Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Two-qubits Controlled-unitary Quantum Gates for Quantum Computing by Silicon Photonic Chip

J. G. Huang, L. C. Kwek, Jiangbin Gong, Weibo Gao, Y. D. Chong, W. Ser, A. Q. Liu

Published Jan 1, 2017• 1 citation

Abstract

We demonstrate two-qubits controlled unitary quantum gates in a single silicon photonic chip. It can greatly reduce the size and complexity of the functional quantum circuits without decomposition it into plenty of elementary logic gates.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2017.jw2a.21

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