No Arabic abstract
We study the evolution of qubits amplitudes in a one-dimensional chain consisting of three equidistantly spaced noninteracting qubits embedded in an open waveguide. The study is performed in the frame of single-excitation subspace, where the only qubit in the chain is initially excited. We show that the dynamics of qubits amplitudes crucially depend on the value of $kd$, where $k$ is the wave vector, $d$ is a distance between neighbor qubits. If $kd$ is equal to an integer multiple of $pi$, then the qubits are excited to a stationary level. In this case, it is the dark states which prevent qubits from decaying to zero even though they do not contribute to the output spectrum of photon emission. For other values of $kd$ the excitations of qubits exhibit the damping oscillations which represent the vacuum Rabi oscillations in a three-qubit system. In this case, the output spectrum of photon radiation is determined by a subradiant state which has the lowest decay rate. We also investigated the case with the frequency of a central qubit being different from that of the edge qubits. In this case, the qibits decay rates can be controlled by the frequency detuning between the central and the edge qubits.
We consider a one-dimensional chain of N equidistantly spaced noninteracting qubits embedded in an open waveguide. In the frame of single-excitation subspace, we systematically study the evolution of qubits amplitudes if the only qubit in the chain was initially excited. We show that the temporal dynamics of qubits amplitudes crucially depend on the value of kd, where k is the wave vector, d is a distance between neighbor qubits. If kd is equal to an integer multiple of $pi$, then the qubits are excited to a stationary level which scales as SN^{-1}S. We show that in this case, it is the dark states which prevent qubits from decaying to zero even though they do not contribute to the output spectrum of photon emission. For other values of kd the excitations of qubits have the form of damping oscillations, which represent the vacuum Rabi oscillations in a multi-qubit system. In this case, the output spectrum of photon radiation is defined by a subradiant state with the smallest width.
We suggest a dynamical vector model of entanglement in a three qubit system based on isomorphism between $su(4)$ and $so(6)$ Lie algebras. Generalizing Plucker-type description of three-qubit local invariants we introduce three pairs of real-valued $3D$ vector (denoted here as $A_{R,I}$ , $B_{R,I}$ and $C_{R,I}$). Magnitudes of these vectors determine two- and three-qubit entanglement parameters of the system. We show that evolution of vectors $A$, $B$ , $C$ under local $SU(2)$ operations is identical to $SO(3)$ evolution of single-qubit Bloch vectors of qubits $a$, $b$ and $c$ correspondingly. At the same time, general two-qubit $su(4)$ Hamiltonians incorporating $a-b$, $a-c$ and $b-c$ two-qubit coupling terms generate $SO(6)$ coupling between vectors $A$ and $B$, $A$ and $C$, and $B$ and $C$, correspondingly. It turns out that dynamics of entanglement induced by different two-qubit coupling terms is entirely determined by mutual orientation of vectors $A$, $B$, $C$ which can be controlled by single-qubit transformations. We illustrate the power of this vector description of entanglement by solving quantum control problems involving transformations between $W$, Greenberg-Horne-Zeilinger ($GHZ$ ) and biseparable states.
An individual excited two level system decays to its ground state by emitting a single photon in a process known as spontaneous emission. In accordance with quantum theory the probability of detecting the emitted photon decreases exponentially with the time passed since the excitation of the two level system. In 1954 Dicke first considered the more subtle situation in which two emitters decay in close proximity to each other. He argued that the emission dynamics of a single two level system is altered by the presence of a second one, even if it is in its ground state. Here, we present a close to ideal realization of Dickes original two-spin Gedankenexperiment, using a system of two individually controllable superconducting qubits weakly coupled to a microwave cavity with a fast decay rate. The two-emitter case of superradiance is explicitly demonstrated both in time-resolved measurements of the emitted power and by fully reconstructing the density matrix of the emitted field in the photon number basis.
The interaction between a qubit and its environment provides a channel for energy relaxation which has an energy-dependent timescale governed by the specific coupling mechanism. We measure the rate of inelastic decay in a Si MOS double quantum dot (DQD) charge qubit through sensing the charge states response to non-adiabatic driving of its excited state population. The charge distribution is sensed remotely in the weak measurement regime. We extract emission rates down to kHz frequencies by measuring the variation of the non-equilibrium charge occupancy as a function of amplitude and dwell times between non-adiabatic pulses. Our measurement of the energy-dependent relaxation rate provides a fingerprint of the relaxation mechanism, indicating that relaxation rates for this Si MOS DQD are consistent with coupling to deformation acoustic phonons.
Leakage errors damage a qubit by coupling it to other levels. Over the years, several theoretical approaches to dealing with such errors have been developed based on perturbation arguments. Here we propose a different strategy: we use a sequence of finite rotation gates to exactly eliminate leakage errors. The strategy is illustrated by the recently proposed charge quadrupole qubit in a triple quantum dot, where there are two logical states to support the qubit and one leakage state. We have found an su(2) subalgebra in the three-level system, and by using the subalgebra we show that ideal Pauli x and z rotations, which are universal for single-qubit gates, can be generated by two or three propagators of experimentally-available Hamiltonians. The proposed strategy does not require additional pulses, is independent of error magnitude, and potentially reduces experimental overheads. In addition, the magnitude of detuning fluctuation can be estimated based on the exact solution.