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Realization of a Knill-Laflamme-Milburn controlled-NOT photonic quantum circuit combining effective optical nonlinearities

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Okamoto, Ryo, O’Brien, Jeremy L., Hofmann, Holger F., Takeuchi, Shigeki·2011·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Quantum information science addresses how uniquely quantum mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement can enhance communication, information processing, and precision measurement. Photons are appealing for their low-noise, light-speed transmission and ease of manipulation using conventional optical components. However, the lack of highly efficient optical Kerr nonlinearities at the single photon level was a major obstacle. In a breakthrough, Knill, Laflamme, and Milburn (KLM) showed that such an efficient nonlinearity can be achieved using only linear optical elements, auxiliary photons, and measurement [Knill E, Laflamme R, Milburn GJ (2001) Nature 409:46–52]. KLM proposed a heralded controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate for scalable quantum computation using a photonic quantum circuit to combine two such nonlinear elements. Here we experimentally demonstrate a KLM CNOT gate. We developed a stable architecture to realize the required four-photon network of nested multiple interferometers based on a displaced-Sagnac interferometer and several partially polarizing beamsplitters. This result confirms the first step in the original KLM “recipe” for all-optical quantum computation, and should be useful for on-demand entanglement generation and purification. Optical quantum circuits combining giant optical nonlinearities may find wide applications in quantum information processing, communication, and sensing.

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Authors
Okamoto, R., O’Brien, J. L., Hofmann, H. F., & Takeuchi, S.
Affiliations
  • Hokkaido University (JP)
  • University of Bristol (GB)
  • Hiroshima University (JP)
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2011-06-06
Volume
108
Issue
25
Pages
10067-10071
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W1972188434
Cited by
92
References
48
Citations by year
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FWCI
7.36
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) (submittedVersion)
  • Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (Hokkaido University) (submittedVersion)
  • Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion)
  • Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • Leverhulme Trust
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/F010524/1)
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (21102007, 23244079, 21540409)
  • Japan Science and Technology Agency
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum optics and atomic interactions
Keywords
CNOT gate, quantum photonic circuits, Kerr nonlinearity, heralded single-photon source, entanglement generation, entanglement distillation

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