Superradiance as a source of collective decoherence in quantum computers

作者:Yavuz D D*
来源:Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics, 2014, 31(11): 2665-2670.
DOI:10.1364/JOSAB.31.002665

摘要

We analyze the radiative coupling of qubits to a common radiation bath in free space and discuss that superradiance (collective emission) results in decoherence that scales with the square of the number of qubits. This decoherence mechanism is nonlocal; the collective emission simultaneously decoheres all the qubits in the computer. Because the noise source is not local, the introduced errors are outside the applicability of the threshold theorem. As a result, we argue that the errors due to superradiance cannot be corrected using the current models of fault-tolerant quantum computation.

  • 出版日期2014-11