14 research outputs found
Heisenberg Spin Bus as a Robust Transmission Line for Perfect State Transfer
We study the protocol known as quantum state transfer for a strongly coupled
antiferromagnetic spin chain or ring (acting as a spin bus), with weakly
coupled external qubits. By treating the weak coupling as a perturbation, we
find that perfect state transfer (PST) is possible when second order terms are
included in the expansion. We also show that PST is robust against variations
in the couplings along the spin bus and between the bus and the qubits. As
evidence of the quantum interference which mediates PST, we show that the
optimal time for PST can be smaller with larger qubit separations, for an
even-size chain or ring.Comment: 6 figures,submitte
Effect of Randomness on Quantum Data Buses of Heisenberg Spin Chains
A strongly coupled spin chain can mediate long-distance effective couplings
or entanglement between remote qubits, and can be used as a quantum data bus.
We study how the fidelity of a spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain as a spin bus is
affected by static random exchange couplings and magnetic fields. We find that,
while non-uniform exchange couplings preserve the isotropy of the qubit
effective couplings, they cause the energy levels, the eigenstates, and the
magnitude of the couplings to vary locally. On the other hand, random local
magnetic fields lead to an avoided level crossing for the bus ground state
manifold, and cause the effective qubit couplings to be anisotropic.
Interestingly, the total magnetic moment of the ground state of an odd-size bus
may not be parallel to the average magnetic field. Its alignment depends on
both the direction of the average field and the field distribution, in contrast
with the ground state of a single spin which always aligns with the applied
magnetic field to minimize the Zeeman energy. Lastly, we calculate
sensitivities of the spin bus to such local variations, which are potentially
useful for evaluating decoherence when dynamical fluctuations in the exchange
coupling or magnetic field are considered
Topology of Entanglement Evolution of Two Qubits
The dynamics of a two-qubit system is considered with the aim of a general
categorization of the different ways in which entanglement can disappear in the
course of the evolution, e.g., entanglement sudden death. The dynamics is
described by the function ~n(t), where ~n is the 15-dimensional polarization
vector. This representation is particularly useful because the components of ~n
are direct physical observables, there is a meaningful notion of orthogonality,
and the concurrence C can be computed for any point in the space. We analyze
the topology of the space S of separable states (those having C = 0), and the
often lower-dimensional linear dynamical subspace D that is characteristic of a
specific physical model. This allows us to give a rigorous characterization of
the four possible kinds of entanglement evolution. Which evolution is realized
depends on the dimensionality of D and of D \cap S, the position of the
asymptotic point of the evolution, and whether or not the evolution is
"distance-Markovian", a notion we define. We give several examples to
illustrate the general principles, and to give a method to compute critical
points. We construct a model that shows all four behaviors.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures, 2 tabl
Resonant Adiabatic Passage with Three Qubits
We investigate the non-adiabatic implementation of an adiabatic quantum
teleportation protocol, finding that perfect fidelity can be achieved through
resonance. We clarify the physical mechanisms of teleportation, for three
qubits, by mapping their dynamics onto two parallel and mutually-coherent
adiabatic passage channels. By transforming into the adiabatic frame, we
explain the resonance by analogy with the magnetic resonance of a spin-1/2
particle. Our results establish a fast and robust method for transferring
quantum states, and suggest an alternative route toward high precision quantum
gates
Mediated gates between spin qubits
In a typical quantum circuit, nonlocal quantum gates are applied to
nonproximal qubits. If the underlying physical interactions are short-range
(e.g., exchange interactions between spins), intermediate swap operations must
be introduced, thus increasing the circuit depth. Here we develop a class of
"mediated" gates for spin qubits, which act on nonproximal spins via
intermediate ancilla qubits. At the end of the operation, the ancillae return
to their initial states. We show how these mediated gates can be used (1) to
generate arbitrary quantum states and (2) to construct arbitrary quantum gates.
We provide some explicit examples of circuits that generate common states
[e.g., Bell, Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ), W, and cluster states] and
gates (e.g.,square-root-SWAP, SWAP, CNOT, and Toffoli gates). We show that the
depths of these circuits are often shorter than those of conventional
swap-based circuits. We also provide an explicit experimental proposal for
implementing a mediated gate in a triple-quantum-dot system.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, 2 table