1 Introduction
The quantum computation, due to the characteristic of coherent superposition of quantum states, has shown many advantages in speeding up the processing of certain complex problems, such as factoring large integers and searching unsorted databases [
1-
5]. In quantum computing, the realization of high-fidelity gates is necessary for fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, the gate fidelity is generally limited by control errors in gate parameters and decoherence induced by dissipation. To diminish the effects of control errors and decoherence, various proposals of quantum computation have been put forward. One promising proposal is nonadiabtic holonomic quantum computation (NHQC) based on a non-Abelian geometric phases [
6-
15]. On one hand, the NHQC is based on geometric phases determined by global properties of evolution paths. Therefore, it is insensitive to classical parameter fluctuation. On the other hand, the NHQC is free from the limitation of the adiabatic condition, thus the evolution process can be accelerated. Accordingly, this can reduce the influence of decoherence on the system and improve the fidelity of the gate. However, the NHQC requires strict conditions to be satisfied for the Hamiltonian at all times, which undoubtedly restricts the choice of parameters [
6,
7].
To overcome the difficulty, a flexible scheme [
16] called as the NHQC+ has recently been proposed, which relaxes the requirement of parameters by selecting auxiliary basis. With the relaxation of the conditions, the NHQC+ approach can be compatible with various optimal control methods including counteradiabatic driving (CD) [
17-
20], dynamical decoupling (DD) [
21-
23], single-shot-shaped pulse (SSSP) [
24,
25], invariant based reverse engineering (IBRE) [
26,
27], etc., which further improves the robustness against systematic errors. To date, many NHQC+ schemes have been put forward in different physical systems, for example, superconducting circuit [
28-
30], spin qubits [
31,
32], and Rydberg atoms [
33-
36].
The Rydberg atom system is one promising candidate platform for physical implementation of quantum computing due to its long coherence time and strong interatomic interaction [
37-
51]. In Rydberg atom systems, the most representative phenomenon is Rydberg blockade [
52,
53]. That is, when more than one atom are excited in Rydberg states, strong dipole–dipole or van der Waals interactions between Rydberg atoms exist, which prevents neighboring Rydberg atoms simultaneously being excited to Rydberg states. In contrast to the Rydberg blockade, the Rydberg antiblockade [
54-
56] is more selective for computational basis states. For a two-qubit system, the Rydberg antiblockade allows only one computational basis state to be excited to the doubly excited Rydberg state, while the remaining three computational states keep unchanged. Apart from the Rydberg blockade and Rydberg antiblockade, the interaction among neutral atoms can exhibit many peculiar phenomena, such as Rydberg dressing [
57-
59] and Förster resonance [
60,
61].
Among these different phenomena, the Starked Förster resonance [
62] is an useful way to control the interaction between atoms, where two pairs of Rydberg states allow dipole transitions in between can be shifted into resonance by dc or microwave electric fields [
63,
64]. Moreover, the coherent coupling at Förster resonance has been also experimentally demonstrated [
65] and exploited to realize quantum computing [
66,
70]. For example, Beterov
et al. proposed a scheme for two-qubit gates using double adiabatic passage of the Stark-tuned Förster resonances of Rydberg states [
68]. Huang
et al. proposed a scheme to implement the two-qubit controlled-Z gate via the Stark-tuned Förster interaction of Rydberg atom [
69]. In view of that we are led to ask if it is possible to implement NHQC+ using the Förster resonance. The answer is positive.
In this paper, we propose a scheme to realize NHQC+ based on Förster resonance in Rydberg atoms. The scheme has several advantages as follows: First, inspired by Refs. [
67,
70], we realize a selective coupling mechanism for specific initial state in the regime of Rydberg Förster resonance, which is utilized to simplify the dynamics of system. Therefore, the mechanical effect [
71] and the possible ionization [
71-
73] can be effectively suppressed because there have no the simultaneous excitation of Rydberg atoms. Second, the evolution is studied by IBRE, where the paths for NHQC+ are naturally constructed by eigenvectors of an dynamic invariant and the corresponding control fields are also reversely designed. Moreover, the scheme can be compatible with the zero-systematic-error-sensitivity optimal control method [
74], so that the robustness of the control fields against systematic errors is further enhanced. The performance of the scheme is estimated with the numerical simulations and the results indicate that the scheme is insensitive to the random noise in control fields, the deviation of dipole–dipole interaction and the Förster defect. Third, the decoherence is also taken into account. Because the populations of partial Rydberg states are decoupled with the effective Hamiltonian and quantum information is coded on the atoms’ ground states, the scheme is robust against the spontaneous emission of atoms. Therefore, the scheme may provide useful perspectives in the realization of high-fidelity quantum computation.
The outline of the paper is as follows. In Section 2, we review the general theories for realizing NHQC+ with IBRE. In Section 3, we implement nonadiabatic holonomic quantum gates in the regime of Förster resonance by using IBRE. In Section 4, we analyze the influence of errors and decoherence on the fidelity of the quantum gate based on the NHQC+ (we call it as NHQC+ gate throughout the paper) via numerical simulations. Finally, conclusions are presented in Section 5.
2 Theoretical preparation
2.1 Lewis–Riesenfeld invariant theory
For the sake of elaborating the scheme more clearly, let us first review the Lewis–Riesenfeld theory in a nutshell [
26]. We now consider a system with Hamiltonian
. By introducing a Hermitian invariant operator
obeying the equation (
)
an arbitrary solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation can be expressed by eigenvectors of as
where , are corresponding coefficients and the Lewis–Riesenfeld phases are defined as
With the help of the dynamical invariant , the Hamiltonian can be inversely derived by Eq. (1). Therefore, dynamical invariant is helpful for analyzing the evolution of the system.
2.2 Requirements of the NHQC+ approach
In this section, we briefly review the requirement of the NHQC+ approach [
16]. Compared to the previous NHQC schemes, the difference is that the Hamiltonian in the NHQC+ approach [
16] has fewer restrictions [
6,
7]. To facilitate the description of the difference more clearly, we consider an
M-dimensional quantum system with Hamiltonian
. Then, a complete set of basis can be represented as
, where all the basis
follow the Schrödinger equation. Generally speaking, the NHQC is realized by using a
L-dimensional subspace satisfying the cyclic evolution and parallel transport conditions [
6,
7], i.e.,
The above two conditions (i) and (ii) ensure a cyclic evolution with only pure geometric phases being accumulated during the time interval
. In the NHQC case, the condition (ii) shown in Eq. (4) requires restrictions for all possible
and at every moment, which hinders the combination of NHQC and some optimal control methods [
16].
To remove these constraints, the NHQC+ approach suggests finding a set of auxiliary basis
, which satisfies cyclic condition, i.e.,
. According to the results of Ref. [
16], the defined projector
should satisfy von Neumann equation
Besides, for each , the dynamic phase acquired in the whole evolution process should vanish, i.e.,
such that the evolution becomes purely geometric as
with the geometric phase
Compared with the condition (ii) in Eq. (4), the condition in Eq. (6) shows that the Hamiltonian in the NHQC+ approach removes the constraints for and the dynamical phase is only required to vanish for the integral in the time interval . Thus, the NHQC+ approach may be compatible with different optimal control methods.
3 Implementation of nonadiabatic holonomic quantum gates
In this section, we introduce the physical model, the design methods of control fields, the optimal control method (zero-systematic-error-sensitivity optimal control) to implement the NHQC+ gate. In Section 3.1, we give the physical model and derive the effective Hamiltonian in the Förster resonance regime. Based on the effective Hamiltonian in Section 3.1, we further combine IBRE with the optimal control method to realize the optimized NHQC+ gate in Section 3.2. Specially, a clear schematic diagram for the scheme is given in Fig. 1.
