On-chip path encoded photonic quantum Toffoli gate

The quantum Toffoli gate is one of the most important three-qubit gates,but it is challenging to construct a chip according to the complicated traditional circuit.Using the optimized 3D configuration with an overpass waveguide to reduce the circuit complexity,we successfully fabricate an on-chip path encoded photonic quantum Toffoli gate enabled by the 3D capability of the femtosecond laser direct writing(FLDW)for the first time to our knowledge,whose truth-table fidelity is higher than 85.5%.Furthermore,a path encoded four-qubit controlled-controlled-controlled NOT gate is written to confirm the scalability of this resource-saving technique.This work paves the way for the FLDW of more complex and powerful photonic quantum computation chips.