Entanglement-assisted coherent control for deterministic quantum gate teleportation

Quantum gate teleportation enables spatially separated parties to implement nonlocal quantum operations using preshared entanglement, local operations, measurement, and classical communication. Here, we present a two-branch entanglement-assisted coherent-control architecture for the deterministic remote implementation of nonlocal two-qubit gates. In this architecture, the two parties coherently select between two pairs of local unitary operations acting on their respective input qubits, a structure that can be naturally encoded through spatial-path superposition. The protocol is formulated at the operator level, allowing deterministic operation to be established independently of the input-state parametrization and making its scope explicit. For two-qubit unitary targets, we show that the deterministic branch conditions restrict the nonlocal domain of the balanced two-branch ansatz: apart from local product operations, any implementable nonlocal unitary must be locally unitarily equivalent to the CNOT/CZ class. We construct explicit CNOT and controlled- Z realizations as two representatives of this unique nonlocal equivalence class. We also introduce a photonic path-encoding and destructive branch-readout scheme in which spatial path encodes the coherent-control degree of freedom and polarization carries the computational qubits, illustrating how the proposed architecture can be physically encoded.