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Physical Review A

Universal hybrid three-qubit quantum gates assisted by a nitrogen-vacancy center coupled with a whispering-gallery-mode microresonator

Tie-Jun Wang, Chuan Xi Wang

Published Nov 10, 2014• 44 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the construction of two universal three-qubit quantum gates in a hybrid system. The designed system consists of a flying photon and a stationary negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center fixed on the periphery of a whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microresonator, with the WGM cavity coupled to tapered fibers functioning as an add-drop structure. These gate operations are accomplished by encoding the information both on the spin degree of freedom of the electron confined in the NV center and on the polarization and spatial-mode states of the flying photon, respectively. Compared with previous schemes, our proposed scheme leads to a reduction of time and resource consumption in the processing. Moreover, these gates work in a deterministic way with no extra qubits required, which is feasible with current technologies. Both proposed gate operations could be physically implemented in one step, which provides a promising approach for quantum information processing ranging from distributed quantum computation to long-distance quantum communication.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.90.052310

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