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Demonstration of an entangling gate between non-interacting qubits using the Quantum Zeno effect

Eliya Blumenthal, Chen Mor, Asaf A. Diringer, Leigh S. Martin, Daniel Klaus Burgarth, K. Birgitta Whaley, Shay Hacohen-Gourgy

Published Aug 19, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

The Zeno effect occurs in quantum systems when a very strong measurement is applied, which can alter the dynamics in non-trivial ways. Despite being dissipative, the dynamics stay coherent within any degenerate subspaces of the measurement. Here we show that such a measurement can turn a single-qubit operation into a two- or multi-qubit entangling gate, even in a non-interacting system. We demonstrate this gate between two effectively non-interacting transmon qubits. Our Zeno gate works by imparting a geometric phase on the system, conditioned on it lying within a particular non-local subspace.

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