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View SchemaCharge detection enables free-electron quantum computation
| Authors | C. W. J. Beenakker, D. P. DiVincenzo, C. Emary, M. Kindermann |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0401066 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0401066 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.020501 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.Lett. 93, 020501 (2004) |
Abstract
It is known that a quantum computer operating on electron-spin qubits with single-electron Hamiltonians and assisted by single-spin measurements can be simulated efficiently on a classical computer. We show that the exponential speed-up of quantum algorithms is restored if single-charge measurements are added. These enable the construction of a CNOT (controlled NOT) gate for free fermions, using only beam splitters and spin rotations. The gate is nearly deterministic if the charge detector counts the number of electrons in a mode, and fully deterministic if it only measures the parity of that number.
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