702 research outputs found
Sampled-data design for robust control of a single qubit
This paper presents a sampled-data approach for the robust control of a
single qubit (quantum bit). The required robustness is defined using a sliding
mode domain and the control law is designed offline and then utilized online
with a single qubit having bounded uncertainties. Two classes of uncertainties
are considered involving the system Hamiltonian and the coupling strength of
the system-environment interaction. Four cases are analyzed in detail including
without decoherence, with amplitude damping decoherence, phase damping
decoherence and depolarizing decoherence. Sampling periods are specifically
designed for these cases to guarantee the required robustness. Two sufficient
conditions are presented for guiding the design of unitary control for the
cases without decoherence and with amplitude damping decoherence. The proposed
approach has potential applications in quantum error-correction and in
constructing robust quantum gates.Comment: 33 pages, 5 figures, minor correction
Arbitrary multimode Gaussian operations on mechanical cluster states
We consider opto- and electro-mechanical quantum systems composed of a driven
cavity mode interacting with a set of mechanical resonators. It has been
proposed that the latter can be initialized in arbitrary cluster states,
including universal resource states for Measurement Based Quantum Computation
(MBQC). We show that, despite the unavailability in this set-up of direct
measurements over the mechanical resonators, computation can still be performed
to a high degree of accuracy. In particular, it is possible to indirectly
implement the measurements necessary for arbitrary Gaussian MBQC by properly
coupling the mechanical resonators to the cavity field and continuously
monitoring the leakage of the latter. We provide a thorough theoretical
analysis of the performances obtained via indirect measurements, comparing them
with what is achievable when direct measurements are instead available. We show
that high levels of fidelity are attainable in parameter regimes within reach
of present experimental capabilities.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure
The Generalized Lyapunov Theorem and its Application to Quantum Channels
We give a simple and physically intuitive necessary and sufficient condition
for a map acting on a compact metric space to be mixing (i.e. infinitely many
applications of the map transfer any input into a fixed convergency point).
This is a generalization of the "Lyapunov direct method". First we prove this
theorem in topological spaces and for arbitrary continuous maps. Finally we
apply our theorem to maps which are relevant in Open Quantum Systems and
Quantum Information, namely Quantum Channels. In this context we also discuss
the relations between mixing and ergodicity (i.e. the property that there exist
only a single input state which is left invariant by a single application of
the map) showing that the two are equivalent when the invariant point of the
ergodic map is pure.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
Symmetrizing quantum dynamics beyond gossip-type algorithms
Recently, consensus-type problems have been formulated in the quantum domain.
Obtaining average quantum consensus consists in the dynamical symmetrization of
a multipartite quantum system while preserving the expectation of a given
global observable. In this paper, two improved ways of obtaining consensus via
dissipative engineering are introduced, which employ on quasi local preparation
of mixtures of symmetric pure states, and show better performance in terms of
purity dynamics with respect to existing algorithms. In addition, the first
method can be used in combination with simple control resources in order to
engineer pure Dicke states, while the second method guarantees a stronger type
of consensus, namely single-measurement consensus. This implies that outcomes
of local measurements on different subsystems are perfectly correlated when
consensus is achieved. Both dynamics can be randomized and are suitable for
feedback implementation.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
Strange attractor simulated on a quantum computer
We show that dissipative classical dynamics converging to a strange attractor
can be simulated on a quantum computer. Such quantum computations allow to
investigate efficiently the small scale structure of strange attractors,
yielding new information inaccessible to classical computers. This opens new
possibilities for quantum simulations of various dissipative processes in
nature.Comment: latex 4 pages, 4 figures, research at
http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.fr, one fig and discussion adde
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