Fast and robust quantum control for multimode interactions by using shortcuts to adiabaticity

TL;DR

This paper introduces a universal shortcut to adiabaticity protocol that enables fast, robust quantum control in multimode systems, significantly improving speed and robustness over traditional adiabatic methods, with successful application in photon-phonon state transfer.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel, universal protocol using shortcuts to adiabaticity for fast and robust quantum control in multimode interactions, outperforming traditional adiabatic methods.

Findings

Protocol speeds up quantum evolution effectively.

Maintains high robustness comparable to adiabatic control.

Successfully applied to photon-phonon quantum state transfer.

Abstract

Adiabatic quantum control is a very important approach for quantum physics and quantum information processing. It holds the advantage with robustness to experimental imperfections but accumulates more decoherence due to the long evolution time. Here, we propose a universal protocol for fast and robust quantum control in multimode interactions of a quantum system by using shortcuts to adiabaticity. The results show this protocol can speed up the evolution of a multimode quantum system effectively, and it can also keep the robustness very good while adiabatic quantum control processes cannot. We apply this protocol for the quantum state transfer in quantum information processing in the photon-phonon interactions in an optomechanical system, showing a perfect result. These good features make this protocol have the capability of improving effectively the feasibility of the practical applications of multimode interactions in quantum information processing in experiment.