Abstract

Accurate and robust control over quantum systems plays a key role in quantum information science. The use of systems with large state spaces (qudits) may prove a useful resource for quantum information tasks if good laboratory tools for qudit manipulation and measurement can be developed. Over the past few years we have developed and experimentally implemented a protocol to perform high-fidelity unitary transformations in the 16 dimensional hyperfine ground manifold of Cesium-133 atoms, driving the system with phase modulated radio-frequency and microwave magnetic fields and using the tools of optimal control to find appropriate control waveforms. We have recently extended our protocol to investigate quantum state tomography based on a combination of unitary transformations and Stern-Gerlach analysis. Experimental results shown that optimal tomography based on mutually-unbiased-bases …

Date

2015

Authors

Hector Sosa Martinez, Nathan Lysne, Poul Jessen, Charles Baldwin, Amir Kalev, Ivan Deutsch

Conference

46th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics