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Pathway Provided To Scalable Quantum Computer Architectures with Non-Local Quantum Gates

March 2003

One of the basic requirements for building a scalable quantum computer is the need to interact arbitrary pairs of qubits (quantum bits) within the computer. However, most quantum interactions have only a short range, limiting interactions between qubits to those that are nearest neighbors. A chain of interactions between neighboring qubits would be required to connect distant qubits, which would be a burdensome communication cost.

In a recently submitted paper, David Song of the ITL Mathematical and COmputational Sciences Division, along with Carl Williams and Gavin Brennen the NIST Physics Lab have shown how one can efficiently solve this quantum communication problem To do this, they propose the use of a set of ancillary quantum bits to create a distant pair of entangled qubits. This entangled pair of atoms, or quantum resource, then can be used to efficiently perform or teleport a non-local quantum gate between any two distant qubits. The paper shows that this concept is robust even in the presence of quantum noise and decoherence.

This new concept effectively provides a means of building a quantum bus, a concept very similar to the classical bus connecting the basic architectural elements of the von Neumann computer. Together with the key building blocks of a quantum computer, the quantum bus provides a pathway to a scalable quantum architecture using non-local interactions.


Contact:
(bullet) Ronald F. Boisvert (NIST/MCSD)
See also:
(bullet) Research report: A Quantum Computer Architecture using Nonlocal Interactions
(bullet) NIST Quantum Information Program


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