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Optics Express

Controllable entanglement and polarization phase gate in coupled double quantum-well structures

Wen‐Xing Yang, Ray‐Kuang Lee

Published Oct 13, 2008• 32 citations
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Abstract

By analyzing the nonlinear optical response in an asymmetric coupled double quantum well structure based on the intersubband transitions, we show that a giant Kerr nonlinearity with a relatively large cross-phase modulation coefficient can be used to produce efficient photonphoton entanglement and implement an all-optical two-qubit quantum polarization phase gate. We also demonstrate that such photon-photon entanglement is practically controllable and may facilitate more practical applications in all-optical quantum information and computation.

DOI
10.1364/oe.16.017161

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