CnNOT gates for quantum computers using photonic devices

Amor Gueddana; Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

doi:10.1117/12.2556223

23 April 2020 CⁿNOT gates for quantum computers using photonic devices

Amor Gueddana, Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

Proceedings Volume 11389, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications XII; 113890D (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2556223
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Abstract

The Controlled-NOT (CNOT) quantum gate associated with single qubit gates is universal for building all quantum circuits. Although CNOTs based on trapped ions and superconducting qubits have become experimentally feasible, the deterministically functioning quantum CNOT gate with photonic qubits will lead to practical realization of quantum computers in a deterministic manner, and will therefore provide an exponential increase in processing power with lowest decoherence time. Based on a previously proposed CNOT model utilizing a quantum cloner (with a fidelity of 78 %), we present in this work our design of the Compact CNOT gate providing a fidelity of 90.31 %, and give physical realization constraints for building CNOT based decomposition of the Toffoli gate and more generalized photonic CⁿNOT gates. The photonic qubits are encoded by circularly polarized single photons and the design of the gate is based on copying the polarization degree of freedom by quantum cloners. Our model is based on spin of electron in a quantum dot embedded in a double sided optical microcavity which behaves like a beam splitter. Circularly polarizing beam splitters, beam splitters, delay lines, photonic circulators, single qubit operations and other photonic devices are used for the design and decomposition. We show that the fidelity of the decomposed CⁿNOT gates is highly dependent on the errors of the non-perfect photonic devices used and more specifically to the theoretical optimal limit of 5/6 of the quantum cloners required for each CNOT in the decomposition.

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Amor Gueddana and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan "CⁿNOT gates for quantum computers using photonic devices", Proc. SPIE 11389, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications XII, 113890D (23 April 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2556223

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