Influence of Ion-Ion Interactions on Single Qubit State Transfer Fidelities

Sammanfattning: Experimental single qubit gate fidelities in the rare-earth quantum computing (REQC) scheme was found to be lower than predicted by simulation of the optical Bloch equations for the system. The cause was believed to be excitation-induced frequency shifts (EFS), so this BSc thesis investigates a model for EFS in Eu:YSO where stochastic frequency shifts are imposed on the ions. This was implemented as a convolution of the solution to the Bloch equations in each time step with a convolution kernel, where the width of the kernel was dependent on the change in excitation. The simulation was run for a 7 µs complex hyperbolic secant pulse, one of the pulses used in previous experiments. The result was decreased fidelity, but not enough to explain the experimental result. This indicates that EFS may not be the main cause of the experimental fidelity losses, but more thorough investigation is required to draw more certain conclusions.