Abstract
We propose and experimentally demonstrate an efficient framework for the quantum simulation of quantum channels in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Our approach relies on the suitable decomposition of nonunitary operators in a linear combination of unitary ones, which can be then experimentally implemented with the assistance of a number of ancillary qubits that grows logarithmically in . As a proof-of-principle demonstration, we realize the quantum simulation of three quantum channels for a single-qubit: phase damping, amplitude damping, and depolarizing channels. For these paradigmatic cases, we measure key features, such as the fidelity of the initial state and the associated von Neumann entropy for a qubit evolving through these channels. Our experiments are carried out using nuclear spins in a liquid sample and NMR control techniques.
- Received 22 April 2017
- Revised 19 September 2017
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.062303
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