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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2022

Demonstration of a quantum SWITCH in a Sagnac configuration

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The quantum SWITCH is an example of a process with an indefinite causal structure, and has attracted attention for its ability to outperform causally ordered computations within the quantum circuit model. To date, realisations of the quantum SWITCH have relied on optical interferometers susceptible to minute path length fluctuations, complicating their design, limiting their performance and posing an obstacle to extending the quantum SWITCH to multiple parties. In this Letter we overcome these limitations by demonstrating an intrinsically stable quantum SWITCH utilizing a common-path geometry facilitated by a novel reciprocal and universal $\mathrm{SU}(2)$ polarization gadget. We certify our design by successfully performing a channel discrimination task with near unity success probability.

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hal-04029186 , version 1 (14-03-2023)

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Teodor Strömberg, Peter Schiansky, Robert Peterson, Marco Túlio Quintino, Philip Walther. Demonstration of a quantum SWITCH in a Sagnac configuration. Physical Review Letters, 2022, 131 (6), pp.060803. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.060803⟩. ⟨hal-04029186⟩
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