Engineering unsteerable quantum states with active feedback

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Autori principali: Morales, Samuel, Gefen, Yuval, Gornyi, Igor, Zazunov, Alex, Egger, Reinhold
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Pubblicazione: 2023
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author Morales, Samuel
Gefen, Yuval
Gornyi, Igor
Zazunov, Alex
Egger, Reinhold
author_facet Morales, Samuel
Gefen, Yuval
Gornyi, Igor
Zazunov, Alex
Egger, Reinhold
contents We propose active steering protocols for quantum state preparation in quantum circuits where each system qubit is connected to a single detector qubit, employing a simple coupling selected from a small set of steering operators. The decision is made such that the expected cost-function gain in one time step is maximized. We apply these protocols to several many-qubit models. Our results are underlined by three remarkable insights. First, we show that the standard fidelity does not give a useful cost function; instead, successful steering is achieved by including local fidelity terms. Second, although the steering dynamics acts on each system qubit separately, entanglement in the generated target state is introduced, and can be tuned at will, by performing Bell measurements on detector qubit pairs after every time step. This implements a weak-measurement variant of entanglement swapping. Third, numerical simulations suggest that the active steering protocol can reach arbitrarily designated target states, including passively unsteerable states such as the $N$-qubit W state.
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spellingShingle Engineering unsteerable quantum states with active feedback
Morales, Samuel
Gefen, Yuval
Gornyi, Igor
Zazunov, Alex
Egger, Reinhold
Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
We propose active steering protocols for quantum state preparation in quantum circuits where each system qubit is connected to a single detector qubit, employing a simple coupling selected from a small set of steering operators. The decision is made such that the expected cost-function gain in one time step is maximized. We apply these protocols to several many-qubit models. Our results are underlined by three remarkable insights. First, we show that the standard fidelity does not give a useful cost function; instead, successful steering is achieved by including local fidelity terms. Second, although the steering dynamics acts on each system qubit separately, entanglement in the generated target state is introduced, and can be tuned at will, by performing Bell measurements on detector qubit pairs after every time step. This implements a weak-measurement variant of entanglement swapping. Third, numerical simulations suggest that the active steering protocol can reach arbitrarily designated target states, including passively unsteerable states such as the $N$-qubit W state.
title Engineering unsteerable quantum states with active feedback
topic Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00384