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arXiv:2305.00642 · Physical Review A

Heralded nonlocal quantum gates for distributed quantum computation in a decoherence-free subspace

Wanhua Su, Wei Qin, Adam Miranowicz, Tao Li, Franco Nori

Published Nov 20, 2024• 27 citations
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Abstract

We propose a heralded protocol for implementing nontrivial quantum gates on two stationary qubits coupled to spatially separated cavities. By dynamically controlling the evolution of the composite system, nonlocal two-qubit quantum (e.g., cphase and cnot) gates can be achieved without real excitations of either cavity modes or atoms. The success of our protocol is conditioned on projecting an auxiliary atom onto a postselected state, which simultaneously removes various detrimental effects of dissipation on the gate fidelity. In principle, the success probability of the gate can approach unity as the single-atom cooperativity becomes sufficiently large. Furthermore, we show its application for implementing single- and two-qubit gates within a decoherence-free subspace that is immune to a collective dephasing noise. This faithful, heralded, and nonlocal protocol could, therefore, be useful for distributed quantum computation and scalable quantum networks.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.110.052612

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