A chiral quantum router with Rydberg atoms (B2)

Nikolaos E. Palaiodimopoulos, Simon Ohler, Michael Fleischhauer, David Petrosyan:  

Phys. Rev. A 109, 032622 (2024)

🔓 arXiv:2310.10390 (2023)

We exploit controlled breaking of time-reversal symmetry to realize coherent routing of quantum information in spin networks. The key component of our scheme is a spin triangle whose chirality is determined by the quantum state of a control qubit which thus defines the propagation direction, or a superposition thereof, of the quantum information. We then consider a particular realization of a coherent router using Rydberg atoms. Our results can facilitate scalable quantum information processing and communication in large arrays of Rydberg atoms.