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Toward an architecture for quantum programming
It is becoming increasingly clear that, if a useful device for quantum
computation will ever be built, it will be embodied by a classical computing
machine with control over a truly quantum subsystem, this apparatus performing
a mixture of classical and quantum computation.
This paper investigates a possible approach to the problem of programming
such machines: a template high level quantum language is presented which
complements a generic general purpose classical language with a set of quantum
primitives. The underlying scheme involves a run-time environment which
calculates the byte-code for the quantum operations and pipes it to a quantum
device controller or to a simulator.
This language can compactly express existing quantum algorithms and reduce
them to sequences of elementary operations; it also easily lends itself to
automatic, hardware independent, circuit simplification. A publicly available
preliminary implementation of the proposed ideas has been realized using the
C++ language.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figures, A4paper. Final version accepted by EJPD ("swap"
replaced by "invert" for Qops). Preliminary implementation available at:
http://sra.itc.it/people/serafini/quantum-computing/qlang.htm
Quantum Game of Life
We introduce a quantum version of the Game of Life and we use it to study the
emergence of complexity in a quantum world. We show that the quantum evolution
displays signatures of complex behaviour similar to the classical one, however
a regime exists, where the quantum Game of Life creates more complexity, in
terms of diversity, with respect to the corresponding classical reversible one
Spin state readout by quantum jump technique: for the purpose of quantum computing
Utilizing the Pauli-blocking mechanism we show that shining circular
polarized light on a singly-charged quantum dot induces spin dependent
fluorescence. Employing the quantum-jump technique we demonstrate that this
resonance luminescence, due to a spin dependent optical excitation, serves as
an excellent readout mechanism for measuring the spin state of a single
electron confined to a quantum dot.Comment: 11 pages, 4 eps figure
Wigner crystals of ions as quantum hard drives
Atomic systems in regular lattices are intriguing systems for implementing
ideas in quantum simulation and information processing. Focusing on laser
cooled ions forming Wigner crystals in Penning traps, we find a robust and
simple approach to engineering non-trivial 2-body interactions sufficient for
universal quantum computation. We then consider extensions of our approach to
the fast generation of large cluster states, and a non-local architecture using
an asymmetric entanglement generation procedure between a Penning trap system
and well-established linear Paul trap designs.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Spin-based optical quantum gates via Pauli blocking in semiconductor quantum dots
We present a solid-state implementation of ultrafast conditional quantum
gates. Our proposal for a quantum-computing device is based on the spin degrees
of freedom of electrons confined in semiconductor quantum dots, thus benefiting
from relatively long decoherence times. More specifically, combining Pauli
blocking effects with properly tailored ultrafast laser pulses, we are able to
obtain sub-picosecond spin-dependent switching of the Coulomb interaction,
which is the essence of our conditional phase-gate proposal. This allows us to
realize {\it a fast two qubit gate which does not translate into fast
decoherence times} and paves the road for an all-optical spin-based quantum
computer.Comment: 14 Pages RevTeX, 3 eps figures include
Ion induced density bubble in a strongly correlated one dimensional gas
We consider a harmonically trapped Tonks-Girardeau gas of impenetrable bosons
in the presence of a single embedded ion, which is assumed to be tightly
confined in a RF trap. In an ultracold ion-atom collision the ion's charge
induces an electric dipole moment in the atoms which leads to an attractive
potential asymptotically. We treat the ion as a static deformation of
the harmonic trap potential and model its short range interaction with the gas
in the framework of quantum defect theory. The molecular bound states of the
ionic potential are not populated due to the lack of any possible relaxation
process in the Tonks-Girardeau regime. Armed with this knowledge we calculate
the density profile of the gas in the presence of a central ionic impurity and
show that a density \textit{bubble} of the order of a micron occurs around the
ion for typical experimental parameters. From these exact results we show that
an ionic impurity in a Tonks gas can be described using a pseudopotential,
allowing for significantly easier treatment.Comment: Accepted for publication in Physical Review A (Rapid Communications)
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