Fusion of deterministically generated photonic graph states

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Main Authors: Thomas, Philip, Ruscio, Leonardo, Morin, Olivier, Rempe, Gerhard
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author Thomas, Philip
Ruscio, Leonardo
Morin, Olivier
Rempe, Gerhard
author_facet Thomas, Philip
Ruscio, Leonardo
Morin, Olivier
Rempe, Gerhard
contents Entanglement has evolved from an enigmatic concept of quantum physics to a key ingredient of quantum technology. It explains correlations between measurement outcomes that contradict classical physics, and has been widely explored with small sets of individual qubits. Multi-partite entangled states build up in gate-based quantum-computing protocols, and $\unicode{x2013}$ from a broader perspective $\unicode{x2013}$ were proposed as the main resource for measurement-based quantum-information processing. The latter requires the ex-ante generation of a multi-qubit entangled state described by a graph. Small graph states such as Bell or linear cluster states have been produced with photons, but the proposed quantum computing and quantum networking applications require fusion of such states into larger and more powerful states in a programmable fashion. Here we achieve this goal by employing an optical resonator containing two individually addressable atoms. Ring and tree graph states with up to eight qubits, with the names reflecting the entanglement topology, are efficiently fused from the photonic states emitted by the individual atoms. The fusion process itself employs a cavity-assisted gate between the two atoms. Our technique is in principle scalable to even larger numbers of qubits, and is the decisive step towards, for instance, a memory-less quantum repeater in a future quantum internet.
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spellingShingle Fusion of deterministically generated photonic graph states
Thomas, Philip
Ruscio, Leonardo
Morin, Olivier
Rempe, Gerhard
Quantum Physics
Entanglement has evolved from an enigmatic concept of quantum physics to a key ingredient of quantum technology. It explains correlations between measurement outcomes that contradict classical physics, and has been widely explored with small sets of individual qubits. Multi-partite entangled states build up in gate-based quantum-computing protocols, and $\unicode{x2013}$ from a broader perspective $\unicode{x2013}$ were proposed as the main resource for measurement-based quantum-information processing. The latter requires the ex-ante generation of a multi-qubit entangled state described by a graph. Small graph states such as Bell or linear cluster states have been produced with photons, but the proposed quantum computing and quantum networking applications require fusion of such states into larger and more powerful states in a programmable fashion. Here we achieve this goal by employing an optical resonator containing two individually addressable atoms. Ring and tree graph states with up to eight qubits, with the names reflecting the entanglement topology, are efficiently fused from the photonic states emitted by the individual atoms. The fusion process itself employs a cavity-assisted gate between the two atoms. Our technique is in principle scalable to even larger numbers of qubits, and is the decisive step towards, for instance, a memory-less quantum repeater in a future quantum internet.
title Fusion of deterministically generated photonic graph states
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11950