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Scientific Reports

Controlled Photon Switch Assisted by Coupled Quantum Dots

Ming-Xing Luo, Song-Ya Ma, Xiu‐Bo Chen, Xiaojun Wang

Published Jun 22, 2015• 5 citations
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Abstract

Quantum switch is a primitive element in quantum network communication. In contrast to previous switch schemes on one degree of freedom (DOF) of quantum systems, we consider controlled switches of photon system with two DOFs. These controlled photon switches are constructed by exploring the optical selection rules derived from the quantum-dot spins in one-sided optical microcavities. Several double controlled-NOT gate on different joint systems are greatly simplified with an auxiliary DOF of the controlling photon. The photon switches show that two DOFs of photons can be independently transmitted in quantum networks. This result reduces the quantum resources for quantum network communication.

DOI
10.1038/srep11169

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