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Avoiding entanglement loss when two-qubit quantum gates are controlled by electronic excitation

R Rodriquez1, A J Fisher, P T Greenland and A M Stoneham

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A solid-state two-qubit quantum gate was recently proposed that might be made in a silicon fabrication plant in the near future. In this class of device, entanglement between two quantum bits is controlled by a change from a largely unentangled ground electronic state to an excited state in which useful entanglement can be produced. Such gates have potential advantages, both because they exploit known solid-state behaviour and they separate the storage and manipulation of quantum information. It is important that the excitation step does not create decoherence. We analyse a type of gate proposed before, in which the excitation involves a control electron that interacts with the qubit spins in the excited state. The dynamics of an idealized (but fairly general) gate of this type show that it can be operated to produce a standard two-qubit entangling state.


PACS

03.65.Ud Entanglement and quantum nonlocality (e.g. EPR paradox, Bell's inequalities, GHZ states, etc.)

03.67.Lx Quantum computation architectures and implementations

03.67.Mn Entanglement measures, witnesses, and other characterizations

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Computational physics

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Dates

Issue 16 (28 April 2004)

Received 21 August 2003

Published 8 April 2004



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