Quantum-cellular-automata quantum computing with endohedral fullerenes

Journal Article · Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2003 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.67.052318· OSTI ID:20636367

Twamley, J ^[1]

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1. Department of Mathematical Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, County Kildare (Ireland)

We present a scheme to perform universal quantum computation using global addressing techniques as applied to a physical system of endohedrally doped fullerenes. The system consists of an ABAB linear array of group-V endohedrally doped fullerenes. Each molecule spin site consists of a nuclear spin coupled via a hyperfine interaction to an electron spin. The electron spin of each molecule is in a quartet ground state S=3/2. Neighboring molecular electron spins are coupled via a magnetic dipole interaction. We find that an all-electron construction of a quantum cellular automaton is frustrated due to the degeneracy of the electronic transitions. However, we can construct a quantum-cellular-automata quantum computing architecture using these molecules by encoding the quantum information on the nuclear spins while using the electron spins as a local bus. We deduce the NMR and ESR pulses required to execute the basic cellular automaton operation and obtain a rough figure of merit for the number of gate operations per decoherence time. We find that this figure of merit compares well with other physical quantum computer proposals. We argue that the proposed architecture meets well the first four DiVincenzo criteria and we outline various routes toward meeting the fifth criterion: qubit readout.

• OSTI ID: 20636367
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Vol. 67, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.67.052318; (c) 2003 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DOPED MATERIALS
ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE
ELECTRONS
FULLERENES
GROUND STATES
INFORMATION THEORY
MAGNETIC DIPOLES
MOLECULES
NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
PARAMAGNETISM
PERFORMANCE
PULSES
QUANTUM MECHANICS
SPIN