How Good Must Single Photon Sources and Detectors Be for Efficient Linear Optical Quantum Computation?
How Good Must Single Photon Sources and Detectors Be for Efficient Linear Optical Quantum Computation?
We present a scheme for linear optical quantum computation that is highly robust to imperfect single photon sources and inefficient detectors. In particular we show that if the product of the detector efficiency with the source efficiency is greater than 2/3, then efficient linear optical quantum computation is possible. This …