3.1 Physical model and effective Hamiltonian
The model for implementing the nondiabatic holonomic quantum gates is shown in Fig. 2. We consider two identical Rubidium atoms individually trapped in optical tweezers. Each atom includes two ground states
and
, and three Rydberg states
,
, and
[75]. The transition
for atom 1 is resonantly driven by control field with Rabi frequency
(
). For the atom 2, the off-resonant transition
is driven by control field of Rabi frequency
with red detuning
Δ (blue detuning
Δ). Besides, the off-resonant transition
is driven by control field of
with red detuning
Δ (blue detuning
Δ). When both atoms are excited to Rydberg states, the states
and
are coupled by the dipolar interaction based on the Förster process with a small Förster defect, which the pair states
,
, and
are almost degenerate [
75,
76]. Noticing that the Förster defect can be eliminated by an external field [
65]. Therefore, the resonant Förster interaction between two Rydberg atoms is described as
The Hamiltonian HF in Eq. (9) can be further diagonalized as with , where we define . To parameterize the Rabi frequencies of control fields , , and , we assume , , , and . In the interaction picture, the Hamiltonian HI of the system can be written as
where (). Besides, we also define , such that can form a complete orthogonal basis for atom l instead of .
After considering the condition , the Hamiltonian HI in Eq. (10) is reformulated in a rotating frame with respect to ,
where the Hamiltonians Hr and Hh are respectively given by
In the regime of the large detuning limit
, the Hamiltonian
Hh in Eq. (12) can be reduced as [
77]
where, the term can be identified with Stark shifts associated with the control fields and the term represents the Raman transition . If the system is initial in subspace , by neglecting decoupled terms, the full Hamiltonian in Eq. (11) can be simplified as
As shown in Fig. 3, only the transitions , , and are allowed in the regime of the large detuning limit .
In order to achieve a selective coupling interaction, we further suppress the transition by diagonalizing the Hamiltonian in Eq. (14). That is, the term in Eq. (14) is transformed to the form with . In such a situation, the Hamiltonian in Eq. (14) yields
By considering the limit of , the collective state is decoupled with and in the regime of large detuning. It is worth noting that the term in Eq. (13) is very small compared with the Hamiltonian Hr in Eq. (12) under the limit condition , so that we have neglected it in the above derivations. Therefore, the Hamiltonian in Eq. (15) can be further simplified as
which signifies that the Hamiltonian provides a selective coupling mechanism that only the initial state can evolve in the subspace . In a word, such a course of deriving the effective Hamiltonian is shown in Fig. 4.
3.2 The realization of NHQC+ gate by using IBRE
In order to conveniently design the in Eq. (16) with IBRE, we denote , , and . Therefore, the effective Hamiltonian in Eq. (16) can be represented as
with , , and . According to Section 2, we can make use of IBRE to design the control fields. For a two-level quantum system, the invariant can be constructed by the superposition of three group generators of SU(2) algebra with time-dependent parameters and [34],
where
u is an arbitrary constant with units of frequency to keep
with dimensions of energy [
27]. Substituting Eq. (18) into Eq. (1),
and
are satisfied the differential equations as
By using Eq. (19), we can reversely solve the control fields as
In addition, the orthogonal eigenvector of the invariant with the eigenvalues can also be obtained as
According to the results in Eqs. (5) and (6), the time derivatives of dynamic phase and geometric phase acquired for the basis states and can be calculated as
respectively.
