Discrete-time quantum walk with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond coupled to a superconducting flux qubit

作者:Hardal Ali U C*; Xue Peng; Shikano Yutaka; Mustecaplioglu Ozgur E; Sanders Barry C
来源:Physical Review A, 2013, 88(2): 022303.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.88.022303

摘要

We propose a quantum-electrodynamics scheme for implementing the discrete-time, coined quantum walk with the walker corresponding to the phase degree of freedom for a quasimagnon field realized in an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. The coin is realized as a superconducting flux qubit. Our scheme improves on an existing proposal for implementing quantum walks in cavity quantum electrodynamics by removing the cumbersome requirement of varying drive-pulse durations according to mean quasiparticle number. Our improvement is relevant to all indirect-coin-flip cavity quantum-electrodynamics realizations of quantum walks. Our numerical analysis shows that this scheme can realize a discrete quantum walk under realistic conditions.