Eur. Phys. J. D 38, 381-387 (2006)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2006-00010-x

Implementation of a CNOT gate in two cold Rydberg atoms by the nonholonomic control technique

¹ Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS II, Bâtiment 505, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
² 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

Abstract

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.