skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Accelerated quantum control using superadiabatic dynamics in a solid-state lambda system

Journal Article · · Nature Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3967· OSTI ID:1352887
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [1];  [3];  [1];  [4];  [4];  [2];  [3]
  1. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Inst. for Molecular Engineering
  2. McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada). Dept of Physics
  3. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Inst. for Molecular Engineering; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division
  4. Univ. of Konstanz (Germany). Dept. of Physics

Adiabatic evolutions find widespread utility in applications to quantum state engineering1 , geometric quantum computation2 , and quantum simulation3 . Although offering desirable robustness to experimental imperfections, adiabatic techniques are susceptible to decoherence during their long operation time. A recent strategy termed ‘shortcuts to adiabaticity’ 4–10 (STA) aims to circumvent this trade-off by designing fast dynamics to reproduce the results of infinitely slow, adiabatic processes. Here, as a realization of this strategy, we implement ‘superadiabatic’ transitionless driving11 (SATD) to speed up stimulated Raman adiabatic passage1,12–15 (STIRAP) in a solid-state lambda (Λ) system. Utilizing optical transitions to a dissipative excited state in the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond, we demonstrate the accelerated performance of different shortcut trajectories for population transfer and for the transfer and initialization of coherent superpositions. We reveal that SATD protocols exhibit robustness to dissipation and experimental uncertainty, and can be optimized when these effects are present. These results motivate STA as a promising tool for controlling open quantum systems comprising individual or hybrid nanomechanical, superconducting, and photonic elements in the solid state12–17.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1352887
Journal Information:
Nature Physics, Vol. 13, Issue 4; ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group (NPG)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 166 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (41)

Shortcut to Adiabatic Passage in Two- and Three-Level Atoms journal September 2010
Speeding up Adiabatic Quantum State Transfer by Using Dressed States journal June 2016
Experimental Implementation of Assisted Quantum Adiabatic Passage in a Single Spin journal June 2013
Optimum pulse shapes for stimulated Raman adiabatic passage journal July 2009
Control and Coherence of the Optical Transition of Single Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond journal October 2010
Assisted Finite-Rate Adiabatic Passage Across a Quantum Critical Point: Exact Solution for the Quantum Ising Model journal September 2012
Coherent manipulation, measurement and entanglement of individual solid-state spins using optical fields journal May 2015
Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond: Nanoscale Sensors for Physics and Biology journal April 2014
Lewis-Riesenfeld invariants and transitionless quantum driving journal June 2011
Raman coherence in a circuit quantum electrodynamics lambda system journal November 2015
Shortcuts to adiabaticity by counterdiabatic driving for trapped-ion displacement in phase space journal September 2016
Coherent feedback control of a single qubit in diamond journal April 2016
Coherent Population Trapping of Single Spins in Diamond under Optical Excitation journal December 2006
Widespread transcription at neuronal activity-regulated enhancers journal April 2010
Experimental realization of stimulated Raman shortcut-to-adiabatic passage with cold atoms journal August 2016
Multiple Schrödinger Pictures and Dynamics in Shortcuts to Adiabaticity journal September 2012
Quantum error correction in a solid-state hybrid spin register journal February 2014
All-optical control of a solid-state spin using coherent dark states journal April 2013
Laser cooling and real-time measurement of the nuclear spin environment of a solid-state qubit journal October 2011
High-fidelity quantum driving journal December 2011
Holonomic quantum computation journal December 1999
Universal control and error correction in multi-qubit spin registers in diamond journal February 2014
Adiabatic Population Transfer with Control Fields journal November 2003
Optically Driven Rabi Oscillations and Adiabatic Passage of Single Electron Spins in Diamond journal March 2014
Coherent population transfer between uncoupled or weakly coupled states in ladder-type superconducting qutrits journal March 2016
Optomechanical Dark Mode journal November 2012
L ASER -I NDUCED P OPULATION T RANSFER BY A DIABATIC P ASSAGE T ECHNIQUES journal October 2001
Transitionless quantum driving journal August 2009
Shortcut to adiabaticity for an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate journal January 2011
Optical manipulation of the Berry phase in a solid-state spin qubit journal February 2016
Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in a three-level superconducting circuit journal February 2016
Quantum simulation of frustrated Ising spins with trapped ions journal June 2010
Optomechanical dark mode conference May 2013
Shortcut to adiabaticity for an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate text January 2010
High-fidelity quantum driving text January 2011
Assisted finite-rate adiabatic passage across a quantum critical point: Exact solution for the quantum Ising model text January 2012
Universal control and error correction in multi-qubit spin registers in diamond text January 2013
Quantum error correction in a solid-state hybrid spin register text January 2013
Speeding up adiabatic quantum state transfer by using dressed states text January 2015
Shortcuts to adiabaticity by counterdiabatic driving for trapped-ion displacement in phase space text January 2016
Holonomic Quantum Computation text January 1999

