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arXiv:cond-mat/0312349 · Physical Review Letters

Robust Two-Qubit Quantum Registers

I. A. Grigorenko, Dmitri V. Khveshchenko

Published Feb 3, 2005• 33 citations
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Abstract

We carry out a systematic analysis of a pair of coupled qubits, each of which is subject to its own dissipative environment, and argue that a combination of the interqubit couplings which provides for the lowest possible decoherence rates corresponds to the incidence of a double spectral degeneracy in the two-qubit system. We support this general argument by the results of an evolutionary genetic algorithm which can also be used for optimizing time-dependent processes (gates) and their sequences that implement various quantum computing protocols.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.94.040506

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