https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt17
Research
Characterization of how dissipation and dephasing errors accumulate in quantum computers
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, Aarhus C, DK-8000, Denmark
* e-mail: moelmer@phys.au.dk
Received:
24
September
2014
Accepted:
26
November
2014
Published online:
4
January
2015
We study the achievements of quantum circuits comprised of several one- and two-qubit gates subject to dissipation and dephasing. Quantum process matrices are determined for the basic one- and two-qubit gate operations and concatenated to yield the process matrix of the combined quantum circuit. Examples are given of process matrices obtained by a Monte Carlo wavefunction analysis of Rydberg blockade gates in neutral atoms. Our analysis is ideally suited to compare different implementations of the same process. In particular, we show that the three-qubit Toffoli gate facilitated by the simultaneous interaction between all atoms may be accomplished with higher fidelity than a concatenation of one- and two-qubit gates.
Key words: quantum tomography / Monte Carlo wavefunction / Rydberg atoms
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