Bosonic coding: introduction and use cases

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Bosonic or continuous-variable coding is a field concerned with robust quantum information processing and communication with electromagnetic signals or mechanical modes.

• I review bosonic quantum memories, characterizing them as either bosonic stabilizer or bosonic Fock-state codes.
• I then enumerate various applications of bosonic encodings, four of which circumvent no-go theorems due to the intrinsic infinite-dimensionality of bosonic systems.