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arXiv:quant-ph/0208180 · Physical Review Letters

Experimental Demonstration of a Controlled-NOT Wave-Packet Gate

Brian DeMarco, Amit Ben-Kish, Dietrich G. Leibfried, V. Meyer, M. Rowe, B. M. Jelenkovic, Wayne M. Itano, J. Britton, C. Langer, Till Rosenband, David J. Wineland

Published Dec 9, 2002• 65 citations
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Abstract

We report the experimental demonstration of a controlled-NOT (CNOT) quantum logic gate between motional and internal-state qubits of a single ion where, as opposed to previously demonstrated gates, the conditional dynamics depends on the extent of the ion's wave packet. Advantages of this CNOT gate over one demonstrated previously are its immunity from Stark shifts due to off-resonant couplings and the fact that an auxiliary internal level is not required. We characterize the gate logic through measurements of the postgate ion state populations for both logic basis and superposition input states, and we demonstrate the gate coherence via an interferometric measurement.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.89.267901

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Universal logic gates for two quantum bits (qubits) form an essential ingredient of quantum information processing. However, photons, one of the best candidates for qubits, suffer from a lack of strong nonlinear coupling, which is required for quantum logic operations. Here we show how this drawback can be overcome by reporting a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration of a nondestructive controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate for two independent photons using only linear optical elements in conjunction with single-photon sources and conditional dynamics. Moreover, we exploit the CNOT gate to discriminate all four Bell states in a teleportation experiment.
Quantum controlled-NOT (CNOT) gates with single trapped cold ions have been experimentally demonstrated [C. Monroe et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4714 (1995)] by using auxiliary atomic levels (besides the qubit ones) and under the usual Lamb-Dicke (LD) limit (wherein the so-called LD parameter, which represents the interaction strength between the internal and external degrees of freedom of the driven ion, is required to be sufficiently small). It has been shown [C. Monroe et al., Phys. Rev. A 55, R2489 (1997); L. F. Wei et al., 65, 062316 (2002)] that, beyond the LD limit, these gates could also be implemented for certain specific LD parameters. Here, we further show that, without any auxiliary atomic level, the desirable quantum logic gates could still be realized with sufficiently high fidelities for arbitrary LD parameters, as long as the durations of the applied laser pulses are accurately set within the decoherence times of the ions.
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Abstract Universal logic gates for two quantum bits (qubits) form an essential ingredient of quantum computation. Dynamical gates have been proposed1, 2 in the context of trapped ions; however, geometric phase gates (which change only the phase of the physical qubits) offer potential practical advantages because they have higher intrinsic resistance to certain small errors and might enable faster gate implementation. Here we demonstrate a universal geometric π-phase gate between two beryllium ion-qubits, based on coherent displacements induced by an optical dipole force. The displacements depend on the internal atomic states; the motional state of the ions is unimportant provided that they remain in the regime in which the force can be considered constant over the extent of each ion's wave packet. By combining the gate with single-qubit rotations, we have prepared ions in an entangled Bell state with 97% fidelity—about six times better than in a previous experiment3 demonstrating a universal gate between two ion-qubits. The particular properties of the gate make it attractive for a multiplexed trap architecture4, 5 that would enable scaling to large numbers of ion-qubits.
We show that, under certain conditions, the two-qubit controlled-NOT logic operations can be realized exactly using one laser pulse. The target qubit and the control qubit are encoded by the internal and external degrees of freedom of a single trapped ion. The multiquantum process of the interaction between the internal and external degrees of freedom of the ion is considered. This scheme neither requires the cooled ion in its vibrational ground state nor necessitates performance of the Lamb-Dicke approximation.