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Experimental Hamiltonian Identification for Qubits subject to Multiple Independent Control Mechanisms

Sonia G. Schirmer

Published Jan 1, 2004• 2 citations

Abstract

We consider a qubit subject to various independent control mechanisms and present a general strategy to identify both the internal Hamiltonian and the interaction Hamiltonian for each control mechanism, relying only on a single, fixed readout process such as σ̂z measurements.

DOI: 10.1063/1.1834387

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