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Physical Review A

Adiabatic geometric phase gate with a quantized control field

Shabnam Siddiqui, Julio R. Gea-Banacloche

Published Nov 30, 2006• 9 citations
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Abstract

We study the performance of an adiabatic geometric phase gate with a quantized driving field numerically and develop an analytical approximation that shows how the qubit becomes entangled with the driving field. This results in a scaling of the gate error probability versus the energy in the control field that has the same form as that found for dynamic, nonadiabatic gates, but with a prefactor that would typically be several orders of magnitude larger, because of the adiabaticity constraint. In the approximation we have used, which should be valid for sufficiently large control fields, the main source of decoherence (and hence error) is the ``which path'' information carried by the photons that would be radiated by the driven qubit.

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10.1103/physreva.74.052337

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While it is often thought that the geometric phase is less sensitive to fluctuations in the control fields, a very general feature of adiabatic Hamiltonians is the unavoidable dynamic phase that accompanies the geometric phase. The effect of control field noise during adiabatic geometric quantum gate operations has not been probed experimentally, especially in the canonical spin qubit system that is of interest for quantum information. We present measurement of the Berry phase and carry out adiabatic geometric phase gate in a single solid-state spin qubit associated with the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. We manipulate the spin qubit geometrically by careful application of microwave radiation that creates an effective rotating magnetic field, and observe the resulting Berry phase signal via spin echo interferometry. Our results show that control field noise at frequencies higher than the spin echo clock frequency causes decay of the quantum phase, and degrades the fidelity of the geometric phase gate to the classical threshold after a few (∼10) operations. This occurs inspite of the geometric nature of the state preparation, due to unavoidable dynamic contributions. We have carried out systematic analysis and numerical simulations to study the effects of the control field noise and imperfect driving waveforms on the quantum phase gate.
Geometric phases are used to construct quantum gates since it naturally resists local noises, acting as the modularized units of geometric quantum computing. Meanwhile, fast nonadiabatic geometric gates are required for reducing the information loss induced by decoherence. Here, we propose a digital simulation of nonadiabatic geometric quantum gates in terms of shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA). More specifically, we combine the invariant-based inverse engineering with optimal control theory for designing the fast and robust Abelian geometric gates against systematic error, in the context of two-level qubit systems. We exemplify X and T gates, in which the fidelities and robustness are evaluated by simulations in ideal quantum circuits. Our results can also be extended to constructing two-qubit gates, for example, a controlled-PHASE gate, which shares the equivalent effective Hamiltonian with rotation around the Z-axis of a single qubit. These STA-inspired nonadiabatic geometric gates can realize quantum error correction physically, leading to fault-tolerant quantum computing in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era.
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We decompose the quantum adiabatic evolution as the products of gauge invariant unitary operators and obtain the exact nonadiabatic correction in the adiabatic approximation. A necessary and sufficient condition that leads to adiabatic evolution with geometric phases is provided, and we determine that in the adiabatic evolution, while the eigenstates are slowly varying, the eigenenergies and degeneracy of the Hamiltonian can change rapidly. We exemplify this result by the example of the adiabatic evolution driven by parametrized pulse sequences. For driving fields that are rotating slowly with the same average energy and evolution path, fast modulation fields can have smaller nonadiabatic errors than obtained under the traditional approach with a constant amplitude.