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Universal dynamical decoupling: Two-qubit states and beyond

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 117542 (Singapore)

Uhrig's dynamical decoupling pulse sequence has emerged as a universal and highly promising approach to decoherence suppression. So far, both the theoretical and experimental studies have examined single-qubit decoherence only. This work extends Uhrig's universal dynamical decoupling from one-qubit to two-qubit systems and even to general multilevel quantum systems. In particular, we show that by designing appropriate control Hamiltonians for a two-qubit or a multilevel system, Uhrig's pulse sequence can also preserve a generalized quantum coherence measure to the order of 1+O(T{sup N+1}) with only N pulses. Our results lead to a very useful scheme for efficiently locking two-qubit entangled states. Future important applications of Uhrig's pulse sequence in preserving the quantum coherence of multilevel quantum systems can also be anticipated.

OSTI ID:
21388711
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 81; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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