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Natural two-qubit gate for quantum computation using the XY interaction

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v2 Condensed Matter

Abstract

The two-qubit interaction Hamiltonian of a given physical implementation determines whether or not a two-qubit gate such as the CNOT gate can be realized easily. It can be shown that, e.g., with the XY interaction more than one two-qubit operation is required in order to realize CNOT. Here we propose a two-qubit gate for the XY interaction which combines CNOT with the SWAP operation. By using this gate quantum circuits can be implemented efficiently, even if only nearest-neighbor coupling between the qubits is available.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0209035,
  title  = {Natural two-qubit gate for quantum computation using the XY interaction},
  author = {Norbert Schuch and Jens Siewert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0209035},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, REVTeX4; published version (minor changes, Appendix B added)