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Universal Coherence Loss Protection by the
Quantum Zeno Effect
V. Akulin1, E. Brion1, D. Comparat1, I. Dumer2,
G. Harel3, N. Kébaïli1, G. Kurizki4, I.
Mazets4,5, P. Pillet1,
1Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS II, Bât. 505,
91405 Orsay
2College of Engineering, University of
California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
3Departement of Computing, University of
Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
4 Department of Chemical Physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot,
Israel 5A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical
Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia.
Les Houches April 26th 2004
2Quantum Information and Quantum Errors
3Outline
4The Quantum Zeno Effect
B. Misra and E.C.G. Sudarshan, J. Math. Phys. 18,
756 (1977)
5Coherence Protection in compound systems
trivial case
6Coherence Protection in compound systems
general case
7Coherence Protection in compound systems
general case
Coding matrix ? j0? ? C0, ? k, ?j0C-1EkCj0?
0 Necessary condition M ? A 1.
8Application to a physical system
78Rb
level s L 0 A
1 ( no ancilla )
M 6 errors considered (3 magnetic, 3 electric)
? A ? M1 7 (L3)
9Ancilla adding through pumping
J5/2
J7/2
-5/2
1/2
3/2
5/2
-7/2
-5/2
-3/2
-1/2
1/2
3/2
5/2
7/2
60f
-1/2
-3/2
5d
-3/2
-1/2
1/2
3/2
?1
J3/2
?1 ?2
5p
-3/2
-1/2
1/2
3/2
J3/2
5s
-1/2
1/2
J1/2
10Coding through the non-holonomic control
C0
11Action of infinitesimal errors
12Decoding through the non-holonomic control
y(t)?
dy?
C
y0?
13Projection through spontaneous emission
j(t)?
dj?
C0
j0?
14Conclusion
A physical method has been proposed to protect
coherence against unitary action of the
environment
Generalize to arbitrary (non-unitary errors),
adaptation of our algorithms
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