TY - JOUR
T1 - Constructing general unitary maps from state preparations
AU - Merkel, Seth T.
AU - Brennen, Gavin
AU - Jessen, Poul S.
AU - Deutsch, Ivan H.
N1 - Merkel ST, Brennen G, Jessen PS, Deutsch IH, Physical Review A. Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Vol 80, Issue 2, 023424, 2009. Copyright 2009 by the American Physical Society. The original article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.023424.
PY - 2009/8/28
Y1 - 2009/8/28
N2 - We present an efficient algorithm for generating unitary maps on a d -dimensional Hilbert space from a time-dependent Hamiltonian through a combination of stochastic searches and geometric construction. The protocol is based on the eigendecomposition of the map. A unitary matrix can be implemented by sequentially mapping each eigenvector to a fiducial state, imprinting the eigenphase on that state, and mapping it back to the eigenvector. This requires the design of only d state-to-state maps generated by control wave forms that are efficiently found by a gradient search with computational resources that scale polynomially in d. In contrast, the complexity of a stochastic search for a single wave form that simultaneously acts as desired on all eigenvectors scales exponentially in d. We extend this construction to design maps on an n -dimensional subspace of the Hilbert space using only n stochastic searches. Additionally, we show how these techniques can be used to control atomic spins in the ground-electronic hyperfine manifold of alkali metal atoms in order to implement general qudit logic gates as well to perform a simple form of error correction on an embedded qubit.
AB - We present an efficient algorithm for generating unitary maps on a d -dimensional Hilbert space from a time-dependent Hamiltonian through a combination of stochastic searches and geometric construction. The protocol is based on the eigendecomposition of the map. A unitary matrix can be implemented by sequentially mapping each eigenvector to a fiducial state, imprinting the eigenphase on that state, and mapping it back to the eigenvector. This requires the design of only d state-to-state maps generated by control wave forms that are efficiently found by a gradient search with computational resources that scale polynomially in d. In contrast, the complexity of a stochastic search for a single wave form that simultaneously acts as desired on all eigenvectors scales exponentially in d. We extend this construction to design maps on an n -dimensional subspace of the Hilbert space using only n stochastic searches. Additionally, we show how these techniques can be used to control atomic spins in the ground-electronic hyperfine manifold of alkali metal atoms in order to implement general qudit logic gates as well to perform a simple form of error correction on an embedded qubit.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.023424
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.023424
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:69449105122
VL - 80
SP - 1
EP - 8
JO - Physical Review A: covering atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum information
JF - Physical Review A: covering atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum information
SN - 2469-9926
IS - 2
M1 - 023424
ER -