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Efficient Graph State Construction Under the Barrett and Kok Scheme
Recently Barrett and Kok (BK) proposed an elegant method for entangling
separated matter qubits. They outlined a strategy for using their entangling
operation (EO) to build graph states, the resource for one-way quantum
computing. However by viewing their EO as a graph fusion event, one perceives
that each successful event introduces an ideal redundant graph edge, which
growth strategies should exploit. For example, if each EO succeeds with
probability p=0.4 then a highly connected graph can be formed with an overhead
of only about ten EO attempts per graph edge. The BK scheme then becomes
competitive with the more elaborate entanglement procedures designed to permit
p to approach unity.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures. Small refinement
Quantum Computing with Globally Controlled Exchange-type Interactions
If the interaction between qubits in a quantum computer has a non-diagonal
form (e.g. the Heisenberg interaction), then one must be able to "switch it
off" in order to prevent uncontrolled propagation of states. Therefore, such QC
schemes typically demand local control of the interaction strength between each
pair of neighboring qubits. Here we demonstrate that this degree of control is
not necessary: it suffices to switch the interaction collectively - something
that can in principle be achieved by global fields rather than with local
manipulations. This observation may offer a significant simplification for
various solid state, optical lattice and NMR implementations.Comment: 3 pages inc. 3 figure
Hierarchical surface code for network quantum computing with modules of arbitrary size
The network paradigm for quantum computing involves interconnecting many
modules to form a scalable machine. Typically it is assumed that the links
between modules are prone to noise while operations within modules have
significantly higher fidelity. To optimise fault tolerance in such
architectures we introduce a hierarchical generalisation of the surface code: a
small `patch' of the code exists within each module, and constitutes a single
effective qubit of the logic-level surface code. Errors primarily occur in a
two-dimensional subspace, i.e. patch perimeters extruded over time, and the
resulting noise threshold for inter-module links can exceed ~ 10% even in the
absence of purification. Increasing the number of qubits within each module
decreases the number of qubits necessary for encoding a logical qubit. But this
advantage is relatively modest, and broadly speaking a `fine grained' network
of small modules containing only ~ 8 qubits is competitive in total qubit count
versus a `course' network with modules containing many hundreds of qubits.Comment: 12 pages, 11 figure
Efficient variational quantum simulator incorporating active error minimisation
One of the key applications for quantum computers will be the simulation of
other quantum systems that arise in chemistry, materials science, etc, in order
to accelerate the process of discovery. It is important to ask: Can this be
achieved using near future quantum processors, of modest size and under
imperfect control, or must it await the more distant era of large-scale
fault-tolerant quantum computing? Here we propose a variational method
involving closely integrated classical and quantum coprocessors. We presume
that all operations in the quantum coprocessor are prone to error. The impact
of such errors is minimised by boosting them artificially and then
extrapolating to the zero-error case. In comparison to a more conventional
optimised Trotterisation technique, we find that our protocol is efficient and
appears to be fundamentally more robust against error accumulation.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures; typos fixed and small update
Probabilistic growth of large entangled states with low error accumulation
The creation of complex entangled states, resources that enable quantum
computation, can be achieved via simple 'probabilistic' operations which are
individually likely to fail. However, typical proposals exploiting this idea
carry a severe overhead in terms of the accumulation of errors. Here we
describe an method that can rapidly generate large entangled states with an
error accumulation that depends only logarithmically on the failure
probability. We find that the approach may be practical for success rates in
the sub-10% range, while ultimately becoming unfeasible at lower rates. The
assumptions that we make, including parallelism and high connectivity, are
appropriate for real systems including measurement-induced entanglement. This
result therefore shows the feasibility for real devices based on such an
approach.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Simple Pulses for Universal Quantum Computation with a Heisenberg ABAB Chain
Recently Levy has shown that quantum computation can be performed using an
ABAB.. chain of spin-1/2 systems with nearest-neighbor Heisenberg interactions.
Levy notes that all necessary elementary computational `gates' can be achieved
by using spin-resonance techniques involving modulating the spin-spin
interaction strength at high frequency. Here we note that, as an alternative to
that approach, it is possible to perform the elementary gates with simple,
non-oscillatory pulses.Comment: 3 pages including 2 fig
Stabilisers as a design tool for new forms of Lechner-Hauke-Zoller Annealer
In a recent paper Lechner, Hauke and Zoller (LHZ) described a means to
translate a Hamiltonian of spin- particles with 'all-to-all'
interactions into a larger physical lattice with only on-site energies and
local parity constraints. LHZ used this mapping to propose a novel form of
quantum annealing. Here we provide a stabiliser-based formulation within which
we can describe both this prior approach and a wide variety of variants.
Examples include a triangular array supporting all-to-all connectivity, and
moreover arrangements requiring only or spins but providing
interesting bespoke connectivities. Further examples show that arbitrarily high
order logical terms can be efficiently realised, even in a strictly 2D layout.
Our stabilisers can correspond to either even-parity constraints, as in the LHZ
proposal, or as odd-parity constraints. Considering the latter option applied
to the original LHZ layout, we note it may simplify the physical realisation
since the required ancillas are only spin- systems (i.e. qubits,
rather than qutrits) and moreover the interactions are very simple. We make a
preliminary assessment of the impact of this design choices by simulating small
(few-qubit) systems; we find some indications that the new variant may maintain
a larger minimum energy gap during the annealing process.Comment: A dramatically expanded revision: we now show how to use our
stabiliser formulation to construct a wide variety of new physical layouts,
including ones with fewer than Order N^2 spins but custom connectivities, and
a means to achieve higher order coupling even in 2
Distributed quantum computation with arbitrarily poor photon detection
In a distributed quantum computer scalability is accomplished by networking
together many elementary nodes. Typically the network is optical and inter-node
entanglement involves photon detection. In complex networks the entanglement
fidelity may be degraded by the twin problems of photon loss and dark counts.
Here we describe an entanglement protocol which can achieve high fidelity even
when these issues are arbitrarily severe; indeed the method succeeds with
finite probability even if the detectors are entirely removed from the network.
An experimental demonstration should be possible with existing technologies.Comment: 5 pages, 4 fig
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