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arXiv:1110.6707 · Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Non-adiabatic Fast Control of Mixed States Based on Lewis–Riesenfeld Invariant

M. A. Fasihi, Yidun Wan, Mikio Nakahara

Published Jan 27, 2012• 21 citations
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Abstract

We apply the inversely-engineered control method based on Lewis-Riesenfeld invariants to control mixed states of a two-level quantum system. We show that the inversely-engineered control passages of mixed states - and pure states as special cases - can be made significantly faster than the conventional adiabatic control passages, which renders the method applicable to quantum computation. We devise a new type of inversely-engineered control passages, to be coined the antedated control passages, which further speed up the control significantly. We also demonstrate that by carefully tuning the control parameters, the inversely-engineered control passages can be optimized in terms of speed and energy cost.

DOI
10.1143/jpsj.81.024007

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