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Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 030501 (2007) [4 pages]

Quantum Information Processing with Delocalized Qubits under Global Control

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Joseph Fitzsimons1,*, Li Xiao2, Simon C. Benjamin1,†, and Jonathan A. Jones2
1Department of Materials, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3PH, United Kingdom
2Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom

Received 21 November 2006; published 18 July 2007

Conventional quantum computing schemes are incompatible with nanometer-scale “hardware,” where the closely packed spins cannot be individually controlled. We report the first experimental demonstration of a global control paradigm: logical qubits delocalize along a spin chain and are addressed via the two terminal spins. Using NMR studies on a three-spin molecule, we implement a globally clocked quantum mirror that outperforms the equivalent swap network. We then extend the protocol to support dense qubit storage and demonstrate this experimentally via Deutsch and Deutsch-Jozsa algorithms.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.030501
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.030501
PACS:
03.67.Lx, 03.67.Hk, 03.67.Pp, 73.21.Hb

*joe.fitzsimons@materials.ox.ac.uk

s.benjamin@qubit.org