Decoherence-Protected Implementation of Quantum Gates

Abstract

We present a scheme to implement a universal set of quantum gates based on achievable interactions, and the gates can be protected against decoherence through a dynamical-decoupling approach without encoding. By properly designing system evolution, the desired system interactions commute with the elements forming dynamical decoupling pulses. Thus, the effect of decoherence can be eliminated by repeatedly applying the pulses, without noticeably affecting the system evolution governed by the desired system interactions given a small enough time interval between pulses. Moreover, due to the commutation between the elements forming the pulses and the desired system interactions, our scheme is resistant to different types of decoherence, and so not limited to specific decoherence. Our scheme also works well in the case that the desired system interactions cannot be achieved ideally due to imperfect control of system parameters, through the action of dynamical-decoupling pulses.