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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Abstract probabilistic CNOT gate model based on double encoding: study of the errors and physical realizability

Amor Gueddana, Moez Attia, Rihab Chatta

Published Mar 4, 2015• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this work, we study the error sources standing behind the non-perfect linear optical quantum components composing a non-deterministic quantum CNOT gate model, which performs the CNOT function with a success probability of 4/27 and uses a double encoding technique to represent photonic qubits at the control and the target. We generalize this model to an abstract probabilistic CNOT version and determine the realizability limits depending on a realistic range of the errors. Finally, we discuss physical constraints allowing the implementation of the Asymmetric Partially Polarizing Beam Splitter (APPBS), which is at the heart of correctly realizing the CNOT function.

DOI
10.1117/12.2076669

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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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A new method based on quantum encoders is developed for implementing quantum computational gates, especially the CNOT gate. Photonic qubits are used where ∣0> and ∣1> represent horizontal ∣H> and vertical ∣V> polarized photons, respectively. By the use of polarizing beam splitters (PBSs) and entangled two-photon states in a certain experimental scheme, each input qubit state is copied, with a certain probability of success, into four equivalent input qubit states. The present method concentrates on the special case where the initial two-qubit state is separable. The CNOT gate (multiplied by 2) is decomposed into a summation of four unitary matrices each of dimension 4×4 and where each of these unitary matrices operates on a corresponding copy of the input two-qubit state. By adding the amplitudes of the four two-qubit states, which is obtained in a decoding interference experiment, the CNOT gate is implemented.
We show how a nonlocal and open-target destination quantum controlled-Not （CNOT） gate can be probabilistically implemented by using partially entangled pairs of particles. We first investigate the controlled implementation of a nonlocal and three-target destination CNOT gate using three partially entangled pairs, and then generalize the scheme to the case of N-target destination. In this scheme, Alice’s local generalized measurement described by a positive operator valued measurement （POVM） plays a key role. We construct the required POVM. It is worth noting that deterministic and exact implementation of a nonlocal CNOT gate can be realized using partially entangled pairs.