State transfer and manipulation of quantum information by nonlocal dissipative tunneling

Author(s)

Gentil Dias de Moraes Neto

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC/BT)
• Defense date: 2013-05-28

Examining board members

Miled Hassan Youssef Moussa; Tito Jose Bonagamba; Marcelo de Oliveira Terra Cunha; Ruynet Lima de Matos Filho; José Antonio Roversi

• Advisor: Miled Hassan Youssef Moussa

Abstract

In this thesis we address the problem of transfer and manipulation of quantum information in dissipative systems. First we present a technique to build, within a dissipative bosonic network, decoherence-free channels (DFCs): a group of normal-mode oscillators with null effective damping rates. We verify that the states protected within the DFC define the wellknown decoherence-free subspaces (DFSs) when mapped back into the natural network oscillators. Therefore, our technique to build protected normal-mode channels turns out to be an alternative way to build DFSs, which offers advantages over the conventional method. It enables the computation of all the network-protected states at once, as well as leading naturally to the concept of the decoherence quasi-free subspace (DQFS), inside which a superposition state is quasi-completely protected against decoherence. The concept of the DQFS, weaker than that of the DFS, may provide a more manageable mechanism to control decoherence. Finally, as an application of the DQFSs, we show how to build them for quasi-perfect state transfer in networks of coupled quantum dissipative oscillators. Then we present a scheme for quasi perfect transfer of polariton states from a sender to a spatially separated receiver, both composed of high-quality cavities filled by atomic samples. The sender and the receiver are connected by a nonideal transmission channel the data bus modelled by a network of lossy empty cavities. In particular, we analyze the influence of a large class of data-bus topologies on the fidelity and transfer time of the polariton state. Moreover, we also assume dispersive couplings between the polariton fields and the data-bus normal modes in order to achieve a tunneling-like state transfer. Such a tunneling-transfer mechanism, by which the excitation energy of the polariton effectively does not populate the data-bus cavities, is capable of attenuating appreciably the dissipative effects of the data-bus cavities. After deriving a Hamiltonian for the effective coupling between the sender and the receiver, we show that the decay rate of the fidelity is proportional to a cooperativity parameter that weigh the cost of the dissipation rate against the benefit of the effective coupling strength. The increase of the fidelity of the transfer process can be achieved at the expense of longer transfer times. We also show that the dependence of both the fidelity and the transfer time on the network topology for distinct regimes of parameters. It follows that the data-bus topology can be explored to control the time of the state-transfer process. Finally we propose the nonlocal tunneling mechanism for high-fidelity state transfer between distant parties. We apply this mechanism for highfidelity information transfer and processing between remote multi-branch nonideal quantum circuits (QCs). We show that in addition to the transfer of states, we can perform logic operations between distant qubits and generate a plethora of entangled quantum states. (AU)