Quantum computing using single photons and the Zeno effect
- 1 December 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 70 (6), 062302
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.70.062302
Abstract
We show that the quantum Zeno effect can be used to suppress the failure events that would otherwise occur in a linear optics approach to quantum computing. From a practical viewpoint, that would allow the implementation of deterministic logic gates without the need for ancilla photons or high-efficiency detectors. We also show that the photons can behave as if they were fermions instead of bosons in the presence of a strong Zeno effect, which leads to an alternative paradigm for quantum computation.Keywords
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