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Universal Quantum Computation with the Exchange Interaction

D. P. DiVincenzo, D. Bacon, J. Kempe, G. Burkard, K. B. Whaley

abstract: Experimental implementations of quantum computer architectures are now being investigated in many different physical settings. The full set of requirements that must be met to make quantum computing a reality in the laboratory [1] is daunting, involving capabilities well beyond the present state of the art. In this report we develop a significant simplification of these requirements that can be applied in many recent solid-state approaches, using quantum dots [2], and using donor-atom nuclear spins [3] or electron spins [4]. In these approaches, the basic two-qubit quantum gate is generated by a tunable Heisenberg interaction (the Hamiltonian is $H_{ij}=J(t){\vec S}_i\cdot{\vec S}_j$ between spins $i$ and $j$), while the one-qubit gates require the control of a local Zeeman field. Compared to the Heisenberg operation, the one-qubit operations are significantly slower and require substantially greater materials and device complexity, which may also contribute to increasing the decoherence rate. Here we introduce an explicit scheme in which the Heisenberg interaction alone suffices to exactly implement any quantum computer circuit, at a price of a factor of three in additional qubits and about a factor of ten in additional two-qubit operations. Even at this cost, the ability to eliminate the complexity of one-qubit operations should accelerate progress towards these solid-state implementations of quantum computation.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0005116
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
revtex, 2 figures, this version appeared in Nature
doi:
10.1038/35042541
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0005116
journal_ref:
NATURE, Vol. 408, p. 339-342 (2000)
created:
2000-05-26
updated:
2002-05-23

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