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Scheme for implementing linear optical quantum iSWAP gate with conventional photon detectors

Source: J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27, 27 (2010); doi:10.1364/JOSAB.27.000027

Published 2009-11-03

KEYWORDS and PACS
Keywords
PACS
  • 42.79.Ta
    Optical computers, logic elements, interconnects, switches; neural networks
  • 42.50.-p
    Quantum optics
  • 03.65.Ud
    Entanglement and quantum nonlocality
  • 85.60.Gz
    Photodetectors
  • 03.67.Lx
    Quantum computation architectures and implementations
  • YEAR: 2010
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Hong-Fu Wang,1,2 Xiao-Qiang Shao,1 Yong-Fang Zhao,1 Shou Zhang,1,2 and Kyu-Hwang Yeon3
1Center for the Condensed-Matter Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China
2Department of Physics, College of Science, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin 133002, China
3BK21 Program Physics & Department of Physics, College of Natural Science, Chungbuk National University, Cheonju, Chungbuk 361-763, Korea

A simple scheme is proposed to implement a two-qubit linear optical quantum iSWAP gate that is a universal gate in quantum computation and quantum information processing. By the interference effect of the polarized photons, a quantum iSWAP gate can be achieved with a low success probability (eta4/32, with eta being the quantum efficiency of photon detectors). The scheme is based only on simple linear optical elements, a pair of two-photon polarization entangled states, and conventional photon detectors that only distinguish the vacuum and nonvacuum Fock number states, which greatly decreases the experimental difficulty of implementing linear optical quantum computation. ©2009 Optical Society of America
History: Received 25 August 2009; revised 28 October 2009; accepted 2 November 2009; published 2009-11-03
Permalink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.27.000027

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