General classification of qubit encodings in ultracold diatomic molecules

Abstract

Owing to their rich internal structure and significant long-range interactions, ultracold molecules have been widely explored as carriers of quantum information. Several different schemes for encoding qubits into molecular states, both bare and field-dressed, have been proposed. At the same time, the rich internal structure of molecules leaves many unexplored possibilities for qubit encodings. We show that all molecular qubit encodings can be classified into four classes by the type of the effective interaction between the qubits. In the case of polar molecules, the four classes are determined by the relative magnitudes of matrix elements of the dipole moment operator in the single molecule basis. We exemplify our classification scheme by considering a new type of encoding of the effective spin-1/2 system into non-adjacent rotational states (e.g., $N=0$ and $N=2$) of polar and non-polar molecules with the same nuclear spin projection. Our classification scheme is designed to inform the optimal choice of molecular qubit encoding for quantum information storage and processing applications, as well as for dynamical generation of many-body entangled states and for quantum annealing.

arXiv comment26 pages, 6 figures

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