title: Mirror inversion of quantum states in linear registers.
abstract: Transfer of data in linear quantum registers can be significantly simplified with preengineered but not dynamically controlled interqubit couplings. We show how to implement a mirror inversion of the state of the register in each excitation subspace with respect to the center of the register. Our construction is especially appealing as it requires no dynamical control over individual interqubit interactions. If, however, individual control of the interactions is available then the mirror inversion operation can be performed on any substring of qubits in the register. In this case, a sequence of mirror inversions can generate any permutation of a quantum state of the involved qubits.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom. claudio.albanese@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Albanese
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Christandl
authors.forename: Nilanjana
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Datta
authors.forename: Artur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ekert