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arXiv:2105.14910 · Physical Review A

Robust population inversion in three-level systems by composite pulses

Cheng Zhang, Yang Liu, Zhi‐Cheng Shi, Jie Song, Yan Xia, Shi-Biao Zheng

Published Apr 8, 2022• 19 citations
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Abstract

In this work, we exploit the idea of composite pulses to achieve robust population inversion in a three-level quantum system. The scheme is based on the modulation of the coupling strength, while the other physical parameters remain unchanged. The composite pulses sequence is designed by vanishing high-order error terms, and can compensate the systematic errors to any desired order. In particular, this scheme keeps a good performance under the disturbance of waveform deformations. This trait ensures that population inversion can be nearly obtained even when the pulse sequence has a short jump delay. As an example, we employ the designed composite pulse sequence to prepare the $W$ state in a robust manner in the superconducting circuits. The numerical results show that the fidelity can still maintain a high level in a decoherence environment.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.105.042414

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Abstract In this work, we propose a composite pulses (CPs) scheme by modulating phases to achieve high fidelity population transfer in three-level systems. To circumvent the obstacle that not enough variables are exploited to eliminate the systematic errors in the transition probability, we put forward a cost function to find the optimal value. The cost function is independently constructed either in ensuring an accurate population of the target state, or in suppressing the population of the leakage state, or both of them. The results demonstrate that population transfer is implemented with high fidelity even when existing the deviations in the coupling coefficients. Furthermore, our CPs scheme can be extensible to arbitrarily long pulse sequences. As an example, we employ the CPs sequence for achieving the three-atom singlet state in an atom-cavity system with ultrahigh fidelity. The final singlet state shows robustness against deviations and is not seriously affected by waveform distortions. Also, the singlet state maintains a high fidelity under the decoherence environment.
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