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Title: Optimized pulses for the control of uncertain qubits

Journal Article · · Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States). Dept. of Scalable and Secure Systems Research
  2. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics; Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Center for Quantum Information Science
  3. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Advanced Device Technologies
  4. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Photonic Microsystem Technologies

The construction of high-fidelity control fields that are robust to control, system, and/or surrounding environment uncertainties is a crucial objective for quantum information processing. Using the two-state Landau-Zener model for illustrative simulations of a controlled qubit, we generate optimal controls for π/2 and π pulses and investigate their inherent robustness to uncertainty in the magnitude of the drift Hamiltonian. Next, we construct a quantum-control protocol to improve system-drift robustness by combining environment-decoupling pulse criteria and optimal control theory for unitary operations. By perturbatively expanding the unitary time-evolution operator for an open quantum system, previous analysis of environment-decoupling control pulses has calculated explicit control-field criteria to suppress environment-induced errors up to (but not including) third order from π/2 and π pulses. We systematically integrate this criteria with optimal control theory, incorporating an estimate of the uncertain parameter to produce improvements in gate fidelity and robustness, demonstrated via a numerical example based on double quantum dot qubits. For the qubit model used in this work, postfacto analysis of the resulting controls suggests that realistic control-field fluctuations and noise may contribute just as significantly to gate errors as system and environment fluctuations.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); Technical Univ. of Dortmund (Germany)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
1426922
Report Number(s):
SAND2011-2808J; SAND2012-0331J; PLRAAN; 470538; TRN: US1802975
Journal Information:
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Vol. 85, Issue 5; ISSN 1050-2947
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 26 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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