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arXiv:0907.2225 · Physical Review A

Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state protocols for fully connected qubit networks

Andrei Galiautdinov, Mark W. Coffey, Ron Deiotte

Published Dec 2, 2009• 12 citations
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Abstract

We generalize the recently proposed Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger tripartite protocol [A. Galiautdinov and J. M. Martinis, Phys. Rev. A 78, 010305(R) (2008)] to fully connected networks of weakly coupled qubits interacting by way of anisotropic Heisenberg exchange $g(XX+YY)+\stackrel{\ifmmode \tilde{}\else \~{}\fi{}}{g}ZZ$. Our model differs from the more familiar Ising-Heisenberg chain in that here every qubit interacts with every other qubit in the circuit. The assumption of identical couplings on all qubit pairs allows an elegant proof of the protocol for arbitrary $N$. In order to further make contact with experiment, we study fidelity degradation due to coupling imperfections by numerically simulating the $N=3$ and 4 cases. Our simulations indicate that the best fidelity at unequal couplings is achieved when (a) the system is initially prepared in the uniform superposition state (similarly to how it is done in the ideal case) and (b) the entangling time and the final rotations on each of the qubits are appropriately adjusted.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.80.062302

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We introduce a suit of simple entangling protocols for generating tripartite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger and W states in systems with anisotropic exchange interaction $g(XX+YY)+\stackrel{\ifmmode \tilde{}\else \~{}\fi{}}{g}ZZ$. An interesting example is provided by macroscopic entanglement in Josephson phase qubits with capacitive $(\stackrel{\ifmmode \tilde{}\else \~{}\fi{}}{g}=0)$ and inductive $(0<\ensuremath{\mid}\stackrel{\ifmmode \tilde{}\else \~{}\fi{}}{g}∕g\ensuremath{\mid}<0.1)$ couplings.
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We propose a way for generating nnn-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) entangled states with a three-level qubit system and $(n\ensuremath{-}1)$ four-level qubit systems in a cavity. This proposal does not require identical qubit-cavity coupling constants and thus is tolerant to qubit-system parameter nonuniformity and nonexact placement of qubits in a cavity. The proposal does not require adjustment of the qubit-system level spacings during the entire operation. Moreover, it is shown that entanglement can be deterministically generated using this method and the operation time is independent of the number of qubits. The present proposal is quite general, which can be applied to physical systems such as various types of superconducting devices coupled to a resonator or atoms trapped in a cavity.
The N-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state is an important resource for quantum technologies. We consider the task of GHZ encoding using all-to-all interactions, which prepares the GHZ state in a special case, and is furthermore useful for quantum error correction, interaction-rate enhancement, and transmitting information using power-law interactions. The naive protocol based on parallelizing cnot gates takes O(1)-time of Hamiltonian evolution. In this work, we propose a fast protocol that achieves GHZ encoding with high accuracy. The evolution time O(log^{2}N/N) almost saturates the theoretical limit Ω(logN/N). Moreover, the final state is close to the ideal encoded one with high fidelity >1-10^{-3}, up to large system sizes N≲2000. The protocol only requires a few stages of time-independent Hamiltonian evolution; the key idea is to use the data qubit as control, and to use fast spin-squeezing dynamics generated by e.g., two-axis twisting.
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