Quantum information processing with quantum zeno many-body dynamics

  • Authors:
  • Alex Monras;Oriol Romero-Isart

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartemento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy and The School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds United Kingdom;Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany and Departament de Física, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Quantum Information & Computation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We show how the quantum Zeno effect can be exploited to control quantum many-bodydynamics for quantum information and computation purposes. In particular, we considera one dimensional array of three level systems interacting via a nearest-neighbourinteraction. By encoding the qubit on two levels and using simple projective frequentmeasurements yielding the quantum Zeno effect, we demonstrate how to implement awell defined quantum register, quantum state transfer on demand, universal two-qubitgates and two-qubit parity measurements. Thus, we argue that the main ingredientsfor universal quantum computation can be achieved in a spin chain with an always-onand constant many-body Hamiltonian. We also show some possible modifications of theinitially assumed dynamics in order to create maximally entangled qubit pairs and singlequbit gates.