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Researchers propose quantum gates through controlled atomic collisions

Oct 28, 1998

Dieter Jaksch and colleagues propose moving trapped neutral atoms into controlled collisions to perform conditional quantum operations and create entangled states in optical lattices.

Why it matters

The proposal offers a route from trapping cold atoms to using their interactions for quantum logic, before the later Rydberg approach.

Dieter Jaksch · Hans-Jürgen Briegel · Ignacio Cirac · Peter Zoller · Innsbruck

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