arXiv:2211.13248 · Physical Review A

Designing dynamically corrected gates robust to multiple noise sources using geometric space curves

Hunter T. Nelson, Evangelos Piliouras, Kyle Connelly, Edwin Barnes

Published Jul 7, 2023• 12 citations

Abstract

Noise-induced gate errors remain one of the main obstacles to realizing a broad range of quantum information technologies. Dynamical error suppression using carefully designed control schemes is critical for overcoming this challenge. Such schemes must be able to correct against multiple noise sources simultaneously afflicting a qubit to reach error-correction thresholds. Here we present a general framework for designing control fields that simultaneously suppress both noise in the fields themselves as well as transverse dephasing noise. Using the recently developed space curve quantum control formalism, in which robust quantum evolution is mapped to closed geometric curves in a multidimensional Euclidean space, we derive the minimal conditions necessary to guarantee the simultaneous cancellation of both types of noise to leading order. In particular, we find that the cancellation of control field noise requires the derivative of the space curve to have zero-area projections, which is a much more subtle property compared to the closed-curve condition needed to suppress transverse dephasing. We present several techniques for solving both these conditions simultaneously and provide explicit examples of error-resistant control fields. Our work also sheds light on the relation between holonomic evolution and the suppression of control field errors.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.108.012407

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