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Frontiers in Optics

Demonstration of Single-Photon Three-Qubit Quantum Logic with Spatial Light Modulators

Kumel H. Kagalwala, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Ayman F. Abouraddy, Bahaa E. A. Saleh

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate linear, deterministic, single-photon three-qubit quantum gates implemented by a polarization-sensitive spatial light modulator and using polarization and spatial-parity qubits. We also prepare single-photon three-qubit GHZ and W states and present tomographic measurements.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2014.ftu4a.7

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