Quasicontinuous-Variable Quantum Computation with Collective Spins in Multipath Interferometers.

Collective spins of large atomic samples trapped inside optical resonators can carry quantum information that can be processed in a way similar to quantum computation with continuous variables. It is shown here that by combining the resonators in multipath interferometers one can realize coupling between different samples, and that polynomial Hamiltonians can be constructed by repeated spin rotations and twisting induced by dispersive interaction of the atoms with light. Application can be expected in the efficient simulation of quantum systems.