Cited By (77)

Geometric Quantum Computation with Shortcuts to Adiabaticity journal May 2019
Dressed-state scheme for a fast CNOT gate journal October 2017
Proposal of realizing superadiabatic geometric quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces journal November 2018
Simulating a topological transition in a superconducting phase qubit by fast adiabatic trajectories journal January 2018
Quantum technologies with optically interfaced solid-state spins journal August 2018
Reverse engineering protocols for controlling spin dynamics journal November 2017
Fast quantum control in dissipative systems using dissipationless solutions journal March 2019
Speeding up adiabatic state conversion in optomechanical systems journal May 2019
Invariant-based optimal composite stimulated Raman exact passage journal October 2019
Fast quantum state transfer in hybrid quantum dot-metal nanoparticle systems by shaping ultrafast laser pulses journal August 2019
Fast long-range charge transfer in quantum dot arrays journal October 2018
Fast state transfer in a Λ-system: a shortcut-to-adiabaticity approach to robust and resource optimized control journal February 2018
The experimental realization of high-fidelity ‘shortcut-to-adiabaticity’ quantum gates in a superconducting Xmon qubit journal June 2018
Experimental demonstration of work fluctuations along a shortcut to adiabaticity with a superconducting Xmon qubit journal August 2018
Universal speeded-up adiabatic geometric quantum computation in three-level systems via counterdiabatic driving journal July 2019
Optimal superadiabatic population transfer and gates by dynamical phase corrections journal February 2018
Optimal quantum optical control of spin in diamond journal July 2019
Swift heat transfer by fast-forward driving in open quantum systems journal July 2019
Floquet-engineered quantum state manipulation in a noisy qubit journal July 2019
Robust and highly efficient discrimination of chiral molecules through three-mode parallel paths journal October 2019
Optimal shortcut approach based on an easily obtained intermediate Hamiltonian journal June 2017
Quantized interlevel character in quantum systems journal March 2018
Fast and robust control of two interacting spins journal June 2018
Gradient-based optimal control of open quantum systems using quantum trajectories and automatic differentiation journal May 2019
Adiabatic population transfer of dressed spin states with quantum optimal control journal June 2019
Experimental Realization of a Fast Controlled- Z Gate via a Shortcut to Adiabaticity journal March 2019
Dynamical Decoupling of a Geometric Qubit journal November 2019
Quantum Properties of Dichroic Silicon Vacancies in Silicon Carbide journal March 2018
Thermal bath engineering for swift equilibration journal July 2018
Holonomic Quantum Control by Coherent Optical Excitation in Diamond journal October 2017
Realization of a Λ System with Metastable States of a Capacitively Shunted Fluxonium journal April 2018
Glassy Phase of Optimal Quantum Control journal January 2019
Experimental Realization of Nonadiabatic Shortcut to Non-Abelian Geometric Gates journal February 2019
Initialization of Single Spin Dressed States using Shortcuts to Adiabaticity journal March 2019
Floquet-Engineering Counterdiabatic Protocols in Quantum Many-Body Systems journal August 2019
Time-rescaled quantum dynamics as a shortcut to adiabaticity journal February 2020
Systematic Magnus-Based Approach for Suppressing Leakage and Nonadiabatic Errors in Quantum Dynamics journal February 2017
Reinforcement Learning in Different Phases of Quantum Control journal September 2018
Scaling Phononic Quantum Networks of Solid-State Spins with Closed Mechanical Subsystems journal November 2018
Shortcuts to adiabaticity: Concepts, methods, and applications journal October 2019
Superadiabatic population transfer in a three-level superconducting circuit journal February 2019
