Towards optimized suppression of dephasing in systems subject to pulse timing constraints

We investigate the effectiveness of different dynamical decoupling protocols for storage of a single qubit in the presence of a purely dephasing bosonic bath, with emphasis on comparing quantum coherence preservation under uniform versus nonuniform delay times between pulses. In the limit of instant...

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Published in:Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 2010-06, Vol.81 (6), Article 062321
Main Authors: Hodgson, Thomas E., Viola, Lorenza, D’Amico, Irene
Format: Article
Language:English
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APPROXIMATIONS
CALCULATION METHODS
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
DECOUPLING
DESIGN
ENVIRONMENT
EVOLUTION
FOCUSING
FUNCTIONS
MODIFICATIONS
NOISE
PERIODICITY
PRESERVATION
PULSES
VARIATIONS
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Summary:We investigate the effectiveness of different dynamical decoupling protocols for storage of a single qubit in the presence of a purely dephasing bosonic bath, with emphasis on comparing quantum coherence preservation under uniform versus nonuniform delay times between pulses. In the limit of instantaneous bit-flip pulses, this is accomplished by establishing a different representation of the controlled qubit evolution, where the decoherence behavior after an arbitrary number of pulses is directly expressed in terms of the uncontrolled decoherence function. In particular, analytical expressions are obtained for approximation of the long- and short-term coherence behavior for both Ohmic and supra-Ohmic environments. By focusing on the realistic case of pure dephasing in an excitonic qubit, we quantitatively assess the impact of physical constraints on achievable pulse separations, and show that little advantage of high-level decoupling schemes based on concatenated or optimal design may be expected if pulses cannot be applied sufficiently fast. In such constrained scenarios, we demonstrate how simple modifications of repeated periodic-echo protocols can offer significantly improved coherence preservation in realistic parameter regimes. We expect similar conclusions to be relevant to other constrained qubit devices exposed to quantum or classical phase noise.
ISSN:1050-2947
1094-1622
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.81.062321