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Quantum Computational Gates with Radiation Free Couplings
We examine a generic three state mechanism which realizes all fundamental
single and double qubit quantum logic gates operating under the effect of
adiabatically controllable static (radiation free) bias couplings between the
states. At the instant of time that the gate operations are defined the third
level is unoccupied which, in a certain sense, derives analogy with the
recently suggested dissipation free qubit subspaces. The physical
implementation of the mechanism is tentatively suggested in a form of the
Aharonov-Bohm persistent current loop in crossed electric and magnetic fields,
with the output of the loop read out by a (quantum) Hall effect aided
mechanism.Comment: 21 pages including 7 figures, revte
Decoherence-Free Subspaces for Multiple-Qubit Errors: (I) Characterization
Coherence in an open quantum system is degraded through its interaction with
a bath. This decoherence can be avoided by restricting the dynamics of the
system to special decoherence-free subspaces. These subspaces are usually
constructed under the assumption of spatially symmetric system-bath coupling.
Here we show that decoherence-free subspaces may appear without spatial
symmetry. Instead, we consider a model of system-bath interactions in which to
first order only multiple-qubit coupling to the bath is present, with
single-qubit system-bath coupling absent. We derive necessary and sufficient
conditions for the appearance of decoherence-free states in this model, and
give a number of examples. In a sequel paper we show how to perform universal
and fault tolerant quantum computation on the decoherence-free subspaces
considered in this paper.Comment: 18 pages, no figures. Major changes. Section on universal fault
tolerant computation removed. This section contained a crucial error. A new
paper [quant-ph/0007013] presents the correct analysi
Effects of noise correlations on the performance of quantum error-correcting and -avoiding methods
In the scope of this work the coherence of quantum information, which is encoded into a qubit register, is analysed. The qubit register is modelled by a spin chain with finite inter-spin distance. In most physically relevant realisations this spin chain irreversibly interacts with a surrounding environment, such that a spin-boson model is used to describe the setting. Due to the interaction decoherence occurs among the qubits register and quantum information gets lost. Mechanisms to slow down this decoherence process are investigated. For that purpose, the techniques of encoding qubits into decoherence-reduced subspaces and quantum error correction are used. In both cases only a linear subspace of the complete available Hilbert space of the spin chain is used as quantum code. The stability of such a code against decoherence has to be evaluated. This evaluation is performed on average over all states within the code by a code fidelity
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