Shortcuts to Dynamic Polarization

TL;DR

This paper introduces fast, efficient dynamic polarization protocols for spin baths using shortcuts to adiabaticity, enabling improved polarization transfer and potential enhancements in qubit coherence for quantum technologies.

Contribution

It develops novel shortcut-based polarization protocols applicable to dipolar spin systems, leveraging integrability and Floquet-engineering for faster, more effective polarization transfer.

Findings

Protocol duration scales linearly with bath size

Prefactor significantly smaller than unassisted protocols

Potential to extend qubit coherence times

Abstract

Dynamic polarization protocols aim to hyperpolarize a spin bath by transferring spin polarization from a well-controlled qubit such as a quantum dot or a color defect. Building on techniques from shortcuts to adiabaticity, we design fast and efficient dynamic polarization protocols in central spin models that apply to dipolarly interacting systems. The protocols maximize the transfer of polarization via bright states at a nearby integrable point, exploit the integrability-breaking terms to reduce the statistical weight on dark states that do not transfer polarization, and realize experimentally accessible local counterdiabatic driving through Floquet-engineering. A master equation treatment suggests that the protocol duration scales linearly with the number of bath spins with a prefactor that can be orders of magnitude smaller than that of unassisted protocols. This work opens new pathways to cool spin baths and extend qubit coherence times for applications in quantum information processing and metrology.