To construct NHQC+ dynamics, we choose the auxiliary basis
and
. Obviously, the state
is satisfied the conditions of NHQC+. Next, we only need to make sure that whether or not the basis
satisfies the conditions of NHQC+. First, to satisfy the cyclic condition
, we consider the boundary conditions satisfy
,
. In the case, the selection of parameter
is irrelevant to the cyclic condition according to Eq. (21). Second,
satisfies the von Neumann equation, which is easily proved in Appendix A. In order to make the dynamic phase in the evolution process vanish and obtain a pure geometric phase
, we design the parameters
and
by dividing the time interval
into two parts including
and
. The parameters
and
are set as
with
in the time interval
and
in the time interval
, respectively [
34]. With the assumptions of parameters
and
, the dynamic phase acquired in the evolution time
can be demonstrated to be equal to zero (see Appendix B for details). Thus, the NHQC+ dynamics can be constructed and the evolution operator can be described as
i.e., we can achieve the gate operation at when the geometric phase ,
in the subspace . Furthermore, back the computational basis , the nontrivial two-qubit NHQC+ gate is represented as
By choosing different values of va and vb, different two-qubit NHQC+ gates in Eq. (25) are realized. For , , is
which is a holonomic controlled phase. While for , , a holonomic controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate is
Until now, we have constructed the NHQC+ dynamics and implemented nontrivial two-qubit NHQC+ gate. However, the systematic errors of control fields always exist in the experiment, which will inevitably reduce the fidelity of gate. The previous schemes of the NHQC are sensitive to the systematic errors and difficult to incorporate optimal control technique without additional adjustable parameters. Here, for improving the fidelity of the NHQC+ gate, we introduce zero-systematic-error-sensitivity optimal control method to further enhance the robustness of the systematic error in the implementation of quantum gate [
74]. In the presence of the systematic error
of the control fields, the effective Hamiltonian in Eq. (17) can be written as
By using perturbation theory up to , we can obtain [6], where () are the state of the system in the absence (presence) of systematic errors. As the evolution of system can be described by , the fidelity of evolution is estimated as
with being considered.
To evaluate the influence of the static systematic error, the systematic error sensitivity [
74] defined as
is introduced. The systematic error sensitivity can be calculated as
with . Here, we set to minimize the with being a time-independent optimized coefficient. In order to make the improvement of the gate performance attributed to the optimal control, the maximum value of the optimized control fields is bounded by the maximal amplitude of control fields and . Under the restriction of , the evolution time T increases with the value of η, which aggravates the influence of decoherence on the fidelity of the quantum gate. For this choice of χ, we can obtain . Clearly, when η=1, 2, 3, …, the value of qs equal to zero, which means that the minimum of the systematic error sensitivity is achieved. To trade off between the robustness against systematic errors and decoherence, we choose the optimized coefficient . Accordingly, we have in the time interval and in the time interval . To make the control fields continuous and vanish at the boundary, we choose in the time interval .
With the choice of the parameters designed above, we plot the control fields
versus
t in Fig. 5(a). From Fig. 5(a), we can further obtain the maximal value of control field
. In order to better satisfy the condition
, the Rydberg interaction strength is set as
and the control field
to build up the effective Hamiltonian. In this case, the total operation time is
. For the dipole–dipole interaction
V, its strength
can be continuously varied in the range of
MHz [
65,
78], where
GHz
and
R represents the interatomic distance. Besides, the Rabi coupling strength of the ground state and the Rydberg state can be up to
MHz realized by a two-photon process [
78]. Here, we consider the experimentally feasible parameter
MHz at the distance of
μm, leading to short evolution time
μs. Correspondingly, the control field
MHz and the maximal value of control field
MHz, which is available in the experiment. Under the current parameter condition, it is important to verify the validity of the effective Hamiltonian
in Eq. (17). In Figs. 6(a)–(d), we plot the time evolution of populations for the states
,
,
and
in the subspace
governed by the full Hamiltonian in Eq. (10), respectively. It can be seen that this result is in good agreement with the expectation. As shown in Fig. 6, the states
,
, and
always keep in their initial states with higher fidelities and the state
can realize the coherent population transfer. Therefore, the validity of effective Hamiltonian
in Eq. (17) is verified.
As an example, we check the robustness of the implementation of the holonomic CNOT gate against systematic errors of control fields and show the results of optimization by numerical simulation. The final average fidelities
versus error
with different optimized coefficient
η are plotted in Fig. 5(b), where
is defined as [
79,
80]
with
,
,
being the projection operator onto the computational subspace, and
representing the dimension of the computational subspace. Seen from the blue solid line in Fig. 5(b),
with the optimized coefficient
is always higher than 99.8
when
, which shows that the implementation of the holonomic CNOT gate is quite insensitive to systematic errors. We also see that the average fidelity falls to 0.9747 when
with
. Noticing that when
the current scheme reduces to previous NHQC cases [
81-
85]. Thus, the scheme can enhance the robustness against systematic errors.
