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We propose a scheme to construct the multiple-qubit Rydberg quantum controlled-phase gate with one control and multiple target qubits. The proposed quantum logic gate works under the asymmetric-Rydberg-interaction-induced dipole blockade and can be implemented with three operation steps. The most prominent characteristic of the scheme is that the required operation time and steps keep invariant as the number of qubits increases. The Rydberg state leakage and some practical situations are considered. The Lindblad master equation is used to evaluate and verify the feasibility of the scheme.
Due to the advances in experimental operation, especially trapping and cooling, Rydberg atoms have received much attention in the research of quantum information. When they are excited to Rydberg states with high principal quantum number[1,2] and close enough, strong Rydberg–Rydberg interaction (RRI) arises. Consequently and interestingly, a frequency matched classical laser field cannot excite more than one atom,[3,4] which is called Rybderg blockade and has been observed in experiments with two Rydberg atoms located about 4 μm[5] apart by collective driving and 10 μm[6] apart through sequent driving, respectively. The RRI has also been directly measured in experiment.[7] Via contactless RRI, the photonic nonlinear dynamics is obtained in experiment.[8] Besides, two-qubit Rydberg logic gates can be constructed via the RRI induced energy shift,[9] phase shift,[10] blockade phenomenon,[11–18] Rydberg dressing,[19–23] generalized Rabi frequency,[24] or two-atom dark state method.[25] Recently, new Rydberg regimes[26–29] and quantum controls of the pulses[30,31] have also been designed for the Rydberg quantum gate.
Multiple-qubit quantum logic gates are meaningful for quantum algorithm and quantum information processing.[32–34] The conventional gate-decomposition protocols imply that a multiple-qubit quantum logic gate can be decomposed into single- and two-qubit gates.[34–36] However, the number of required single- and two-qubit quantum gates increases dramatically as the number of qubits in multiple-qubit logic gates increases. Constructing the multiple-qubit quantum logic gate directly is worth studying[37–43] because more quantum resources would be saved. The conventional n-qubit controlled-phase performs a phase operation on a target qubit depending on the state of the rest n − 1 control qubit, which has wide applications in complex quantum algorithms[44] and quantum error correction.[45,46] Besides, the n-qubit controlled-phase with one control and n − 1 target qubits also has extensive applications in quantum entangled state preparation,[47] quantum error correction,[48] the discrete cosine transform,[49] and quantum cloning,[50] and has been constructed through multiple-step[51–53] or single-step[54] via a virtual photon process. In addition to the atom–cavity system, the cross-Kerr nonlinearity system is also a promising platform for quantum information processing[55–58] and can be used to construct the one control and multiple target qubits quantum logic gate[59,60] on the premise that the perfect singe-photon resource is achieved.[61–64] Based on Rydberg blockade, several schemes have been proposed for the construction of conventional multiple-qubit Rydberg quantum logic gates via exciting atoms into different Rydberg states,[65] considering asymmetric Rydberg interactions,[66,67] and sequent driving based Rydberg collective excitation.[68] In contrast, a multiple-qubit quantum logic gate with one control qubit and multiple target qubits has not been well-studied in the Rydberg atom system.
Inspired by these studies, we propose a scheme to construct the multiple-qubit Rydberg quantum controlled-phase gate with one control and multiple-target qubits. The asymmetric-RRI-based blockade regime[69,70] and the well-defined laser coupling sequences[3,4] make the required conditional dynamics realizable. The required operation step and the operation time are kept invariant as the qubit number increases.
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The scheme is easy to be extended to the n-qubit case (k = 2,3,···, n). The Hamiltonians (
One of the features of the scheme is that the total required operation time is not increased with increasing qubit number. Two factors influence the performance of the scheme. One is the blockade error, the other is the dissipation originated from spontaneous emission. The blockade error should be considered from two aspects. First, VRr should be strong enough to blockade the target Rydberg atoms to be excited to |r〉 if the control and some or all of the target atoms are initially in state |1〉. Second, the RRI strength Vrr should be weak enough to allow collective excitation of the target atoms if the control atom is initially in state |0〉 and some or all of the target atoms are initially in state |1〉. Generally speaking, the evolution of the whole system can be described by the Markovian master equation
Rydberg asymmetric interactions have been used and studied for efficiently achieving multi-particle entanglement by Saffman and Mølmer[69] via blockade regime based on unitary dynamics, Carr and Saffman[70] via antiblockade regime based on dissipation, and for construction of three-qubit Toffoli gate by Brion et al.[65] Since dipole–dipole interaction strength VRr is approximate to n4/ℛ3 and vdW interaction strength Vrr is approximate to n11/ℛ6, where n and ℛ denote principal quantum number and distance between Rydberg atoms, respectively, the strongly asymmetric Rydberg interactions can be readily met by choosing sufficiently large ℛ and sufficiently small n, whose lower limit is scaled by the blackbody limited spontaneous emission lifetime τ ∼ n2.[69] More specifically, One can obtain the calculated blockade strength from Fig.
To estimate the performance of the quantum controlled-phase gates more accurately, the average fidelity rather than the fidelity obtained from one group of specific initial state and the corresponding final state should be used. We use two methods to measure the average fidelity. The first one is given by Nielsen[71] and White et al.[72] with the form
As discussed earlier, VRr should be strong enough to block the target atoms once the control atom is excited and Vrr should be weak enough to allow collective excitations of the target atoms if the control atom is not excited. We now use the numerical methods to estimate the influence of the imperfect blockade. In Fig.
In the previous discussion, we suppose that the parameters keep invariant. Practically, the parameters would no doubt fluctuate during the experiment. Without loss of generality, we assume that the fluctuation of the parameter satisfies a Gaussian distribution with mean value p and standard deviation δ p. For a fixed δ p, we consider 100 groups of pj that satisfy the Gaussian distribution. For a given pj, we get the corresponding fidelity Fj at the optimal time through Eq. (
Practically, atomic transition error arises when the near-resonant coupling to other unwanted states happens. To estimate the average fidelities under this situation, we consider two near-resonant transition channels following the spirit of Ref. [25], in which all possible dipole allowed transitions with the change of principal quantum number up to ±5 from the resonant states are considered.
We consider the leakage channels as shown in Fig.
The scheme may be improved through introducing other methods, such as electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and geometric controls. In this subsection, we will describe some of the possible schemes and provide corresponding parameter ranges, which maybe useful for further studies.
The performance of the scheme may be improved based on the EIT[11,75] method. To do this, as shown in Fig.
The other robust method is to use the geometric operations.[76] As shown in Fig.
Based on the asymmetric-RRI-induced blockade regime, we proposed a scheme to construct the multiple-qubit controlled-phase gate with one control and multiple-target qubits. Analysis with the master equation method showed that the scheme is robust to RRI fluctuation. In addition, the required operation step and time of the scheme are not increased with the increase of the qubit number in the quantum logic gate. We have also shown that the proposed scheme can be generalized to the EIT and the geometric phase cases. We hope that the proposed multiple-qubit controlled-phase gate can find some applications in the future Rydberg-atom-based QIP tasks with the development of technology.
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