Multiqubit Spectroscopy of Gaussian Quantum Noise

Abstract

We introduce multi-pulse quantum noise spectroscopy protocols for spectral estimation of the noise affecting multiple qubits coupled to Gaussian dephasing environments including both classical and quantum sources. Our protocols are capable of reconstructing all the noise auto- and cross-correlation spectra entering the multiqubit dynamics. We argue that this capability is crucial not only for metrological purposes, as it provides access to the asymmetric spectra associated with non-classical environments, but ultimately for achieving quantum fault-tolerance, as it enables the characterization of bath correlation functions. Our result relies on (i) an exact analytic solution for the reduced multiqubit dynamics that holds in the presence of an arbitrary Gaussian environment and dephasing-preserving control; (ii) the use of specific timing symmetries in the control, which allow for a frequency comb to be engineered for all filter functions of interest, and for the spectra to be related to experimentally accessible qubit observables. We show that quantum spectra have distinctive dynamical signatures, which we explore in two paradigmatic open-system models describing spin and charge qubits coupled to bosonic environments. Complete multiqubit noise spectroscopy is demonstrated numerically in a realistic setting consisting of two-exciton qubits coupled to a phonon bath. The estimated spectra allow us to accurately predict the exciton dynamics as well as extract the temperature and spectral density of the quantum environment.

21 pages plus appendices, 4 figures

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