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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…

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Balancing high sensitivity with a broad dynamic range is a fundamental challenge in measurement science, as improving one often compromises the other. While traditional quantum metrology has prioritized enhancing local sensitivity, a large…

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Hyper-Ramsey protocols effectively reduce AC-Stark shifts in probing ultra-narrow optical clock transitions but they remain sensitive to laser intensity noise, decoherence, frequency drifts, and low-frequency perturbations. We address these…

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Parametric fluctuations or stochastic signals are introduced into the control pulse sequence to investigate the feasibility of random control over quantum open systems. In a large parameter error region, the out-of-order control pulses work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Jun Jing , C. Allen Bishop , Lian-Ao Wu

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…

Identifying weakly coupled nuclear spins around single electron spins is a key step of implementing quantum information processing using coupled electron-nuclei spin systems or sensing like single spin nuclear magnetic resonance detection…

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Detecting and characterizing decoherence-inducing noise sources is critical for developing robust quantum technologies and deploying quantum sensors operating at molecular scales. However, current noise spectroscopies rely on severe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Nanako Shitara , Andrés Montoya-Castillo

The nitrogen vacancy (NV) color center in diamond is an enormously important platform for the development of quantum sensors, including for single spin and single molecule NMR. Detection of weak single-spin signals is greatly enhanced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 J. E. Lang , J. Casanova , Z. -Y. Wang , M. B. Plenio , T. S. Monteiro

Quantum sensing utilizes quantum systems as sensors to capture weak signal, and provides new opportunities in nowadays science and technology. The strongest adversary in quantum sensing is decoherence due to the coupling between the sensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yijin Xie , Jianpei Geng , Huiyao Yu , Xing Rong , Ya Wang , Jiangfeng Du

Quantum systems can be used to measure various quantities in their environment with high precision. Often, however, their sensitivity is limited by the decohering effects of this same environment. Dynamical decoupling schemes are widely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 David Layden , Paola Cappellaro

Recent advances in engineering and control of nanoscale quantum sensors have opened new paradigms in precision metrology. Unfortunately, hardware restrictions often limit the sensor performance. In nanoscale magnetic resonance probes, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 A. Ajoy , Y. X. Liu , K. Saha , L. Marseglia , J. -C. Jaskula , U. Bissbort , P. Cappellaro

The need for strategies able to accurately manipulate quantum dynamics is ubiquitous in quantum control and quantum information processing. We investigate two scenarios where randomized dynamical decoupling techniques become more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lorenza Viola , Lea F. Santos

Quantum metrology with entangled states in realistic noisy environments always suffers from decoherence. Therefore, the measurement precision is greatly reduced. Here we applied the dynamical decoupling method to protect the $N$-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yang Dong , Xiang-Dong Chen , Guang-Can Guo , Fang-Wen Sun

Analog quantum simulators with global control fields have emerged as powerful platforms for exploring complex quantum phenomena. Despite these advances, a fundamental theoretical question remains unresolved: to what extent can such systems…

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

We explore the protection of quantum gates from arbitrary single- and two-qubit noises with properly designed dynamical decoupling pulses. The proposed dynamical decoupling method is a concatenation of a sequence of pulses formed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Chunfeng Wu , Gangcheng Wang , Xun-Li Feng

Using both simulation and experiment, we investigate the robustness of dynamical decoupling sequences to pulse errors: rotation errors and detuning errors. Whereas prior work examined the effect of errors on coherence times, here we show…

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

We investigate the application of amplitude-shaped control pulses for enhancing the time and frequency resolution of multipulse quantum sensing sequences. Using the electronic spin of a single nitrogen vacancy center in diamond and up to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 J. Zopes , K. Sasaki , K. S. Cujia , J. M. Boss , K. Chang , T. F. Segawa , K. M. Itoh , C. L. Degen

Controlling the interaction of a single quantum system with its environment is a fundamental challenge in quantum science and technology. We dramatically suppress the coupling of a single spin in diamond with the surrounding spin bath by…

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