ESQUIRE Meeting, Lund, January 2005
Talk Outline
• Robust gate design by optimal control.
• Problems of sample-based approach• Magnus expansion allows area-
samples• Performance with area-samples• Summary and outlook
ESQUIRE Meeting, Lund, January 2005
Sample-Based Approach
• Now: Just minimize J(u)!– Method: optimal control theory
Field parameters Objective functional
Instance parameters
Performance index
ESQUIRE Meeting, Lund, January 2005
Talk Outline
• Robust gate design by optimal control.
• Problems of sample-based approach• Magnus expansion allows area-
samples• Performance with area-samples• Summary and outlook
ESQUIRE Meeting, Lund, January 2005
Talk Outline
• Robust gate design by optimal control.
• Problems of sample-based approach• Magnus expansion allows area-
samples• Performance with area-samples• Summary and outlook
ESQUIRE Meeting, Lund, January 2005
• Second order Magnus expansion allows us to estimate effect on far-detuned ions:
Magnus Expansion
H(1) given by the autocorrelation function
ESQUIRE Meeting, Lund, January 2005
Works for unoptimized fields
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Red marks: 2nd order Magnus estimate
Field
ESQUIRE Meeting, Lund, January 2005
… but optimization tricks Magnus
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More Iterations are Even Worse
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Source of Spread
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ESQUIRE Meeting, Lund, January 2005
Talk Outline
• Robust gate design by optimal control.
• Problems of sample-based approach• Magnus expansion allows area-
samples• Performance with area-samples• Summary and outlook
ESQUIRE Meeting, Lund, January 2005
Magnus Working
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Resulting Field
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Entangling Power• The excited state is plagued by decay.• Nevertheless, since the entangling power of
the dipole coupling is proportional to the excited state population, we need to populate it.
• Limits obtainable gate fidelity
DecayDecay
[To be published]
ESQUIRE Meeting, Lund, January 2005
Summary and Outlook
• Summary– 2nd order Magnus expansion alone is not
enough to accurately predict performance.
– Together with regular samples, however, the optimization seems to work
• Outlook– We are currently trying to obtain a full
2-qubit gate by optimization
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Bus Architecture
• Interaction strengths: up to GHz at typical ion distances.
Fully interconnected Bus
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Calculating dJ/du
• For a general dynamical system,
• We consider the objective functional
E.g. Schrödinger equation
”Penalty function”