Chapter 158
Implementation of Quantum Optical
Phase Shift Gate Adopting Multi-passing
Technique in Lithium Niobate Based
Electro-Optic Crystal
Minakshi Mandal and Sourangshu Mukhopadhyay
Abstract Quantum phase shift gate operates ordinarily on a single qubit. Here the
authors propose a new scheme of implementation of quantum optical phase shift gate
adopting multi-passing technique in lithium niobate (LiNbO
3
) based electro-optic
crystal. By using the multi-passing technique the phase operation can be done by
very low voltage.
158.1 Introduction
Quantum logic gates are the basic quantum circuits which operate on qubits. Quantum
logic systems are important for very fast and secured computation, communication
and data processing due to its reversibility, large storage capacity and high degree of
parallelism [1–3]. There are so many quantum logic gates which are implemented
by various encoding approaches, such as polarization encoding, phase encoding etc.
Here in this paper the authors propose a new method of implementation of quantum
optical phase shift gate adopting the multi-passing technique in Lithium Niobate
based electro-optic crystal.
When a polarized light is passing through an electro-optic Pockels material, there
is seen a change in refractive index (r.i) occurring in the material. In case of lithium
niobate (LiNbO
3
) the change in refractive index is expressed as,
n
x
= n
0
-
1
2
n
3
0
r
13
E (158.1)
where, n
0
and r
13
are the constant r.i term and elctro-optic co-efficient of the
material respectively. E is the applied electric field to the material.
M. Mandal (B ) · S. Mukhopadhyay
Department of Physics, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan, West Bengal 713104,
India
e-mail: minakshi.bcc@gmail.com
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