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Akira Furusawa

Team Director, Optical Quantum Computing Research Team

RIKEN

RIKEN
Japan · work baseIdentification checked 2026-09-19
WHY INCLUDED

An experimental quantum-optics researcher whose collaborative work spans continuous-variable teleportation and large optical cluster states, advancing routes to information processing with light.

RIKEN

Furusawa’s research explores how light can carry and process quantum information. His coauthored teleportation experiment demonstrated a central communication primitive for continuous-variable optical systems. Later work generated a two-dimensional cluster state using light arranged across time bins. These contributions connect individual quantum operations with the structured entanglement needed for a broader computing architecture, making his work a useful entry point into the possibilities and engineering challenges of photonic computation.

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Defining contributions

Work, in context
  1. 1998

    Continuous-variable quantum teleportation

    Furusawa coauthored Unconditional quantum teleportation, an optical experiment published in Science. It demonstrated teleportation in a continuous-variable setting, establishing a practical quantum-information operation using light.

    Coauthor of the optical teleportation experiment with Sørensen, Braunstein, Fuchs, Kimble and Polzik.

    Source-supported recordRIKEN
  2. 2019

    An optical two-dimensional cluster state

    Furusawa was a coauthor of the Science experiment generating a two-dimensional cluster state with time-domain multiplexing. The work developed a structured, extended entanglement resource relevant to optical measurement-based quantum computing.

    Coauthor of the collaborative optical cluster-state experiment, not sole creator of its apparatus or result.

    Source-supported recordRIKEN
  3. 2021

    Programming operations on optical cluster states

    Furusawa coauthored a demonstration of quantum operations on time-multiplexed optical cluster states at a 25-MHz clock frequency. Dynamically changing the measurement basis connected an entanglement resource with programmable operations; the frequency is not a claim of computational advantage.

    Coauthor of the optical quantum-operations experiment; the clock rate belongs to the reported experimental system.

    Source-supported recordPhysical Review Applied

Keep in perspective

Research demonstrations are not described as a completed fault-tolerant optical computer.

Follow the evidence

2 sources

Primary papers, institutional records and attributed announcements. Each source supports the claims linked above.

QubitWire editorial · Content edition 2026-09-19.1Independent coverage. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.