https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2006-00010-x
Implementation of a CNOT gate in two cold Rydberg atoms by the nonholonomic control technique
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Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS II, Bâtiment 505, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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Department of Computing, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
Corresponding author: a etienne.brion@polytechnique.org
Received:
12
July
2005
Revised:
11
October
2005
Published online:
17
January
2006
We present a demonstrative application of the nonholonomic control method to a real physical system composed of two cold Cesium atoms. In particular, we show how to implement a CNOT quantum gate in this system by means of a controlled Stark field.
PACS: 02.30.Yy – Control theory / 03.67.Lx – Quantum computation / 03.65.Fd – Algebraic methods / 32.80.-t – Photon interactions with atoms
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2006
