It is given the refinements and further development of NMR model of quantum register based on easy-axis nuclear spin-free antiferromagnet, which was presented previously in paper. The model suggests that external magnetic field is directed along the easy axis, normally to the plate surface and has a weak constant gradient along the nuclear spin chain of quantum register. In present paper it is evaluated the general expression for indirect coupling between nuclear spins due to hyperfine nuclear-electron coupling in substituted atoms and spin-wave propagation in antiferromagnet close to critical point of quantum phase transition in antiferromagnet of spin-flop type. It is given also an estimation of quantum states decoherence rate, which is caused by the interaction of nuclear spins with spin waves in antiferromagnet.
As a nuclear spin model of scalable quantum register, 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 is considered. It is formulated the generalized antiferromagnet Hamiltonian in spin-wave approximation (low temperatures) considering the inhomogeneous external magnetic field, which is directed along the easy axis normally to plane of the plate and has a constant gradient along the nuclear spin chain. Assuming a weak gradient, the asymptotic expression for coefficients of unitary transformations to the diagonal form of antiferromagnet Hamiltonian is found. With this result the expression for indirect interspin coupling, which is due to hyperfine nuclear electron coupling in atoms and the virtual spin wave propagation in antiferromagnet ground state, was evaluated. It is shown that the inhomogeneous magnetic field essentially modifies the characteristics of indirect interspin coupling. The indirect interaction essentially grows and even oscillates in relation to the interspin distance when the local field value in the middle point of two considered nuclear spin is close to the critical field for quantum phase transition of spin-flop type in bulk antiferromagnet or close to antiferromagnetic resonance. Thus, the external magnetic field, its gradient, microwave frequency and power can play the role of control parameters for qubit states. Finally, the one and two qubit states decoherence and longitudinal relaxation rate are caused by the interaction of nuclear spins with virtual spin waves in antiferromagnet ground state are calculated.
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.
A solid-state quantum computer conventionally requires the control lines for each qubit to operate individually. This makes quantum circuits complicated, especially in multi-qubit systems. Here we propose a simple single-qubit operation in a superconducting flux-qubit chain without control lines in an analogy of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) imaging technique. A superconducting flux qubit can be regarded as an artificial atom with spin 1/2 that can be manipulated by an external magnetic field. To identify the location of each qubit in the qubit chain, a static field gradient is introduced along the qubit chain. This magnetic field gradient causes differences in the Zeeman frequencies of each separate qubit. This allows a large number of distinct qubits to be individually addressed. Single-qubit operations are then possible when the external electromagnetic frequency is adjusted to the resulting energy-level separation of the target qubit.
Hybrid quantum registers consisting of different types of qubits offer a range of advantages as well as challenges. The main challenge is that some types of qubits react only slowly to external control fields, thus considerably slowing down the information processing operations. Here, we propose and demonstrate an indirect control scheme that allows us to control the nuclear spins of an NV center indirectly, by control operations applied to the electron spin, combined with free precession under the anisotropic hyperfine interaction. The scheme provides universal control and we present two typical applications : polarizing the nuclear spin and measuring nuclear spin free induction decay signal, both without applying radio-frequency pulses. This scheme is versatile as it can be implemented over a wide range of magnetic field strengths and at any temperature.
Quasi-one-dimensional (1D) antiferromagnets are good candidates to realize a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL), describing 1D interacting quantum systems, provided 3D coupling remains small as compared to temperature. In systems such as NiCl
2-4SC(NH
2)
2 (DTN), made of weakly coupled spin
S=1 chains, interchain coupling plays an important role at low temperature as it leads to antiferromagnetic long-range order below
1 K, corresponding to a Bose-Einstein condensate of magnons. Using time-dependent numerical simulations at finite temperature, the authors compute here the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation rate
1/T1, a key experimental quantity, and address the question of the low-temperature crossover between TLL predictions and the higher-temperature regime in purely
1D quantum spins chains. They also comment on the experimental observation of the TLL regime, possibly masked by
3D long-range order in materials such as DTN.