Spingineering : quantum control in the presence of relaxation
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002.
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| author | Recht, Benjamin Harris, 1978- |
| author2 | Neil Gershenfeld. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/623652019-04-12T11:18:30Z Spingineering : quantum control in the presence of relaxation Quantum control in the presence of relaxation Recht, Benjamin Harris, 1978- Neil Gershenfeld. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences. Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-80). For certain problems quantum resources can exponentially increase computing power, but these quantum resources are very fragile in practice. When a quantum system interacts with an external environment, it undergoes decoherence - the loss of quantum correlation - and relaxation - the loss of energy - and eventually all of the quantum information is lost. Here we show a general principle of using unitary operators to suppress relaxation processes. Unitary operations do not cool a quantum system and seem an unlikely candidate for preventing irreversible thermodynamic heating processes, but surprisingly most decoherence processes can be corrected or ameliorated using open loop control with unitary controllers. We examine the different mechanisms of decoherence and relaxation on simple spin systems and discuss when the modes can be corrected. We show experimentally the feasibility of our correction schemes using nuclear magnetic resonance. We also demonstrate control of the nuclear spins over long time scales. Finally, we discuss the applications of unitary correction to higher dimensional systems and the potential applications to quantum information processing. by Benjamin Harris Recht. S.M. 2011-04-25T15:47:29Z 2011-04-25T15:47:29Z 2002 2002 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62365 50783904 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 80 leaves application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences. Recht, Benjamin Harris, 1978- Spingineering : quantum control in the presence of relaxation |
| title | Spingineering : quantum control in the presence of relaxation |
| title_full | Spingineering : quantum control in the presence of relaxation |
| title_fullStr | Spingineering : quantum control in the presence of relaxation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spingineering : quantum control in the presence of relaxation |
| title_short | Spingineering : quantum control in the presence of relaxation |
| title_sort | spingineering quantum control in the presence of relaxation |
| topic | Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62365 |
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