaussian multipartite entanglementen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)en_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17630/sta/316
dc.identifier.grantnumber1947916en_US


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