Decoherences-protected implementation of quantum gates

TL;DR

This paper proposes a method to implement universal quantum gates that are protected against decoherence using dynamical decoupling, without requiring encoding, by designing system evolutions that commute with decoupling pulses.

Contribution

The scheme enables decoherence-protected quantum gate implementation through commutation-based dynamical decoupling, applicable even with imperfect control and without encoding.

Findings

Effective decoherence suppression via pulse sequences

Robustness against various decoherence types

Compatibility with imperfect system control

Abstract

We present a scheme to implement a universal set of quantum gates based on achievable interactions, and the gates can be protected against decoherences through dynamical-decoupling approach without encoding. By properly designing system evolutions, the desired system interactions commute with the elements forming dynamical decoupling pulses. Thus, the effect of decoherences can be eliminated by repeatedly applying the pulses, without noticeably affecting the system evolutions governed by the desired system interactions given small enough time interval between pulses. Moreover, due to the commutation between the elements forming the pulses and the desired system interactions, our scheme is resistant to different types of decoherences, and so not limited to specific decoherences. Our scheme also works well in the case that the desired system interactions cannot be achieved ideally due to imperfect control of system parameters, through the action of dynamical-decoupling pulses.