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Frontiers in Optics

Excitation Transfer in a Pulsed Trimer of Qubits in a Young’s Double-Slit Configuration

Abuenameh Aiyejina, Ethan Wyke, Roger Andrews, Andrew D. Greentree

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate interfering amplitudes in a pulsed trimer system consisting of a pair of source qubits and one detector qubit. We have demonstrated that this system exhibits different interference properties from the Young’s double-slit experiment.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2024.jd4a.11

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