An all-optical quantum gate in a semiconductor quantum dot.
We report coherent optical control of a biexciton (two electron-hole pairs), confined in a single quantum dot, that shows coherent oscillations similar to the excited-state Rabi flopping in an isolated atom. The pulse control of the biexciton dynamics, combined with previously demonstrated control of the single-exciton Rabi rotation, serves as the physical basis for a two-bit conditional quantum logic gate. The truth table of the gate shows the features of an all-optical quantum gate with interacting yet distinguishable excitons as qubits. Evaluation of the fidelity yields a value of 0.7 for the gate operation. Such experimental capability is essential to a scheme for scalable quantum computation by means of the optical control of spin qubits in dots.
Li
Xiaoqin
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Frontiers in Optical Coherent and Ultrafast Science (FOCUS), Harrison M. Randall Laboratory of Physics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1120, USA.
Wu
Yanwen
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Steel
Duncan
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Gammon
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Stievater
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Katzer
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Park
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Piermarocchi
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Sham
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