Nonperturbative leakage elimination operators and control of a three-level system

Jun Jing, Lian Ao Wu, Mark Byrd, J. Q. You, Ting Yu, Zhao Ming Wang

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Abstract

Dynamical decoupling operations have been shown to reduce errors in quantum information processing. Leakage from an encoded subspace to the rest of the system space is a particularly serious problem for which leakage elimination operators (LEOs) were introduced. Here we provide an analysis of nonideal pulses, rather than the well-understood idealization or bang-bang controls. Under realistic conditions, we show that these controls will provide the same protection from errors as idealized controls. Our work indicates that the effectiveness of LEOs depends on the integral of the pulse sequence in the time domain, which has been missing because of the idealization of pulse sequences. Our results are applied to a three-level system for the nitrogen-vacancy centers under an external magnetic field and are illustrated by the fidelity dynamics of LEO sequences, ranging from regular rectangular pulses, random pulses, and even disordered (noisy) pulses.

Original languageEnglish
Article number190502
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume114
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 May 2015

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