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What is actually needed to quantum-compute with harmonic oscillators?
Thursday January 26, 2017
| 3:30 pm
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Presenter: | Hoi Kwan (Kero) Lau, Ulm University |
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| Series: | CQuIC Seminars | |
| Abstract: |
To implement quantum computers on harmonic-oscillator-liked systems, the conventional approach is to: 1) Cool the system to the ground state; 2) Specify two physical states as the encoding basis of a qubit; 3) Implement logic gates by engineering encoding-specific interaction. In our recent works, we show that all of these procedures are sufficient but not necessary. Specifically, we find a unified operation that can implement logic gates for any encoding [2]. The formalism permits a new class of encoding that a pure logical qubit is represented by a mixed physical state [1]. Because the purity of quantum system is not essential, the requirement of ground-state cooling can be relaxed. Additionally, our formalism can reduce the initialization energy, and protect the logical qubit against a wider class of noise.
Reference: [1] Hoi-Kwan Lau and Martin B. Plenio, arXiv:1608.03213 [2] Hoi-Kwan Lau and Martin B. Plenio, Physical Review Letters 117, 100501 (2016) |
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| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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