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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 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

Uhrig's dynamical decoupling pulse sequence has emerged as one universal and highly promising approach to decoherence suppression. So far both the theoretical and experimental studies have examined single-qubit decoherence only. This work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Musawwadah Mukhtar , Thuan Beng Saw , Wee Tee Soh , Jiangbin Gong

The coherence time of an electron spin decohered by the nuclear spin environment in a quantum dot can be substantially increased by subjecting the electron to suitable dynamical decoupling sequences. We analyze the performance of high-level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-27 Wenxian Zhang , N. P. Konstantinidis , V. V. Dobrovitski , B. N. Harmon , Lea F. Santos , Lorenza Viola

Dynamical decoupling protocols are one of the most used tools for efficient quantum error corrections and for reservoir engineering. In this paper we study the effect of dynamical decoupling pulses on the preservation of both quantum and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Carole Addis , Göktuğ Karpat , Sabrina Maniscalco

In quantum information processing, it is vital to protect the coherence of qubits in noisy environments. Dynamical decoupling (DD), which applies a sequence of flips on qubits and averages the qubit-environment coupling to zero, is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-12 Wen Yang , Zhen-Yu Wang , Ren-Bao Liu

Characteristic dips appear in the coherence traces of a probe qubit when dynamical decoupling (DD) is applied in synchrony with the precession of target nuclear spins, forming the basis for nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The…

Dynamical decoupling (DD) is a key technique for suppressing decoherence and preserving the performance of quantum algorithms. We introduce a measurement-based DD (MDD) protocol that determines control unitary gates from partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jeongwoo Jae , Changwon Lee , Juzar Thingna , Yeong-Dae Kwon , Daniel K. Park

Dynamic quantum circuits integrate unitary evolution with mid-circuit measurement and feedforward, enabling conditional operations essential for efficient quantum algorithms and foundational for fault-tolerant quantum computation. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Christopher Tong , Liran Shirizly , Edward H. Chen , Derek S. Wang , Bibek Pokharel

Dynamical decoupling (DD) is a powerful method for controlling arbitrary open quantum systems. In quantum spin control, DD generally involves a sequence of timed spin flips ($\pi$ rotations) arranged to average out or selectively enhance…

Quantum computers must be able to function in the presence of decoherence. The simplest strategy for decoherence reduction is dynamical decoupling (DD), which requires no encoding overhead and works by converting quantum gates into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Bibek Pokharel , Namit Anand , Benjamin Fortman , Daniel Lidar

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 demonstrate significant improvements of the spin coherence time of a dense ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond through optimized dynamical decoupling (DD). Cooling the sample down to $77$ K suppresses longitudinal spin…

We present a randomized dynamical decoupling (DD) protocol that can improve the performance of any given deterministic DD, by using no more than two additional pulses. Our construction is implemented by probabilistically applying sequences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Changhao Yi , Leeseok Kim , Milad Marvian

The loss of quantum information due to interaction with external degrees of freedom, which is known as decoherence, remains one of the main obstacles for large-scale implementations of quantum computing. Accordingly, different measures are…

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

Dynamical decoupling (DD) is a widely-used quantum control technique that takes advantage of temporal symmetries in order to partially suppress quantum errors without the need resource-intensive error detection and correction protocols.…

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

The fidelity of applications on near-term quantum computers is limited by hardware errors. In addition to errors that occur during gate and measurement operations, a qubit is susceptible to idling errors, which occur when the qubit is idle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Poulami Das , Swamit Tannu , Siddharth Dangwal , Moinuddin Qureshi

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