Digital noise spectroscopy with a quantum sensor

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Main Authors: Wang, Guoqing, Zhu, Yuan, Li, Boning, Li, Changhao, Viola, Lorenza, Cooper, Alexandre, Cappellaro, Paola
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Published: 2022
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author Wang, Guoqing
Zhu, Yuan
Li, Boning
Li, Changhao
Viola, Lorenza
Cooper, Alexandre
Cappellaro, Paola
author_facet Wang, Guoqing
Zhu, Yuan
Li, Boning
Li, Changhao
Viola, Lorenza
Cooper, Alexandre
Cappellaro, Paola
contents We introduce and experimentally demonstrate a quantum sensing protocol to sample and reconstruct the auto-correlation of a noise process using a single-qubit sensor under digital control modulation. This Walsh noise spectroscopy method exploits simple sequences of spin-flip pulses to generate a complete basis of digital filters that directly sample the power spectrum of the target noise in the sequency domain -- from which the auto-correlation function in the time domain, as well as the power spectrum in the frequency domain, can be reconstructed using linear transformations. Our method, which can also be seen as an implementation of frame-based noise spectroscopy, solves the fundamental difficulty in sampling continuous functions with digital filters by introducing a transformation that relates the arithmetic and logical time domains. In comparison to standard, frequency-based dynamical-decoupling noise spectroscopy protocols, the accuracy of our method is only limited by the sampling and discretization in the time space and can be easily improved, even under limited evolution time due to decoherence and hardware limitations. Finally, we experimentally reconstruct the auto-correlation function of the effective magnetic field produced by the nuclear-spin bath on the electronic spin of a single nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, discuss practical limitations of the method, and avenues for further improving the reconstruction accuracy.
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spellingShingle Digital noise spectroscopy with a quantum sensor
Wang, Guoqing
Zhu, Yuan
Li, Boning
Li, Changhao
Viola, Lorenza
Cooper, Alexandre
Cappellaro, Paola
Quantum Physics
We introduce and experimentally demonstrate a quantum sensing protocol to sample and reconstruct the auto-correlation of a noise process using a single-qubit sensor under digital control modulation. This Walsh noise spectroscopy method exploits simple sequences of spin-flip pulses to generate a complete basis of digital filters that directly sample the power spectrum of the target noise in the sequency domain -- from which the auto-correlation function in the time domain, as well as the power spectrum in the frequency domain, can be reconstructed using linear transformations. Our method, which can also be seen as an implementation of frame-based noise spectroscopy, solves the fundamental difficulty in sampling continuous functions with digital filters by introducing a transformation that relates the arithmetic and logical time domains. In comparison to standard, frequency-based dynamical-decoupling noise spectroscopy protocols, the accuracy of our method is only limited by the sampling and discretization in the time space and can be easily improved, even under limited evolution time due to decoherence and hardware limitations. Finally, we experimentally reconstruct the auto-correlation function of the effective magnetic field produced by the nuclear-spin bath on the electronic spin of a single nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, discuss practical limitations of the method, and avenues for further improving the reconstruction accuracy.
title Digital noise spectroscopy with a quantum sensor
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09216