61 research outputs found
Strong Electron-Hole Exchange in Coherently Coupled Quantum Dots
We have investigated few-body states in vertically stacked quantum dots. Due
to small inter-dot tunneling rate, the coupling in our system is in a
previously unexplored regime where electron-hole exchange is the dominant spin
interaction. By tuning the gate bias, we are able to turn this coupling off and
study a complementary regime where total electron spin is a good quantum
number. The use of differential transmission allows us to obtain unambiguous
signatures of the interplay between electron and hole spin interactions. Small
tunnel coupling also enables us to demonstrate all-optical charge sensing,
where conditional exciton energy shift in one dot identifies the charging state
of the coupled partner.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Adaptive homodyne phase discrimination and qubit measurement
Fast and accurate measurement is a highly desirable, if not vital, feature of
quantum computing architectures. In this work we investigate the usefulness of
adaptive measurements in improving the speed and accuracy of qubit measurement.
We examine a particular class of quantum computing architectures, ones based on
qubits coupled to well controlled harmonic oscillator modes (reminiscent of
cavity-QED), where adaptive schemes for measurement are particularly
appropriate. In such architectures, qubit measurement is equivalent to phase
discrimination for a mode of the electromagnetic field, and we examine adaptive
techniques for doing this. In the final section we present a concrete example
of applying adaptive measurement to the particularly well-developed circuit-QED
architecture.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures. Published versio
Observation of bosonic coalescence of photon pairs
Quantum theory predicts that two indistinguishable photons incident on a
beam-splitter interferometer stick together as they exit the device (the pair
emerges randomly from one port or the other). We use a special
photon-number-resolving energy detector for a direct loophole-free observation
of this quantum-interference phenomenon. Simultaneous measurements from two
such detectors, one at each beam-splitter output port, confirm the absence of
cross-coincidences.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Multidimensional cluster states using a single spin-photon interface coupled strongly to an intrinsic nuclear register
Photonic cluster states are a powerful resource for measurement-based quantum
computing and loss-tolerant quantum communication. Proposals to generate
multi-dimensional lattice cluster states have identified coupled spin-photon
interfaces, spin-ancilla systems, and optical feedback mechanisms as potential
schemes. Following these, we propose the generation of multi-dimensional
lattice cluster states using a single, efficient spin-photon interface coupled
strongly to a nuclear register. Our scheme makes use of the contact hyperfine
interaction to enable universal quantum gates between the interface spin and a
local nuclear register and funnels the resulting entanglement to photons via
the spin-photon interface. Among several quantum emitters, we identify the
silicon-29 vacancy centre in diamond, coupled to a nanophotonic structure, as
possessing the right combination of optical quality and spin coherence for this
scheme. We show numerically that using this system a 2x5-sized cluster state
with a lower-bound fidelity of 0.5 and repetition rate of 65 kHz is achievable
under currently realised experimental performances and with feasible technical
overhead. Realistic gate improvements put 100-photon cluster states within
experimental reach
An unconventional geometric phase gate with two nonresonant quantum dots trapped in a photonic crystal cavity
We propose a scheme for realizing a two-qubit controlled phase gate via an
unconventional geometric phase with two nonresonant quantum dots trapped in a
photonic crystal cavity. In this system, the quantum dots simultaneously
interact with a large detuned cavity mode and strong driving classical light
fields. During the gate operation, the quantum dots undergo no transitions,
while the cavity mode is displaced along a closed path in the phase space. In
this way, the system can acquire geometric phases conditional upon the states
of the quantum dots. After implementing single-qubit operations, a two-qubit
controlled phase gate can be constructed.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figur
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