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Demonstration of a Simple Entangling Optical Gate and Its Use in Bell-State Analysis
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We demonstrate a new architecture for an optical entangling gate that is significantly simpler than previous realizations, using partially polarizing beam splitters so that only a single optical mode-matching condition is required. We demonstrate operation of a controlled-z gate in both continuous-wave and pulsed regimes of operation, fully characterizing it in each case using quantum process tomography. We also demonstrate a fully resolving, nondeterministic optical Bell-state analyzer based on this controlled-z gate. This new architecture is ideally suited to guided optics implementations of optical gates.
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The paper demonstrates a simplified optical entangling controlled-z gate using partially-polarising beamsplitters, requiring only one nonclassical mode-matching condition and no classical interferometers. It fully characterizes the gate in continuous-wave and pulsed regimes and uses it as a nondeterministic Bell-state analyser.
Key findings
- The PPBS controlled-z gate uses three partially-polarising beamsplitters, two half-wave plates, no classical interferometers, and no ancilla photons; the controlled-z operation succeeds with probability 1/9 and is heralded by one photon in each output.
- Quantum process tomography gives CW and pulsed process fidelities of 74.6±0.3% and 84.0±0.1%, and average gate fidelities of 79.7±0.2% and 87.2±0.1%; with modelled single-qubit unitary corrections these rise to 77.0±0.3% and 86.6±0.2% process fidelity, and 81.6±0.2% and 89.3±0.1% average gate fidelity.
- As a Bell-state analyser, the average fidelity of measured output states with separable states is 79±3%, and the directly measured average probability of success is 78±3%.
- The pulsed-gate PPBS reflectivities were η = 0.28, 0.28, and 0.29 (±0.01); modelling a gate with 0.28 reflectivities gives an optimum process fidelity of 96%, indicating the gate is relatively forgiving of exact splitting ratios.
Methods
- Photon pairs were generated by spontaneous parametric downconversion in a BBO crystal using both continuous-wave and femtosecond-pulsed sources, collected into single-mode fibers, and injected into the PPBS controlled-z gate; a coincidence window of ∼5 ns was used with no correction for accidental counts.
- The gate was characterized by quantum process tomography in both CW and pulsed regimes, using process fidelity and average gate fidelity metrics.
- The Bell-state analyser was tested with entangled CW input states, including the four maximally entangled states |ψ′± and |φ′±, using quantum state tomography and a directly measured truth table.
Limitations
- The paper states that PPBS beamsplitting ratios are fixed at manufacture, unlike schemes where a half-wave plate sets effective reflectivity; performance is limited almost exclusively by mode matching, primarily spatial.
- The paper reports systematic fixed rotations of input and output polarisations, probably from birefringent effects in non-ideal PPBSs, which could be compensated with wave plates.
- The Bell measurement is nondeterministic, and the paper notes that a protocol using this gate would be less efficient than ordinary classical communication; the measured output Bell states are unentangled but somewhat mixed (average linear entropy SL = 0.42 ± 0.07).
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“by comparing the two we find that temporal mode mismatch was not a significant factor in the gate's performance.”
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“Their average tangle, T = 0.04 ± 0.05, and linear entropy, SL = 0.42 ± 0.07, indicates that they are unentangled, albeit somewhat mixed.”
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“In our experiment, we observed systematic, fixed rotations of the input and output polarisations, probably due to birefringent effects in non-ideal PPBSs.”
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“We also demonstrate a fully-resolving, nondeterministic optical Bell-state analyser based on this controlled-z gate.”
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“we also demonstrate the use of this kind of gate for fully-resolving Bell measurements.”
§ Demonstration of a Simple Entangling Optical Gate and Its Use in Bell-State Analysis > Abstract
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passes- Rests on an assumption: The four Bell states can be discriminated by the cz gate after a Hadamard rotation.
- Rests on an assumption: An ideal cz gate takes the four maximally entangled states |ψ′±, |φ′± to the four separable orthogonal states |DD, |AD, |DA, and |AA respectively.
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“The circuit of Fig. 1(b) therefore performs a cz gate with additional x gates on the control and target qubits.”
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“In the cw case, the major deviation from ideal operation is the larger than expected ii term (0.36 instead of 0.25).”
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“Modelling a gate using 0.28 reflectivities, we find the optimum process fidelity that can be obtained is F 0.28 P = 96%-near ideal.”
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“In fact, they are close to the four orthogonal separable states (|H ± e iϕ1 |V ) ⊗ (|H ± e iϕ2 |V ), where ϕ 1 = -3.07 and ϕ 2 = 0.32 as determined by a best fit.”
§ Demonstration of a Simple Entangling Optical Gate and Its Use in Bell-State Analysis > Abstract
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“We demonstrate operation of a controlled-z gate in both continuous-wave and pulsed regimes of operation, fully characterising it in each case using quantum process tomography.”
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“We demonstrate the operation of this type of gate using photons generated both by continuous-wave (CW) and by femtosecond pulsed parametric downconversion”
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“Here we take an alternative approach which does not require interferometric stability.”
