Table 2 Summary of important notations.

From: Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill qubit synthesizer for propagating light

Notation

Detail

Δ, κ

Factor of squeezing and Gaussian envelope of the GKP qubits

\(\left\vert {\tilde{0}}_{\Delta ,\kappa }\right\rangle ,\,\left\vert {\tilde{1}}_{\Delta ,\kappa }\right\rangle\)

Physical codewords of the GKP qubits

\({{{{\mathcal{B}}}}}_{w}\)

Ideal coherent bifurcation with a displacement factor w

\({{{{\mathcal{B}}}}}_{w}^{(N)}\)

N-time iteration of \({{{{\mathcal{B}}}}}_{w}\)

\({{{{\rm{e}}}}}^{-t{\hat{x}}^{2}},\,{{{{\rm{e}}}}}^{-t{\hat{p}}^{2}}\)

Damping operators of x and p

\({{{{\mathcal{G}}}}}_{w}\)

Generalized photon subtraction

\({\tilde{{{{\mathcal{G}}}}}}_{w}\)

Iterable generalized photon subtraction

c

A dominant parameter of the quality of \({\tilde{{{{\mathcal{G}}}}}}_{w}\)

n

Detected photon number in each \({\tilde{{{{\mathcal{G}}}}}}_{w}\)