Breaking the quantum adiabatic speed limit by jumping along geodesics journal June 2019
Fast creation and transfer of coherence in triple quantum dots by using shortcuts to adiabaticity journal January 2018
Fast and robust quantum control for multimode interactions using shortcuts to adiabaticity journal January 2019
Inverse engineering of shortcut pulses for high fidelity initialization on qubits closely spaced in frequency journal January 2019
Roadmap on STIRAP applications text January 2019
Spin coherent quantum transport of electrons between defects in diamond journal August 2019
Theoretical Study on Spin-Selective Coherent Electron Transfer in a Quantum Dot Array journal December 2019
Controlling the speed and trajectory of evolution with counterdiabatic driving journal August 2020
Roadmap on STIRAP applications other January 2019
Roadmap on STIRAP applications journal September 2019
Roadmap on STIRAP applications text January 2019
Systematic Magnus-based approach for suppressing leakage and non-adiabatic errors in quantum dynamics text January 2016
Reinforcement Learning in Different Phases of Quantum Control text January 2017
Breaking the quantum adiabatic speed limit by jumping along geodesics text January 2017
A Quantized Inter-level Character in Quantum Systems text January 2017
Simulating a Topological Transition in a Superconducting Phase Qubit by Fast Adiabatic Trajectories preprint January 2017
Thermal bath Engineering for Swift Equilibration text January 2018
Glassy Phase of Optimal Quantum Control text January 2018
Scaling Phononic Quantum Networks of Solid-State Spins with Closed Mechanical Subsystems text January 2018
Experimental Realization of Nonadiabatic Shortcut to Non-Abelian Geometric Gates text January 2018
Fast and robust control of two interacting spins text January 2018
Experimental demonstration of work fluctuations along a shortcut to adiabaticity with a superconducting Xmon qubit text January 2018
Fast quantum control in dissipative systems using dissipationless solutions text January 2018
Fast and robust quantum control for multimode interactions by using shortcuts to adiabaticity text January 2018
Universal speeded-up adiabatic geometric quantum computation in three-level systems via counterdiabatic driving text January 2018
Gradient-based optimal control of open quantum systems using quantum trajectories and automatic differentiation text January 2019
Initialisation of single spin dressed states using shortcuts to adiabaticity text January 2019
Adiabatic population transfer of dressed spin states with quantum optimal control text January 2019
Floquet-engineering counterdiabatic protocols in quantum many-body systems text January 2019
Time-rescaled quantum dynamics as a shortcut to adiabaticity text January 2019
Roadmap on STIRAP applications text January 2019
Superadiabatic population transfer in a three-level superconducting circuit text January 2019
Optimized three-level quantum transfers based on frequency-modulated optical excitations journal February 2020
Fast adiabatic quantum state transfer and entanglement generation between two atoms via dressed states journal April 2017
Reverse engineering protocols for controlling spin dynamics text January 2017
Enhancing quantum annealing performance by a degenerate two-level system text January 2019

Similar Records

Adiabatic creation of coherent superposition states in atomic beams
Journal Article · Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 2004 · Physical Review. A · OSTI ID:1352887

Superadiabatic scheme for optimizing the fast generation of tree-type 3D entanglement
Journal Article · Wed Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Annals of Physics · OSTI ID:1352887

Adiabatic approximation for quantum dissipative systems: Formulation, topology, and superadiabatic tracking
Journal Article · Sun Aug 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Physical Review. A · OSTI ID:1352887