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arXiv:quant-ph/0410140 · Physical Review Letters

Realization of a Decoherence-Free Subspace Using Multiple Quantum Coherences

Daxiu Wei, J. L. Luo, Xianping Sun, Xizhi Zeng, Mingsheng Zhan, Maili Liu

Published Jul 7, 2005• 13 citations
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Abstract

This Letter presents a two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) approach for constructing a two-logical-qubit decoherence-free subspace (DFS) by using four multiple-quantum coherences of a CH3 spin system as logical qubits. The three protons in this spin system are magnetically equivalent and can only be used as a single qubit in one-dimensional NMR. We have experimentally demonstrated that our DFS can protect against more types of decoherences than those of the one composed of four noisy physical qubits all with different chemical shifts. This idea may provide new insights into extending qubit systems in the sense that it effectively utilizes the magnetically equivalent nuclei.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.95.020501

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This study deals with the further development of nuclear spin model of scalable quantum register, which presents the one-dimensional chain of the magnetic atoms with nuclear spins 1/2, substituting the basic atoms in the plate of nuclear spin-free easy-axis 3D antiferromagnet. The decoherence rates of one qubit state and entanglement state of two removed qubits and longitudinal relaxation rates are caused by the interaction of nuclear spins-qubits with virtual spin waves in antiferromagnet ground state were calculated. It was considered also one qubit adiabatic decoherence, is caused by the interaction of nuclear spin of quantum register with nuclear spins of randomly distributed isotopes, substituting the basic nuclear spin-free isotopes of antiferromagnet. We have considered finally encoded DFS (Decoherence-Free Subspaces) logical qubits are constructed on clusters of the four-physical qubits, given by the two states with zero total angular momentum.
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We demonstrate coherent control of two logical qubits encoded in a decoherence free subspace (DFS) of four dipolar-coupled protons in an NMR quantum information processor. A pseudopure fiducial state is created in the DFS, and a unitary logical qubit entangling operator evolves the system to a logical Bell state. The four-spin molecule is partially aligned by a liquid crystal solvent, which introduces strong dipolar couplings among the spins. Although the system Hamiltonian is never fully specified, we demonstrate high fidelity control over the logical degrees of freedom. In fact, the DFS encoding leads to higher fidelity control than is available in the full four-spin Hilbert space.