Quantum simulation of a general anti-PT-symmetric Hamiltonian with a trapped ion qubit
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| author | Bian, Ji Lu, Pengfei Liu, Teng Wu, Hao Rao, Xinxin Wang, Kunxu Lao, Qifeng Liu, Yang Zhu, Feng Luo, Le |
| author_facet | Bian, Ji Lu, Pengfei Liu, Teng Wu, Hao Rao, Xinxin Wang, Kunxu Lao, Qifeng Liu, Yang Zhu, Feng Luo, Le |
| contents | Non-Hermitian systems satisfying parity-time (PT) symmetry have aroused considerable interest owing to their exotic features. Anti-PT symmetry is an important counterpart of the PT symmetry, and has been studied in various classical systems. Although a Hamiltonian with anti-PT symmetry only differs from its PT-symmetric counterpart in a global $\pm$ i phase, the ways they change information and energy with the enivronment are completely different, suggesting an essential different dynamics in anti-PT-symmetric systems from their PT -symmetric variants. Moreover, theortical works have shown that qubits with anti-PT-symmetric Hamiltonians (anti-PT-symmetric qubits) have superior decoherence properties over Hermitian qubits, as well as PT-symmetric ones. So far, the observation of anti-PT symmetry in individual quantum systems remains elusive. Here, we implement an anti-PT -symmetric Hamiltonian of a single qubit in a single trapped ion by a designed microwave and optical control-pulse sequence. We characterize the anti-PT phase transition by mapping out the eigenvalues at different dissipation rates. The full inforamtion of the quantum state is also obtained by quantum state tomography. Our work allows quantum simulation of genuine open-system feature of an anti-PT-symmetric system, which paves the way for utilizing non-Hermitian properties for quantum information processing. |
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| spellingShingle | Quantum simulation of a general anti-PT-symmetric Hamiltonian with a trapped ion qubit Bian, Ji Lu, Pengfei Liu, Teng Wu, Hao Rao, Xinxin Wang, Kunxu Lao, Qifeng Liu, Yang Zhu, Feng Luo, Le Quantum Physics Non-Hermitian systems satisfying parity-time (PT) symmetry have aroused considerable interest owing to their exotic features. Anti-PT symmetry is an important counterpart of the PT symmetry, and has been studied in various classical systems. Although a Hamiltonian with anti-PT symmetry only differs from its PT-symmetric counterpart in a global $\pm$ i phase, the ways they change information and energy with the enivronment are completely different, suggesting an essential different dynamics in anti-PT-symmetric systems from their PT -symmetric variants. Moreover, theortical works have shown that qubits with anti-PT-symmetric Hamiltonians (anti-PT-symmetric qubits) have superior decoherence properties over Hermitian qubits, as well as PT-symmetric ones. So far, the observation of anti-PT symmetry in individual quantum systems remains elusive. Here, we implement an anti-PT -symmetric Hamiltonian of a single qubit in a single trapped ion by a designed microwave and optical control-pulse sequence. We characterize the anti-PT phase transition by mapping out the eigenvalues at different dissipation rates. The full inforamtion of the quantum state is also obtained by quantum state tomography. Our work allows quantum simulation of genuine open-system feature of an anti-PT-symmetric system, which paves the way for utilizing non-Hermitian properties for quantum information processing. |
| title | Quantum simulation of a general anti-PT-symmetric Hamiltonian with a trapped ion qubit |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01486 |