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Gradient Echo Quantum Memory in Warm Atomic Vapor
Published on: November 11, 2013
Automatic quantum error correction
1Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1009, USA.
Abstract:
Criteria are given by which dissipative evolution in the weak coupling limit can transfer populations and coherences between quantum subspaces, without a loss of coherence. The result is a form of quantum error correction implemented by the joint evolution of a system with a cold bath. It requires no external intervention and, in principle, no ancilla. An example of such a system, consisting of three dipole ordered spin 1/2 particles in a resonator, is given. The qubit, or the triple quantum coherence of the spins, is protected against all spin-flip errors.
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