Shortcut to Adiabatic Passage (SHAPE) technique, in the context of coherent control of atomic systems has gained considerable attention in last few years. It is primarily because of its ability to manipulate population among the quantum states infinitely fast compared to the adiabatic processes. Two methods in this regard have been explored rigorously, namely the transitionless quantum driving and the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant approach. We have applied these two methods to realize SHAPE in adiabatic waveguide coupler. Waveguide couplers are integral components of photonic circuits, primarily used as switching devices. Our study shows that with appropriate engineering of the coupling coefficient and propagation constants of the coupler it is possible to achieve efficient and complete power switching. We also observed that the coupler length could be reduced significantly without affecting the coupling efficiency of the system.
Shortcut to Adiabatic Passage (SHAPE) technique, in the context of coherent control of atomic systems has gained considerable attention in last few years. It is primarily because of its ability to manipulate population among the quantum states infinitely fast compared to the adiabatic processes. Two methods in this regard have been explored rigorously, namely the transitionless quantum driving and the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant approach. We have applied these two methods to realize SHAPE in adiabatic waveguide coupler. Waveguide couplers are integral components of photonic circuits, primarily used as switching devices. Our study shows that with appropriate engineering of the coupling coefficient and propagation constants of the coupler it is possible to achieve efficient and complete power switching. We also observed that the coupler length could be reduced significantly without affecting the coupling efficiency of the system.
Shortcuts to adiabaticity, originally developed in the context of quantum control, are powerful tools for the design of high coupling efficiency, robust, and short coupled-waveguide devices. The counterdiabatic protocol cancels the unwanted coupling in system evolution by the addition of a counterdiabatic term. The invariant-based inverse-engineering approach designs system evolution using the decoupled eigenstates of the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant. The single-shot shaped-pulse technique directly parameterizes the solution of the coupled-mode equation. Starting from the counterdiabatic protocol, we show that these seemingly very different shortcuts to adiabaticity techniques are equivalent in the framework of coupled-waveguide systems. When combined with perturbation treatment of the coupled-mode equation, robust coupled-waveguide devices against errors can be obtained.
Quantum information, as a comprehensive subject of quantum mechanics and information science, has a broad theoretical research value and application prospect. As a resource of quantum information, quantum entanglement has been studied thoroughly, which is not only significant to understand the features of quantum mechanics, but also of great value to the development of the method new quantum information processing. Therefore, the generation of entangled state is widely studied theoretically. In comparison to low-dimensional entangled states, multi-dimensional entangled states are not only safe but also efficient and error-tolerant for quantum computation. The adiabatic technique is one of the most widely used and proven techniques in quantum information science. The main advantages of this technique are that it is insensitive to the fluctuation of experimental parameters, and the interaction time of the system is not required to be controled accurately. However, limited by the adiabatic condition, it usually takes relatively long interaction time in scheme via adiabatic technique to achieve the target states. If the required evolution time is too long, the scheme may be useless. To overcome this problem, researchers have done a lot in the field of finding ways to shorten the long interaction time of adiabatic passage. Among these works, the technique named shortcuts to adiabatic passage is a successful work in this field and it has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. In this paper, based on transitionless quantum driving to construct shortcuts to adiabatic passage, an efficient scheme to fast generate a four-dimensional entangled state of two-atom is proposed. The atoms are respectively trapped in the separate two-mode cavities which are connected by optical fiber. To achieve an alternative physically feasible system, the non-resonant dynamics is adopted to create a Hamiltonian which can exactly drive the system to evolve along the instantaneous eigenstates of the original Hamiltonian. As a result, if the system goes through adiabatic passage, it will evolve in the dark state, not transit to other states. Hence, using transitionless quantum driving to shortcuts to adiabatic passage, the evolutionary time in this scheme is much less than that in other schemes based on traditional adiabatic passage. The rigorous numerical simulations are conducted. The results show that with suitable pulsed laser parameters, this scheme is robust against decoherence arising from fiber decay, cavity decay and atomic spontaneous emission. Moreover, the scheme is more feasible in physics. That is, based on the proposed scheme, a high-fidelity four-dimensional entangled state of two-atom can be achieved.
Adiabatic processes are ubiquitous in physics and engineering.A drawback of such processes is that they tend to be slow, either in time-for atomic systems, for example-or in space-for photonic systems.A number of techniques have been developed over the years, generically referred to as Shortcuts to Adiabaticity, that promise to speed up the evolution of the process without compromising performance.Here we review and compare these techniques, and evaluate their performance using full numerical simulations of realistic two-waveguide couplers, which perform a key function in photonic circuits.
Recently, a novel three-dimensional entangled state called tree-type entanglement, which is likely to have applications for improving quantum communication security, was prepared via adiabatic passage by Song et al. Here we propose two schemes for fast generating tree-type three-dimensional entanglement among three spatially separated atoms via shortcuts to adiabatic passage. With the help of quantum Zeno dynamics, two kinds of different but equivalent methods, Lewis-Riesenfeld invariants and transitionless quantum driving, are applied to construct shortcuts to adiabatic passage. The comparisons between the two methods are discussed. The strict numerical simulations show that the tree-type three-dimensional entangled states can be fast prepared with quite high fidelities and the two schemes are both robust against the variations in the parameters, atomic spontaneous emissions and the cavity-fiber photon leakages.
By definition, quantum adiabatic process means a slow process which allows the state to follow the instantaneous eigenstates of time-dependent Hamiltonian. For some reasons, for example, to avoid the decoherence effects, or to implement large-scale quantum information processing, we may want to speed up the adiabatic process, that is, to achieve the adiabatic-like control but in very short time. In this talk, we present new methods to speeded-up expansion and transport of cold atoms in a harmonic trap. Such shortcuts to adiabaticity provide the fast expansion or transport, in which the final atomic state is the same as in the adiabatic process, but in arbitrarily short time, keeping the same populations of vibrational levels in the initial and final trap. These methods can also be generalized to Bose-Einstein Condensates. Moreover, we present shortcuts to adiabatic passage from one internal atomic state to another in twoor three-level atoms. In detail, we can apply Berry’s transitionless quantum driving method and invariant-based inverse engineering method to accelerate the Rapid Adiabatic Passage (RAP) and Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP) in twoand three-level atomic systems, respectively. We also examine and compare the stability of different schemes concerning different types of noise and system errors. Finally, we show that the technique of shortcuts to adiabaticity in two-level system can be applied in fast and robust spin flip in a quantum dot, to avoid the decoherent effects.
It is known that the dynamics and geometric phase of a quantum system can be simulated by classical coupled oscillators using the quantum−classical mapping method without loss of physics. In this work, we show that this method can also be used to simulate the schemes of quantum shortcuts to adiabaticity, which can quickly achieve the adiabatic effect through a non-adiabatic process. By mapping quantum systems by classical oscillators, two schemes, Berry’s “transitionless quantum driving” and the Lewis−Riesenfeld invariant method, are simulated by a corresponding transitionless classical driving method, which keeps adiabatic phase trajectories and acquires Hannay’s angle and the classical Lewis−Riesenfeld invariant method by manipulating the configurations of classical coupled oscillators. The classical shortcuts to adiabaticity for the two coupled classical oscillators, which is the classical version of a spin-1/2 in a magnetic field, is employed to illustrate our results and compared with quantum shortcuts-to-adiabaticity methods.