18.60.+d Disentanglement via dissipation/dephasing

14-qubit entanglement: creation and coherence

Tue, 2011-09-20 10:53 - Donatella Rosetti

Date:

2011-03-31

Author(s):

T. Monz, P. Schindler, J.T. Barreiro, M. Chwalla, D. Nigg, W.A. Coish, M. Harlander, W. Hänsel, M. Hennrich, R. Blatt

Reference:

Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130506 (2011)
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.130506

We report the creation of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states with up to 14 qubits. By investigating the coherence of up to 8 ions over time, we observe a decay proportional to the square of the number of qubits. The observed decay agrees with a theoretical model which assumes a system affected by correlated, Gaussian phase noise. This model holds for the majority of current experimental systems developed towards quantum computation and quantum metrology.