In addition, we also simulate the average fidelity in Fig. 7(a). As seen from Fig. 7(a), we obtain the average fidelity of the holonomic CNOT gate as at , which is in accordance with the expectation. Specially, we also choose a special initial state to verify the validity of the CNOT gate. Correspondingly, the target state is . As shown in Fig. 7(b), the computational basis states and keep in the initial states and the states and accomplish the coherent population transfer. Moreover, the acquired geometric phase and dynamic phase are plotted in Fig. 8. We can see from Fig. 8 that the dynamic phase finally vanishes at , while the geometric phase reaches predetermined value , which means that a pure geometric phase is acquired in the evolution process. Therefore, the holonomic CNOT gate can be successfully realized with high fidelity.
4 Analysis of errors and decoherence on the fidelity of the NHQC+ gate
In addition to the systematic errors of the control fields discussed in Section 3.2, there may exist other errors and decoherence affecting the performance of the NHQC+ gate. In a practical experiment environment, the analysis of the robustness against these disturbing factors is helpful for estimating the performance of the scheme. As an example, we analyze the robustness for implementation of the holonomic CNOT gate in the following discussion.
4.1 Random noise in control fields
In the experiment, the random noise is an error source reducing the average fidelity of gate in experiment. Because the fluctuation of Rabi frequencies of the control fields is always random, thus it is worthwhile to study the implementation of gate in a noisy environment. As the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is a nice model to simulate the process of many random noises, here we study the performance of gate by adding AWGN to the original control fields. The control fields under the influence of the AWGN can be described as
where
[
denotes a function generating AWGN with the signal-to-noise ratio
R for control field
[
]. Because the AWGN is random in every single simulation, we perform 50 numerical simulations for the implementation of the CNOT gate with
and
, respectively. The infidelities
for corresponding signal-to-noise in each simulation are shown in Figs. 9(a) and (b), respectively. As seen from Fig. 9, the infidelities
fluctuate around 0.00205 and 0.00209 with
and
, respectively. Compared with the case without AWGN, the noise only reduces the fidelity of the gate by
. Therefore, the results show that the scheme is robust against AWGN. The physical mechanism behind this phenomenon is that the random values of AWGN added to the original control fields are zero average, thus the total effect of AWGN on the evolution of system can be nearly neglected. As the accumulations of geometric phases are mainly related to the global property of the evolution path, the local fluctuations caused by AWGN cannot cause more errors [
31].
4.2 Deviation of dipole–dipole interaction
In the process of obtaining the effective Hamiltonian in Eq. (16), we have assumed the condition . Nevertheless, it is difficult to strictly control the interaction between Rydberg states to satisfy the condition in the experimental operation. In order to evaluate the performance of deviation of dipole–dipole interaction on the average fidelity of the holonomic CNOT gate, we plot the average fidelity of the gate versus the deviation in Fig. 10(a), where we suppose MHz. As can be seen from Fig. 10(a), the current scheme is insensitive to the movement of the distance between atoms, and the average fidelity of the gate is higher than 94.5. This infidelity is mainly due to the term of Hr in Eq. (12). When the deviation of dipole–dipole interaction exists, the transition between and becomes not resonant. Under the condition , the state cannot be completely suppressed in the evolution process.
4.3 Förster defect
In the presence of Förster defect, the interaction Hamiltonian between atoms HF in Eq. (9) is modified in the basis by
where
δ is the Förster defect between states
and
. The Förster defect changes the eigenvalue with a small deviation
, which is approximately equal to
for a small ratio
. In Fig. 10(b), we numerically simulate the effect of the Förster defect on the average fidelity of the holonomic CNOT gate. As shown in Fig. 10(b), the average fidelity still reaches about 97
when
. Considering the experimental parameter of defects
MHz in the absence of an electric field [
65], the average fidelity of the gate is 98.64
, which shows that the scheme is still effective. On the whole, the scheme is robust against the deviation of Förster defect.
