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arXiv:quant-ph/0501007 · Physical Review A

Spin chains as perfect quantum state mirrors

P. Karbach, Joachim Stolze

Published Sep 29, 2005• 215 citations
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Abstract

Quantum information transfer is an important part of quantum information processing. Several proposals for quantum information transfer along linear arrays of nearest-neighbor coupled qubits or spins were made recently. Perfect transfer was shown to exist in two models with specifically designed strongly inhomogeneous couplings. We show that perfect transfer occurs in an entire class of chains, including systems whose nearest-neighbor couplings vary only weakly along the chain. The key to these observations is the Jordan-Wigner mapping of spins to noninteracting lattice fermions that display perfectly periodic dynamics if the single-particle energy spectrum is appropriate. After a half-period of that dynamics, any state is transformed into its mirror image with respect to the center of the chain. The absence of fermion interactions preserves these features at an arbitrary temperature and allows for the transfer of nontrivially entangled states of several spins or qubits.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.72.030301

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A method to systematically construct the XXXXXX quantum spin chains with nearest-neighbor interactions that allow perfect state transfer (PST) is shown. Sets of orthogonal polynomials (OPs) are in correspondence with such systems. The key observation is that for any admissible one-excitation energy spectrum, the weight function of the associated OPs is uniquely prescribed. This entails the complete characterization of these PST models with the mirror-symmetry property arising as a corollary. A simple and efficient algorithm to obtain the corresponding Hamiltonians is presented. A model connected to a special case of the symmetric qqq-Racah polynomials is offered. An explanation of how additional models with PST can be derived from a parent system by removing energy levels from the one-excitation spectrum of the latter is given. This is achieved through Christoffel transformations and is also completely constructive in regards to the Hamiltonians.
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In this paper we build on the ideas presented in previous works for perfectly transferring a quantum state between opposite ends of a spin chain using a fixed Hamiltonian. While all previous studies have concentrated on nearest-neighbor couplings, we demonstrate how to incorporate additional terms in the Hamiltonian by solving an inverse eigenvalue problem. We also explore issues relating to the choice of the eigenvalue spectrum of the Hamiltonian, such as the tolerance to errors and the rate of information transfer.
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