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Arbitrarily accurate variable rotations on the Bloch sphere by composite pulse sequences

Quantum Physics 2019-01-09 v1

Abstract

Composite pulse sequences, which produce arbitrary pre-defined rotations of a two-state system at an angle θ\theta on the Bloch sphere, are presented. The composite sequences can contain arbitrarily many pulses and can compensate experimental errors in the pulse amplitude and duration to any desired order. A special attention is devoted to two classes of π/2\pi/2 sequences --- symmetric and asymmetric --- the phases of which are given by simple formulas in terms of rational multiples of π\pi for any number of constituent pulses. This allows one to construct arbitrarily accurate π/2\pi/2 composite rotations. These π/2\pi/2 composite sequences are used to construct three classes of arbitrarily long composite θ\theta sequences by pairing two π/2\pi/2 composite sequences, one of which is shifted by a phase πθ\pi-\theta with respect to the other one.

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@article{arxiv.1810.03833,
  title  = {Arbitrarily accurate variable rotations on the Bloch sphere by composite pulse sequences},
  author = {Boyan T. Torosov and Nikolay V. Vitanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.03833},
  year   = {2019}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures

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