arXiv:quant-ph/0602191 · IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO)

Decoherence of Dynamically Manipulated Qubits

Vladimir Privman A, Dmitry Solenov

Published Jan 1, 2006• 1 citation

Abstract

We summarize our results on decoherence for short-to intermediate-time dynamics of an externally controlled two-state quantum system—a qubit—interacting with thermal bosonic environment. The developed approximation schemes are illustrated for an adiabatic model with time-dependent gate control, and for a model with rotating-wave gate function.

DOI: 10.1109/nano.2006.1717240

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