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Tue Oct 3 08:37:39 EST 2006
- [quant-ph/0609228]
- Title: Process tomography of ion trap quantum gates
- Authors: M. Riebe, K. Kim, P. Schindler, T. Monz, P. O. Schmidt, T. K. Koerber, W. Haensel, H. Haeffner, C. F. Roos, R. Blatt
- Abstract: A crucial building block for quantum information processing with trapped ions is a controlled-NOT quantum gate. In this paper, two different sequences of laser pulses implementing such a gate operation are analyzed using quantum process tomography. Fidelities of up to 92.6(6)% are achieved for single gate operations and up to 83.4(8)% for two concatenated gate operations. By process tomography we assess the performance of the gates for different experimental realizations and demonstrate the advantage of amplitude--shaped laser pulses over simple square pulses. We also investigate whether the performance of concatenated gates can be inferred from the analysis of the single gates.
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