Re: [Qirg] Discrete/Continuous variable encodings

I think you have to acknowledge CV as possible alternate encoding which leads us to 

Does the current document set cover the issues for CV? 
What the issues in CV-DV repeater interoperability? 

And my solution? Address this in a future revision. 

Steve

> On Jun 9, 2020, at 11:14 AM, Wojciech Kozlowski <W.Kozlowski@tudelft.nl <mailto:W.Kozlowski@tudelft.nl>> wrote:
> 
> Dear QIRG,
> 
> One point that was raised on the call today was whether it's a goal to support
> continuous variable qubits as well as discrete variable qubits.
> 
> The consensus appeared to be that something should be included, but that it's
> quite a heavy topic on its own.
> 
> Last year, Patrick Gelard, did submit a PR for the draft in which he proposed
> that such encoding diversity be a goal so I think that's the best point to
> start a discussion from (look for lines 1111-1127): 
> https://github.com/Wojtek242/draft-irtf-qirg-principles/pull/1/files <https://github.com/Wojtek242/draft-irtf-qirg-principles/pull/1/files>
> 
> I was initially reluctant to include this section (and I haven't so far) as it
> appeared to me that it goes too deep into the physical layer. If CV vs DV can
> be kept entirely within the hardware and there is no reason to expose it beyond
> that, it might be best to keep it out of the draft. If it does somehow affect
> the protocol design landscape then I think it's a point worth mentioning.
> 
> Question to the community:
> 1. Is it worth having something about CV vs DV? Does it have an impact on the
> protocol design landscape?
> 2. If it is, does the contribution above cover the subject?
> 
> Cheers,
> Wojtek
> 
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