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This work shows a single two-level emitter in a chiral waveguide can produce a control-Z gate with about 99.2% simulated fidelity, a notable result for photonic quantum computing. These figures come from numerical optimization, not experimental hardware, so the gate still has to be built and measured before the scheme's real-world error rates are known. Readers tracking photonic qubits should watch whether the approach survives experimental losses and imperfect emitters.
A single quantum emitter now makes high-fidelity photon gates possible
Researchers demonstrated a scheme for implementing a high-fidelity non-linear phase shift on a photonic state using a single quantum emitter, showing a control-Z gate fidelity of 99.2%.
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University have demonstrated a new approach to building high-fidelity quantum gates for photons. The scheme relies on repeatedly scattering photons off a single two-level quantum emitter embedded within a specially designed waveguide. This simplifies previous methods that often required multiple complex components to mediate interactions between photons, which do not naturally interact. Through numerical optimization, the team shows that a control-Z gate fidelity of approximately 99.2% and a success probability of 99.6% for a Bell-state measurement are reachable with 17 scatterings. A harmonic trap, created through sequential application of dispersive elements and temporally varying phases, now confines photonic pulses to a Gaussian shape within a chiral waveguide, a key component in achieving high-fidelity quantum gate operations. This confinement mitigates wavepacket deformation, a longstanding challenge in manipulating photons for quantum information processing, and allows for precise control over their interaction with a two-level quantum emitter. The system’s architecture moves beyond earlier methods that relied on cascading scattering from multiple emitters to induce the necessary…
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