RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A quantum Fredkin gate
JF Science Advances
JO Sci Adv
FD American Association for the Advancement of Science
SP e1501531
DO 10.1126/sciadv.1501531
VO 2
IS 3
A1 Patel, Raj B.
A1 Ho, Joseph
A1 Ferreyrol, Franck
A1 Ralph, Timothy C.
A1 Pryde, Geoff J.
YR 2016
UL http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/3/e1501531.abstract
AB Minimizing the resources required to build logic gates into useful processing circuits is key to realizing quantum computers. Although the salient features of a quantum computer have been shown in proof-of-principle experiments, difficulties in scaling quantum systems have made more complex operations intractable. This is exemplified in the classical Fredkin (controlled-SWAP) gate for which, despite theoretical proposals, no quantum analog has been realized. By adding control to the SWAP unitary, we use photonic qubit logic to demonstrate the first quantum Fredkin gate, which promises many applications in quantum information and measurement. We implement example algorithms and generate the highest-fidelity three-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states to date. The technique we use allows one to add a control operation to a black-box unitary, something that is impossible in the standard circuit model. Our experiment represents the first use of this technique to control a two-qubit operation and paves the way for larger controlled circuits to be realized efficiently.