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Decoherence-Free Rotational Degrees of Freedom for Quantum Applications

  • J. S. Pedernales
  • , F. Cosco
  • , M. B. Plenio
  • University of Ulm

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Abstract

We employ spherical t-designs for the systematic construction of solids whose rotational degrees of freedom can be made robust to decoherence due to external fluctuating fields while simultaneously retaining their sensitivity to signals of interest. Specifically, the ratio of signal phase accumulation rate from a nearby source to the decoherence rate caused by fluctuating fields from more distant sources can be incremented to any desired level by using increasingly complex shapes. This allows for the generation of long-lived macroscopic quantum superpositions of rotational degrees of freedom and the robust generation of entanglement between two or more such solids with applications in robust quantum sensing and precision metrology as well as quantum registers.

Original languageEnglish
Article number090501
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume125
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Aug 2020
MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

We acknowledge support by the ERC Synergy grant BioQ (Grant No. 319130), the EU projects HYPERDIAMOND (Grant No. 667192) and AsteriQs (Grant No. 820394), the QuantERA project NanoSpin, the BMBF project DiaPol, the state of Baden-Württemberg through bwHPC, the German Research Foundation (DFG) through Grant No. INST 40/467-1 FUGG, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through a postdoctoral fellowship.

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