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Decoherence in a N-qubit solid-state quantum computer

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We investigate the decoherence process for a quantum register composed of N qubits coupled to an environment. We consider an environment composed of one common phonon bath and several electronic baths. This environment is relevant to the implementation of a charge based solid-state quantum computer. We explicitly compute the time evolution of all off-diagonal terms of the register's reduced density matrix. We find that in realistic configurations, "superdecoherence" and "decoherence free subspaces" do not exist for an N-qubit system. This means that all off-diagonal terms decay like exp(-q(t)N), where q(t) is of the same order as the decay function of a single qubit.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0411086,
  title  = {Decoherence in a N-qubit solid-state quantum computer},
  author = {B. Ischi and M. Hilke and M. Dube},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0411086},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages