A two-qubit photonic quantum processor and its application to solving systems of linear equations.

ABSTRACT: Large-scale quantum computers will require the ability to apply long sequences of entangling gates to many qubits. In a photonic architecture, where single-qubit gates can be performed easily and precisely, the application of consecutive two-qubit entangling gates has been a significant obstacle. Here, we demonstrate a two-qubit photonic quantum processor that implements two consecutive CNOT gates on the same pair of polarisation-encoded qubits. To demonstrate the flexibility of our system, we implement various instances of the quantum algorithm for solving of systems of linear equations.

SUBMITTER: Barz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4137340 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature