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High-fidelity adiabatic passage by composite sequences of chirped pulses
Boyan T Torosov1, Stéphane Guérin, Nikolay V Vitanov
1Department of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Abstract:
We present a method for optimization of the technique of adiabatic passage between two quantum states by composite sequences of frequency-chirped pulses with specific relative phases: composite adiabatic passage (CAP). By choosing the composite phases appropriately the nonadiabatic losses can be canceled to any desired order with sufficiently long sequences, regardless of the nonadiabatic coupling. The values of the composite phases are universal for they do not depend on the pulse shapes and the chirp. The accuracy of the CAP technique and its robustness against parameter variations make CAP suitable for high-fidelity quantum information processing.
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