Decoherence-Free Rotational Degrees of Freedom for Quantum Applications
- 26 August 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 125 (9) , 090501
Abstract
We employ spherical -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.
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Funding Information
- H2020 European Research Council (319130, 667192)
- Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (INST 40/467-1)
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- Asteriqs (820394)
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