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Currently available quantum computers are prone to errors. Circuit optimization and error mitigation methods are needed to design quantum circuits to achieve better fidelity when executed on NISQ hardware. Dynamical decoupling (DD) is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Siyuan Niu , Aida Todri-Sanial

Dynamical decoupling is a technique that protects qubits against noise. The ability to preserve quantum coherence in the presence of noise is essential for the development of quantum devices. Here the Rigetti quantum computing platform was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 Alexandre M. Souza

Dynamical decoupling (DD) is a low-overhead method for quantum error suppression. Despite extensive work in DD design, finding pulse sequences that optimally decouple computational qubits on noisy quantum hardware is not well understood. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Christopher Tong , Helena Zhang , Bibek Pokharel

We investigate the feasibility for the preservation of coherence and entanglement of one and two spin qubits coupled to an interacting quantum spin-1/2 chain within the dynamical decoupling (DD) scheme. The performance is examined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jun-Ting Kao , Jo-Tzu Hung , Pochung Chen , Chung-Yu Mou

We implement dynamical decoupling techniques to mitigate noise and enhance the lifetime of an entangled state that is formed in a superconducting flux qubit coupled to a microscopic two-level system. By rapidly changing the qubit's…

Based on the stochastic theory developed by Kubo and Anderson, we present an exact result of the decoherence function of a qubit in telegraph-like noises under dynamical decoupling control. We prove that for telegraph-like noises, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-24 Ke Chen , Ren-Bao Liu

Long qubit coherence and efficient atom-photon coupling are essential for advanced applications in quantum communication. One technique to maintain coherence is dynamical decoupling, where a periodic sequence of refocusing pulses is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Chang Hoong Chow , Boon Long Ng , Christian Kurtsiefer

Dynamical decoupling is a long-established and effective way to suppress unwanted interactions in qubit systems, enabling advances in fields ranging from quantum metrology to quantum computing. For general qudit systems, however, comparable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Colin Read , Eduardo Serrano-Ensástiga , John Martin

Dynamical decoupling pulse sequences have been used to extend coherence times in quantum systems ever since the discovery of the spin-echo effect. Here we introduce a method of recursively concatenated dynamical decoupling pulses, designed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Khodjasteh , D. A. Lidar

Decoherence is one of the most important obstacles that must be overcome in quantum information processing. It depends on the qubit-environment coupling strength, but also on the spectral composition of the noise generated by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-02 Gonzalo A. Alvarez , Dieter Suter

We investigate the optimal dynamical decoupling sequence for a qubit coupled to an ohmic environment. By analytically computing the derivatives of the decoherence function, the optimal pulse locations are found to satisfy a set of nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 Yu Pan , Zairong Xi , Wei Cui

Methods that preserve coherence broadly impact all quantum information processing and metrology applications. Dynamical decoupling methods accomplish this by protecting qubits in noisy environments but are typically constrained to the limit…

Dynamical decoupling can be used to preserve arbitrary quantum states despite undesired interactions with the environment, using control Hamiltonians affecting the system only. We present a system-independent analysis of dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kaveh Khodjasteh , Daniel A. Lidar

Dynamical decoupling (DD) is a technique for preserving the coherence of quantum mechanical states in the presence of a noisy environment. It uses sequences of inversion pulses to suppress the environmental perturbations by periodically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-13 Alexandre M. Souza , Gonzalo A. Álvarez , Dieter Suter

Quantum bits or qubits naturally decohere by becoming entangled with uncontrollable environments. Dynamical decoupling is thereby required to disentangle qubits from an environment by periodically reversing the qubit bases, but this causes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Yuhei Sekiguchi , Yusuke Komura , Hideo Kosaka

Dynamical decoupling (DD) is one of the simplest error suppression methods, aiming to enhance the coherence of qubits in open quantum systems. Moreover, DD has demonstrated effectiveness in reducing coherent crosstalk, one major error…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Siyuan Niu , Aida Todri-Sanial , Nicholas T. Bronn

Dynamical decoupling (DD) is a well-known open-loop protocol for suppressing unwanted interactions in a quantum system, thereby drastically extending the coherence time of useful quantum states. In the original framework of evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Colin Read , Eduardo Serrano-Ensástiga , John Martin

We consider the usage of dynamical decoupling in quantum metrology, where the joint evolution of system plus environment is described by a Hamiltonian. We demonstrate that by ultra-fast unitary control operations acting locally only on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 P. Sekatski , M. Skotiniotis , W. Dür

We report the experimental implementation of dynamical decoupling on a small, non-interacting ensemble of up to 25 optically trapped, neutral Cs atoms. The qubit consists of the two magnetic-insensitive Cs clock states $\left| F=3, m_F=0…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Sabrina Burgardt , Simon B. Jäger , Julian Feß , Silvia Hiebel , Imke Schneider , Artur Widera

We explore a strategy for protecting the evolution of a qubit against the effects of environmental noise based on the application of controlled time-dependent perturbations. In the case of a purely decohering coupling, an explicit sequence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lorenza Viola , Seth Lloyd