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Resonant cancellation of off-resonant effects in a multilevel qubit

Quantum Physics 2009-11-06 v2

Abstract

Off-resonant effects are a significant source of error in quantum computation. This paper presents a group theoretic proof that off-resonant transitions to the higher levels of a multilevel qubit can be completely prevented in principle. This result can be generalized to prevent unwanted transitions due to qubit-qubit interactions. A simple scheme exploiting dynamic pulse control techniques is presented that can cancel transitions to higher states to arbitrary accuracy.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0003034,
  title  = {Resonant cancellation of off-resonant effects in a multilevel qubit},
  author = {Lin Tian and Seth Lloyd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0003034},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, Revtex, submitted for publication