Broadband Population Transfer Based on Suture Adiabatic Pulses

TL;DR

This paper introduces a suture adiabatic pulse scheme for broadband, high-fidelity quantum state transfer that is rapid, robust, and scalable, significantly enhancing quantum memory and network capabilities.

Contribution

It proposes a novel suture adiabatic control pulse method that broadens transfer bandwidth and reduces operational time using a single laser, advancing quantum memory technology.

Findings

Transfer bandwidth scales linearly with the number of suture pulses.

High fidelity is maintained even at points where adiabaticity breaks down.

The scheme enables increased multimode storage capacity.

Abstract

High-fidelity coherent population transfer plays a vital role in the realization of quantum memories. However, population transfer with high performance across a broad frequency range is still challenging due to the finite Rabi coupling strength limited by laser powers. Here we propose a novel population-transfer scheme by suturing adiabatic control pulses with each pulse covering certain frequency interval, which are connected in a way that neighboring adiabatic pulses have opposite chirping directions. Taking the widely utilized hyperbolic-square-hyperbolic pulse as an example, we demonstrate that rapid and robust population transfer can be achieved. The transfer bandwidth scales linearly with the number of suture pulses while maintaining high fidelity, even at the suture points where adiabaticity breaks down. Crucially, these pulses can be realized by a single laser by means of temporal multiplexing. For a given bandwidth, this strategy substantially reduces the operational time which is necessary for on demand read-out and suppressing decoherence effects. Our scheme enables a dramatic increase in multimode storage capacity and paves the way for realizing practical quantum networks.