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“The key advantage of the PPBS gate is that the polarisation modes are never spatially separated and recombined, and consequently no classical interference conditions are required.”
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“Due to the geometry of the source, and birefringence and geometric effects in the single mode fibers, the near-maximally entangled state produced is of the form |HH + e iϕ |V V .”
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“The tangle T = 0.93 ± 0.01 and linear entropy S L = 0.05 ± 0.01 show that this state is highly entangled and highly pure, the fidelity with a maximally entangled state is F = 98.0 ± 0.4%.”
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“The CW and pulsed gates have process fidelities of 74.6±0.3% and 84.0±0.1% respectively; and average gate fidelities of 79.7±0.2% and 87.2±0.1% [20].”
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“The four experimentally produced density matrices are shown in Fig. 3(e): the average of their fidelities is F = 95.8 ± 0.7%; the average of the tangles and linear entropies are T = 0.94 ± 0.02 and SL = 0.04 ± 0.01, respectively.”
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“To demonstrate this, we modelled their effect numerically, identifying single qubit unitary corrections which increased the CW and pulsed process fidelities to 77.0±0.3% and 86.6±0.2%respectively; and average gate fidelities to 81.6±0.2% and 89.3±0.1%.”
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“The CW and pulsed gates have process fidelities of 74.6±0.3% and 84.0±0.1% respectively; and average gate fidelities of 79.7±0.2% and 87.2±0.1% [20].”
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“While the PPBSs for the CW gate (optimized for 702.2 nm) were measured to be within ±0.01 of the required reflectivities, for the pulsed gate (820 nm), the values for the three PPBSs were η = 0.28, 0.28 and 0.29 (±0.01; normalised to output power).”
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“Despite more stringent temporal modematching requirements in the pulsed regime, the extra spatial filtering led to better gate operation, equivalent to the previous best demonstration [7].”
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“The average of the fidelities between all combinations of the measured output states is 24 ± 5% (ideally zero), demonstrating that the states are close to orthogonal.”
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“The results are shown in Fig. 3(c), and the average probability of success is 78 ± 3%, in agreement with the tomography results.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The four Bell states can be discriminated by the cz gate after a Hadamard rotation.
- Rests on an assumption: An ideal cz gate takes the four maximally entangled states |ψ′±, |φ′± to the four separable orthogonal states |DD, |AD, |DA, and |AA respectively.
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“The average fidelity of the measured output states with the above separable states is F = 79 ± 3%: if we analyzed the output of the circuit in this rotated basis, we would correctly identify the Bell-state with a probability of 79%.”
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“As originally anticipated in Ref. [13], the cz gate is relatively forgiving of the exact splitting ratios-making it an eminently suitable gate to be realised with a PPBS architecture.”
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“This cz gate is the simplest entangling (or dis-entangling) linear optics gate realized to date, requiring only three partially-polarising beam splitters (PPBSs), two half-wave plates, no classical interferometers, and no ancilla photons.”
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“It is nondeterministic and success is heralded by detection of a single photon in each of the outputs.”
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“Finally, we have demonstrated the operation of this gate as a Bell-state analyser which has the advantage of higher success probability and no ancillae compared to alternative recent demonstrations [9,27].”
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“In practice, these have no effect on gate quality and, if necessary, could be compensated for with appropriate wave plates.”
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The short pump pulses in pulsed parametric downconversion lead to more stringent temporal mode-matching requirements.
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The four Bell states can be discriminated by the cz gate after a Hadamard rotation.
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An ideal cz gate takes the four maximally entangled states |ψ′±, |φ′± to the four separable orthogonal states |DD, |AD, |DA, and |AA respectively.
“An ideal cz gate would take the four maximally entangled states |ψ ′± , |φ ′± to the four separable orthogonal states: |DD , |AD , |DA , and |AA respectively.”
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“An even simpler set-up becomes possible with polarization encoding (Kiesel et al., 2005b;Langford et al., 2005;Okamoto et al., 2005) which in turn could be already applied, e.g., to observe cluster states for one-way quantum computing (see below, Kiesel et al., 2005a).”
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“These results show that we have near-ideal algorithm performance, far better than we have any right to expect given the known errors inherent in the logic gates [8,29].”
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“We use a pair of compact optical gates [8,9,10], Fig 2c),e), each operating on a dependent pair of photons, resulting in measured visibilities for both of V r =98±2%.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Langford, N. K., Weinhold, T. J., Prevedel, R., Resch, K. J., Gilchrist, A., O’Brien, J. L., Pryde, G. J., & White, A. G.
- Affiliations
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- University of Vienna (AT)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2005-11-18
- Volume
- 95
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 210504-210504
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W1998141297
- Semantic Scholar
- d9688239d7e905dd0699832575c8889049b0add1
- Cited by
- 262
- References
- 24
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- FWCI
- 13.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
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- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
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- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Austrian Science Fund
- Queensland Government
- Agricultural Research Development Agency
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › 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 Mechanics and Applications
- Keywords
- controlled-Z gate, quantum process tomography, continuous-wave operation, pulsed operation, guided optics
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