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Physica Scripta

Ultrafast geometric control of a single qubit using chirped pulses

Patrick Hawkins, Svetlana Malinovskaya, Vladimir S. Malinovsky

Published Feb 1, 2012• 3 citations
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Abstract

We propose a control strategy to perform arbitrary unitary operations on a single qubit based solely on the geometrical phase that the qubit state acquires after cyclic evolution in the parameter space. The scheme uses ultrafast linearly chirped pulses and provides the possibility of reducing the duration of a single-qubit operation to a few picoseconds.

DOI
10.1088/0031-8949/2012/t147/014013

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