Single-qubit gates in two steps with rotation axes in a single plane
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2013-03-05 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
Any single-qubit unitary operation or quantum gate can be considered a rotation. Typical experimental implementations of single-qubit gates involve two or three fixed rotation axes, and up to three rotation steps. Here we show that, if the rotation axes can be tuned arbitrarily in a fixed plane, then two rotation steps are sufficient for implementing a single-qubit gate, and one rotation step is sufficient for implementing a state transformation. The results are relevant for "exchange-only" logical qubits encoded in three-spin blocks, which are important for universal quantum computation in decoherence free subsystems and subspaces.
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@article{arxiv.1303.0297,
title = {Single-qubit gates in two steps with rotation axes in a single plane},
author = {Yun-Pil Shim and Jianjia Fei and Sangchul Oh and Xuedong Hu and Mark Friesen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.0297},
year = {2013}
}
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7 pages