Quantum process tomography of a universal entangling gate implemented with Josephson phase qubits

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 409-413

  Bialczak, R C ^a   Ansmann, M ^a   Hofheinz, M ^a   Lucero, E ^a   Neeley, M ^a   Oconnell, A D ^a   Sank, D ^a   Wang, H ^a   Wenner, J ^a   Steffen, M ^a   Cleland, A N ^a,b   Martinis, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; QUBITS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARBITRARY SUPERPOSITION; CONTROLLED-NOT GATES; JOSEPHSON PHASE QUBITS; PROCESS TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTUM PROCESS TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE-SHOT MEASUREMENTS; SOLID STATE QUBITS; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS;

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 77953138193     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1639     Document Type: Article

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