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arXiv:2006.09936 · Physical Review Research

Fast and robust quantum state transfer in a topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain with next-to-nearest-neighbor interactions

Felippo M. D'Angelis, F. A. Pinheiro, David Guéry-Odelin, Stefano Longhi, François Impens

Published Sep 23, 2020• 90 citations
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Abstract

We suggest a method for fast and robust quantum-state transfer in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain, which exploits the use of next-to-nearest-neighbor (NNN) interactions.The proposed quantum protocol combines a rapid change in the topological edge state, induced by a modulation of nearest-neighbor interactions, with a fine-tuning of NNN interactions operating a counterdiabatic driving which cancels nonadiabatic excitations.We use this shortcut technique on the edge states in order to obtain a quantum state transfer on a single dimerized chain and also through an interface that connects two dimerized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains with different topological order.We investigate the robustness of this protocol against both uncorrelated and correlated disorder and demonstrate its strong resilience to the former.We show that introducing spatial correlations in the disorder increases the robustness of the protocol, widening the range of its applicability.In comparison to traditional adiabatic methods, the short transfer time enabled by the NNN protocol in the SSH chains drastically improves the fidelity of the quantum state transfer.

DOI
10.1103/physrevresearch.2.033475

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The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain, which serves as a paradigmatic model for comprehending topological phases and their associated edge states, plays an essential role in advancing our understanding of quantum materials and quantum information processing and technology. In this paper, we introduce a hybrid analog-digital protocol designed for the nonadiabatic yet high-fidelity transfer of edge states in an SSH chain, featuring two sublattices, A and B. The core of our approach lies in harnessing the approximate time-dependent counterdiabatic (CD) interaction, derived from adiabatic gauge potentials. However, to enhance transfer fidelity, particularly in long-distance chains, higher-order nested commutators become crucial. To simplify the experimental implementation and navigate computational complexities, we identify the next-to-nearest-neighbor hopping terms between sublattice A sites as dominant CD driving and further optimize them by using variational quantum circuits. Through digital quantum simulation, our protocol showcases the capability to achieve rapid and robust solutions, even in the presence of disorder. This analog-digital transfer protocol, an extension of quantum control methodology, establishes a robust framework for edge-state transfer. Importantly, the optimal CD driving identified can be seamlessly implemented across various quantum registers, highlighting the versatility of our approach.
Shortcuts to adiabaticity have made topological edge-state transfer fast in the single-particle regime, but their extension to interacting systems is obstructed by nonlinear phase accumulation. We show that this obstruction can be removed in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains by making the next-nearest-neighbor shortcut hopping phase tunable. In the mean-field regime, this yields an exact nonlinear shortcut: one hopping quadrature keeps the state on the instantaneous dark-state trajectory, while the orthogonal quadrature cancels the interaction-induced self-phase modulation. The resulting protocol is nonperturbative in the mean-field interaction strength. When applied to the full Bose-Hubbard dynamics, the mean-field shortcut remains beneficial but saturates below unit fidelity, exposing genuinely many-body corrections beyond the product-state picture. We then optimize the transfer directly in the many-body Hilbert space and find that complex, phase-tunable next-nearest-neighbor hoppings recover near-perfect fidelity. Our results show that hopping phases are not merely a technical refinement, but a key control resource for fast and high-fidelity transport in interacting topological systems.
We present a fast and robust protocol for realizing topological quantum state transfer in a dimeric Su-Schrieffer-Heeger spin chain. By giving a more general condition sufficient for the resonant adiabatic evolution, we develop a method of constructing time-driving functions for topological quantum state transfer, which makes it possible to shorten the needed operation time via resonant adiabatic passage between topologically protected edge states. Compared with previous protocols, our protocol can shorten the operation time appreciably while maintaining robustness against disorder in the spin chain, thereby avoiding decoherence resulting from long-running evolution and increasing transmission efficiency. Numerical simulations demonstrate that our protocol possesses excellent robustness and scalability. Our results provide a promising route for the realization of fast and robust quantum state transfer in spin chain systems.
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We develop a theoretical framework for fast, robust and high-fidelity topological quantum state transfer in one-dimensional systems with long-range couplings, motivated by chains of Rydberg atoms with dipole-dipole interactions. Such long-range interactions naturally give rise to extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger and Rice-Mele models supporting topologically protected edge states. We show that these edge states enable high-fidelity edge-to-edge excitation transfer using both time-independent protocols, based on coherent edge state dynamics, and time-dependent protocols, based on adiabatic modulation of system parameters. Long-range couplings play a central role by enhancing the relevant energy gaps, leading to a substantial improvement in transfer efficiency compared to nearest neighbour models. The resulting transfer is robust against positional disorder, reflecting its topological origin and highlighting the potential of long-range interacting platforms for reliable quantum state transfer.
We propose a fast and robust quantum state transfer protocol employing a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain, where the interchain couplings vary in time. Based on simple considerations around the terms involved in the definition of the adiabatic invariant, we construct an exponential time-driving function that successfully takes advantage of resonant effects to speed up the transfer process. Using optimal control theory, we confirm that the proposed time-driving function is close to optimal. To unravel the crucial aspects of our construction, we proceed to a comparison with two other approaches: one where the underlying Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain is adiabatically time-driven and another where the underlying chain is topologically trivial and resonant effects are at work. By numerically investigating the resilience of each protocol to static noise, we highlight the robustness of the exponential driving.