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Published on: August 2, 2019
Charging a quantum spin network with superextensive precision
Beatrice Donelli1,2, Stefano Gherardini1,2, Raffaele Marino3
1Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Largo Enrico Fermi 6, 50125 Firenze, Italy.
Abstract:
We present a cooperative protocol to charge quantum spin networks up to the highest-energy configuration, in terms of the network's magnetization. The charging protocol leverages spin-spin interactions and the crossing of a phase transition's critical point to achieve superextensive charging precision. The cooperative protocol guarantees a precision advantage over any local charging protocol and leads to fluctuations (standard deviation) of the magnetization that scale as 1/N, with N the number of spins in the network, i.e., the size of the spin battery. We test our protocol on the D-Wave Advantage quantum processing unit by charging sublattices with sizes ranging from 40 to 5612 spins, achieving the highest-energy configuration with a sizable superextensive charging precision scaling and outperforming the local charging precision by four orders of magnitude.
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