Online Seminar: Dr Gerardo Paz Silva, Griffith U, Australia
Controls and frames: A new approach to quantum noise spectroscopy
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Noise Cancellation and your quantum computer
SPEAKER: Dr Gerardo Paz Silva
AFFILIATION: Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
HOSTED BY: A/Prof Chris Ferrie, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information
ABSTRACT:
Noise cancellation, as in everyday headphones, requires the ability to characterize & filter out the noise affecting a system one wants to protect. The last few years have seen the birth of increasingly more powerful Quantum Noise Spectroscopy (QNS) protocols, capable of characterizing the noise affecting a quantum system of interest. However, while many of these protocols have been experimentally verified, all demonstrations have been so far limited to characterizing injected noise. More importantly, even theoretically a fully general protocol is still non-existent. In this talk I will introduce our new approach to the problem, which overcomes these limitations.
I will argue that by characterizing only the portions of the noise that are relevant a given set of control capabilities, e.g., available to a particular experiment, many of the existing difficulties in designing a fully general QNS protocol disappear. I describe the key ingredients allowing this and exemplify our results via two paradigmatic examples.