Filter-function formalism and software package to compute quantum processes of gate sequences for classical non-Markovian noise
Physical Review Research, vol. 3
Abstract
Correlated, non-Markovian noise is present in many solid-state systems employed as hosts for quantum information technologies, significantly complicating the realistic theoretical description of these systems. In this regime, the effects of noise on sequences of quantum gates cannot be described by concatenating isolated quantum operations if the environmental correlation times are on the scale of the typical gate durations. The filter-function formalism has been successful in characterizing the decay of coherence under the influence of such classical, non-Markovian environments, and here we show it can be applied to describe unital evolution within the quantum operations formalism. We find exact results for the quantum process and a simple composition rule for a sequence of operations. This enables the detailed study of effects of noise correlations on algorithms and periodically driven systems. Moreover, we point out the method's suitability for numerical applications and present the open-source Python software package filter_functions. Amongst other things, it facilitates computing the noise-averaged transfer matrix representation of a unital quantum operation in the presence of universal classical noise for arbitrary control sequences. We apply the presented methods to selected examples.
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RWTH Aachen University · Forschungszentrum Jülich · Jülich Aachen Research Alliance
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JARA-FIT Institute for Quantum Information, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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RWTH Aachen University · Forschungszentrum Jülich · Jülich Aachen Research Alliance
Affiliation as printed
JARA-FIT Institute for Quantum Information, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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RWTH Aachen University · Forschungszentrum Jülich · Jülich Aachen Research Alliance
Affiliation as printed
JARA-FIT Institute for Quantum Information, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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