4.4 Decoherence induced by dissipation
So far we do not consider the influence of decoherence on the scheme. In the practical implementation, the system is always inevitably affected by the environment. Therefore, we check the performance of decoherence on the implementation of the holonomic CNOT gate with the initial state in the end of this section. The dissipation dynamics process of the system is governed by the master equation,
where being the density operator of the system, p being the atomic number, and being the Rydberg state. Besides, the corresponding decay from excited states , , into ground states and can be expressed as the operator ). For simplicity, we assume the atomic spontaneous emission rates .
We plot the fidelities of the evolution of initial state versus
t without decay and with decay in Fig. 11(a). As seen from the green solid line in Fig. 11(a), the fidelity of the holonomic CNOT gate is
at
without decay. Moreover, the blue solid line in Fig. 11(a) represents the fidelity versus
t in the presence of decay with
kHz, which indicates
. We also plot the final fidelity
of the holonomic CNOT gate with the initial state
versus decay
γ in Fig. 11(b). From Fig. 11(b), we can find the final fidelity
is very high (above
). Thus, the scheme is robust against the atomic spontaneous emission. This is because the populations of partial Rydberg states are decoupled with the effective Hamiltonian in the limits of large detuning
and
. In order to better characterize the performance of the holonomic CNOT gate in the presence of decay, we also numerically calculate the truth table [
86] in Fig. 12. Specifically, we need to perform the gate operation on each of the computational basis states (Input state
). By calculating the populations defined as
, we can obtain the corresponding population of output state (
) for each input state, where
is the evolution operator for the gate at
. From the numbers on the bars shown in Fig. 12, the minimum values of population of each input state exceeds 98.7
. Thus, the scheme is helpful to realize a perfect two-qubit gate operation in Rydberg atom systems.
5 Conclusion
In conclusion, we have proposed a scheme to realize the NHQC+ in the regime of Rydberg Förster resonance. In this scheme, assisted by the strong dipole–dipole interaction between Rydberg atoms, a selective coupling mechanism for the subspace is proposed to simply the dynamics of system. In the whole evolution process, the simultaneous excitation of Rydberg atoms is avoided. Based on the derived effective Hamiltonian, the NHQC+ dynamics can be naturally constructed and the corresponding control fields are designed to implement the quantum gate with the help of IBRE. The advantages of IBRE in NHQC+ have been shown in the paper. On one hand, the eigenvectors of the dynamical invariant provide natural evolution paths to realize NHQC+. On the other hand, IBRE can be compatible with the systematic-error-sensitivity optimal control method, which further enhances the robustness against systematic errors of control fields. By minimizing the systematic error sensitivity qs, the optimal Rabi frequencies of control fields can be designed. Moreover, the control fields do not involve sudden changes in the whole process by setting proper boundary conditions for the time derivatives of control parameters, which means that the control fields are continuous. In addition, the performance of the NHQC+ gate is estimated in the presence of the random noise in control fields, the deviation of dipole–dipole interaction, the Förster defect, and decoherence based on the master equation. Both the theoretical and numerical results show that the scheme can realize high-fidelity quantum gate.
Compared with previous schemes [
20,
82-
85], the current scheme has flexible parameter selections so that it can be compatible with many control and optimal methods. For example, in contrast to Ref. [
20], the design of Hamiltonian via IBRE method in the current scheme is different from that via transitionless quantum driving (TQD) method. The design of Hamiltonian by the TQD method is to steer the dynamics along the instantaneous eigenstates of the original Hamiltonian without transitions among them. The additional Hamiltonians need to be added to compensate the nonadiabatic errors according to the original Hamiltonian. Thus, the original Hamiltonian needs to be designed first. However, the design of Hamiltonian by the IBRE method is to reversely derive the Hamiltonian by constructing a dynamic invariant. In this case, the eigenvectors of the dynamic invariant as the exact evolution paths can be obtained by designing the boundary condition of parameters. Thus, the IBRE method has more freedom to design the parameters. Accordingly, the convenience of parameter selections make the scheme well incorporate the systematic-error-sensitivity optimal control method. This enables the scheme to maintain high fidelity in the presence of errors. As the scheme is fully compatible with the advantages of geometric phases, reverse engineering, and the systematic-error-sensitivity optimal control method, it can be helpful for precise quantum computation in Rydberg atom systems.