Mohammad gave a talk at QEC07 at USC December 17th. Here are the slides:
20071217_mohammad_amin_qec07.ppt
Update: All of the materials cited in this presentation have been published. Here are citations:
R. Harris, M. W. Johnson, S. Han, A. J. Berkley, J. Johansson, P. Bunyk, E. Ladizinsky, S. Govorkov, M. C. Thom, S. Uchaikin, B. Bumble, A. Fung, A. Kaul, A. Kleinsasser, M. H. Amin, and D. V. Averin
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Macroscopic resonant tunneling between the two lowest lying states of a bistable rf SQUID is used to characterize noise in a flux qubit. Measurements of the incoherent decay rate as a function of flux bias revealed a Gaussian-shaped profile that is not peaked at the resonance point but is shifted to a bias at which the initial well is higher than the target well. The rms amplitude of the noise, which is proportional to the dephasing rate 1/τφ, was observed to be weakly dependent on temperature below 70 mK. Analysis of these results indicates that the dominant source of low energy flux noise in this device is a quantum mechanical environment in thermal equilibrium.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 117003 2008
M. H. Amin and Dmitri V. Averin
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We develop a theory of macroscopic resonant tunneling of flux in a double-well potential in the presence of realistic flux noise with a significant low-frequency component. The rate of incoherent flux tunneling between the wells exhibits resonant peaks, the shape and position of which reflect qualitative features of the noise, and can thus serve as a diagnostic tool for studying the low-frequency flux noise in SQUID qubits. We show, in particular, that the noise-induced renormalization of the first resonant peak provides direct information on the temperature of the noise source and the strength of its quantum component.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 197001 2008
M. H. Amin
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We present a perturbative method to estimate the spectral gap for adiabatic quantum optimization, based on the structure of the energy levels in the problem Hamiltonian. We show that, for problems that have an exponentially large number of local minima close to the global minimum, the gap becomes exponentially small making the computation time exponentially long. The quantum advantage of adiabatic quantum computation may then be accessed only via the local adiabatic evolution, which requires phase coherence throughout the evolution and knowledge of the spectrum. Such problems, therefore, are not suitable for adiabatic quantum computation.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130503 2008
M. H. Amin, Peter J. Love, and C. J. Truncik
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We study the effect of a thermal environment on adiabatic quantum computation using the Bloch-Redfield formalism. We show that in certain cases the environment can enhance the performance in two different ways: (i) by introducing a time scale for thermal mixing near the anticrossing that is smaller than the adiabatic time scale, and (ii) by relaxation after the anticrossing. The former can enhance the scaling of computation when the environment is super-Ohmic, while the latter can only provide a prefactor enhancement. We apply our method to the case of adiabatic Grover search and show that performance better than classical is possible with a super-Ohmic environment, with no a priori knowledge of the energy spectrum.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 060503 2008
R. Harris, M. W. Johnson, S. Han, A. J. Berkley, J. Johansson, P. Bunyk, E. Ladizinsky, S. Govorkov, M. C. Thom, S. Uchaikin, B. Bumble, A. Fung, A. Kaul, A. Kleinsasser, M. H. Amin, and D. V. Averin
Show Abstract
Macroscopic resonant tunneling between the two lowest lying states of a bistable rf SQUID is used to characterize noise in a flux qubit. Measurements of the incoherent decay rate as a function of flux bias revealed a Gaussian-shaped profile that is not peaked at the resonance point but is shifted to a bias at which the initial well is higher than the target well. The rms amplitude of the noise, which is proportional to the dephasing rate 1/τφ, was observed to be weakly dependent on temperature below 70 mK. Analysis of these results indicates that the dominant source of low energy flux noise in this device is a quantum mechanical environment in thermal equilibrium.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 117003 2008
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Useful to entirely refer to arXiv publications. By reference only to unrefereed preprints, the coupling coefficient with skeptical academics in minimized. Not (as Jerry Sienfeld says) that there’s anything WRONG with that…
Hi Jonathan,
They’ve been submitted to PRL, but as you know the process isn’t instantaneous. The arguments should be clear enough to follow through and do your own peer review in advance of the formal process.
It’d be useful to upload this to http://www.slideshare.net in order to make it more findable…
David