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arXiv:2012.04401

Detuning modulated universal composite pulses

Hadar Greener, Elica S. Kyoseva, Haim Suchowski

Published Dec 8, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present a general method to derive detuning-modualted composite pulses (DMCPs) as N rotations of a canonical two-state quantum system to create accurate and robust pulses that are independent of the initial state of the system. This scheme has minimal pulse overhead, and achieves pulses that are stable against amplitude errors well within the $10^{-4}$ threshold that may be suitable for quantum information processing (QIP), within the lifetime of the system. This family of pulses enables to overcome inevitable fabrication errors in silicon photonics, and relax the need for a precise initial state of light coupled into the system to achieve accurate light transfer. Furthermore, we extend universal DMCPs to n-level systems with irreducible SU(2) symmetry to create state transfer that is highly robust to errors in the pulse area from any initial state.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2012.04401

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