Quantum State Transfer and Network Engineering

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nikolopoulos, Georgios M. (Editor), Jex, Igor (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Quantum Science and Technology
• Subjects: Physics.; Special purpose computers.; Quantum computers.; Quantum physics.; Spintronics.; Electrical engineering.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Quantum Physics.; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.; Quantum Computing.

Faithful communication is a necessary precondition for large-scale quantum information processing and networking, irrespective of the physical platform. Thus, the problems of quantum-state transfer and quantum-network engineering have attracted enormous interest over the last years, and constitute o...

Table of Contents:

• Spin Chains as Data Buses, Logic Buses and Entanglers
• Communication in Engineered Quantum Networks
• Dual- and Multi-rail Encoding
• Quantum State Transfer with Limited Resources
• Robustness of Spin-chain State-transfer Schemes
• Implementation of State Transfer Hamiltonians in Spin Chains with Magnetic Resonance Techniques
• State Transfer Hamiltonians in Photonic Lattices.