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Phys. Rev. A 79, 050304(R) (2009) [4 pages]

Experimental demonstration of a teleportation-based programmable quantum gate

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Lukáš Slodička1,2, Miroslav Ježek1, and Jaromír Fiurášek1
1Department of Optics, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 50, 77200 Olomouc, Czech Republic
2Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Received 27 February 2009; published 21 May 2009

We experimentally demonstrate a programmable quantum gate that applies a sign flip operation to data qubit in an arbitrary basis fully specified by the quantum state of a two-qubit program register. Our linear-optical implementation is inspired by teleportation-based schemes for quantum computing and relies on multiphoton interference and coincidence detection. We confirm the programmability of the gate and its high-fidelity performance by carrying out full quantum process tomography of the resulting operation on data qubit for several different programs.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.79.050304
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.79.050304
PACS:
03.67.Lx, 42.50.Ex