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Understanding photonic quantum-logic gates: The road to fault tolerance
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 2008.
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Abstract
- Fault-tolerant quantum computing requires gates which function correctly despite the presence of errors, and are scalable if the error probability-per-gate is below a threshold value. To date, no method has been described for calculating this probability from measurements on a gate. Here we introduce a technique enabling quantitative benchmarking of quantum-logic gates against fault-tolerance thresholds for any architecture. We demonstrate our technique experimentally using a photonic entangling-gate. The relationship between experimental errors and their quantum logic effect is non-trivial: revealing this relationship requires a comprehensive theoretical model of the quantum-logic gate. We show the first such model for any architecture, and find multi-photon emission--a small effect previously regarded as secondary to mode-mismatch--to be the dominant source of logic error. We show that reducing this will move photonic quantum computing to within striking distance of fault-tolerance.<br />Comment: Article (6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table) + Supplementary material (3 pages, 1 table)
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e8d8e9eb6aa0dc2e6ebc6e1696334eb9
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0808.0794