Dual computational basis qubit in semiconductor heterostructures
Matthew J. Gilbert, Richard Akis, David K. Ferry · Applied Physics Letters · 2003
Advances in quantum computing have revealed computing capabilities that threaten to render many of the public encryption codes useless against the hacking potential for a quantum-mechanical-based computing system. This potential forces the study of viable methods to keep vital information secure from third-party eavesdropping. In this letter, we propose a coupled electronic waveguide device to create a qubit with two computational bases. The characteristics we have obtained by simulating such devices suggest a possible way of implementing quantum cryptography in semiconductor device architectures.