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Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 077901 (2002) [4 pages]

Optimizing a Phase Gate Using Quantum Interference

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Eric Charron1, Eite Tiesinga2, Frederick Mies2, and Carl Williams2
1Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire du CNRS, Université Paris XI, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
2Atomic Physics Division, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive Stop 8423, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-8423

Received 16 July 2001; revised 21 November 2001; published 29 January 2002

A controlled interference is proposed to reduce, by two orders of magnitude, the decoherence of a quantum gate for which the gate fidelity is limited by coupling to states other than the |0 and |1 qubit states. This phenomenon is demonstrated in an ultracold neutral atom implementation of a phase gate using qubits based on motional states in individual wells of an optical lattice.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.077901
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.077901
PACS:
03.67.Lx, 32.80.Pj, 32.80.Qk