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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

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

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

Quantum error correction/detection (QEC/QED) and dynamical decoupling (DD) are tools for protecting quantum information. A natural goal is to combine them to outperform either approach alone. Such a benefit is not automatic: physical DD can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Victor Kasatkin , Mario Morford-Oberst , Arian Vezvaee , Daniel A. Lidar

Quantum computers, which process information encoded in quantum mechanical systems, hold the potential to solve some of the hardest computational problems. A substantial obstacle for the further development of quantum computers is the fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-02 Alexandre M. Souza , Gonzalo A. Álvarez , Dieter Suter

We prove the universality of the generalized QDD_{N1,N2} (quadratic dynamical decoupling) pulse sequence for near-optimal suppression of general single-qubit decoherence. Earlier work showed numerically that this dynamical decoupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 Wan-Jung Kuo , Daniel A. Lidar

Systematic pulse-area errors limit the fidelity of quantum control across many qubit platforms. We introduce twinned dynamical decoupling (TDD), an analytic family of sequences $T2n$ in which a pulse sequence is paired with its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Nayden P. Nedev , Nikolay V. Vitanov

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

We generate different orders of quantum coherence in a three-qubit NMR system and study their dynamics in the presence of inherent noise. Robust dynamical decoupling (DD) sequences are applied to preserve the different coherence orders.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Akanksha Gautam , Kavita Dorai , Arvind

The performance of quantum computers is hindered by decoherence and crosstalk, which cause errors and limit the ability to perform long computations. Dynamical decoupling is a technique that alleviates these issues by applying carefully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Amy F. Brown , Daniel A. Lidar

We present rigorous performance bounds for the quadratic dynamical decoupling (QDD) pulse sequence which protects a qubit from general decoherence, and for its nested generalization to an arbitrary number of qubits. Our bounds apply under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-06 Yuhou Xia , Gotz S. Uhrig , 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

Reducing decoherence is an essential step toward realizing general-purpose quantum computers beyond the present noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. To this end, dynamical decoupling (DD) approaches in which external fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Yukiyoshi Ohtsuki , Suicho Mikami , Toru Ajiki , David J. Tannor

We demonstrate the efficacy of the universally robust dynamical decoupling (URDD) sequence to preserve multipartite maximally entangled quantum states on a cloud based quantum computer via the IBM platform. URDD is a technique that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-07 Akanksha Gautam , Arvind , Kavita Dorai

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…

A quantum memory interacts with its environment and loses information via decoherence as well as incoherence. A robust quantum control that prepares, preserves, and manipulates nonclassical correlations even in the presence of environmental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 V. S. Anjusha , T. S. Mahesh

Dynamical decoupling has been actively investigated since Viola first suggested using a pulse sequence to protect a qubit from decoherence. Since then, many schemes of dynamical decoupling have been proposed to achieve high-order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 Haoyu Qi , Jonathan P. Dowling

Dynamical decoupling (DD) and bath engineering are two parallel techniques employed to mitigate qubit decoherence resulting from their unavoidable coupling to the environment. Here, we present a hybrid DD approach that integrates pulsed DD…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Qi Yao , Jun Zhang , Wenxian Zhang , Chaohong Lee

In this paper, we first design a type of Bang-Bang (BB) operation group to reduce the phase decoherence in a {\Xi}-type n-level quantum system based on the dynamical decoupling mechanism. Then, we derive two kinds of dynamical decoupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Linping Chan , Shuang Cong