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Optimal control of a leaking qubit
Physical implementations of quantum bits can contain coherent transitions to
energetically close non-qubit states. In particular, for anharmonic oscillator
systems such as the superconducting phase qubit and the transmon a two-level
approximation is insufficient. We apply optimal control theory to the envelope
of a resonant Rabi pulse in a qubit in the presence of a single, weakly
off-resonant leakage level. The gate error of a spin flip operation reduces by
orders of magnitude compared to simple pulse shapes. Near-perfect gates can be
achieved for any pulse duration longer than an intrinsic limit given by the
nonlinearity. The pulses can be understood as composite sequences that refocus
the leakage transition. We also discuss ways to improve the pulse shapes.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
On the energy dependence of the D^+/D^- production asymmetry
In this paper we discuss the origin of the asymmetry present in D meson
production and its energy dependence. In particular, we have applied the meson
cloud model to calculate the asymmetries in D^-/D^+ meson production in high
energy p-p collisions and find a good agreement with recent LHCb data. Although
small, this non-vanishing asymmetry may shed light on the role played by the
charm meson cloud of the proton.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:hep-ph/000927
On the absorption and production cross sections of and
We have computed the isospin and spin averaged cross sections of the
processes and , which are crucial in the
determination of the abundances of and in heavy ion collisions.
Improving previous calculations, we have considered several mechanisms which
were missing, such as the exchange of axial and vector resonances (,
, , etc...) and also other processes such as and . We find that
some of these mechanisms give important contributions to the cross section. Our
results also suggest that, in a hadron gas, production might be more
important than its absorption
Magic state distillation with low overhead
We propose a new family of error detecting stabilizer codes with an encoding
rate 1/3 that permit a transversal implementation of the pi/8-rotation on
all logical qubits. The new codes are used to construct protocols for
distilling high-quality `magic' states by Clifford group gates and Pauli
measurements. The distillation overhead has a poly-logarithmic scaling as a
function of the output accuracy, where the degree of the polynomial is
. To construct the desired family of codes, we introduce
the notion of a triorthogonal matrix --- a binary matrix in which any pair and
any triple of rows have even overlap. Any triorthogonal matrix gives rise to a
stabilizer code with a transversal -gate on all logical qubits, possibly
augmented by Clifford gates. A powerful numerical method for generating
triorthogonal matrices is proposed. Our techniques lead to a two-fold overhead
reduction for distilling magic states with output accuracy compared
with the best previously known protocol.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
production and absorption in a hot hadron gas
We calculate the time evolution of the abundance in the hot hadron
gas produced in the late stage of heavy ion collisions. We use effective field
Lagrangians to obtain the production and dissociation cross sections of
. In this evaluation we include diagrams involving the anomalous
couplings and and also the
couplings of the with charged and mesons. With these new
terms the interaction cross sections are much larger than those found
in previous works. Using these cross sections as input in rate equations, we
conclude that during the expansion and cooling of the hadronic gas, the number
of , originally produced at the end of the mixed QGP/hadron gas phase,
is reduced by a factor of 4.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
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