Optimal Control and Glassiness in Quantum Sensing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03627v1
• Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 21:18:22 GMT
• Title: Optimal Control and Glassiness in Quantum Sensing
• Authors: Christopher I. Timms, Michael H. Kolodrubetz,
• Abstract summary: Nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond can be operated as qubits for sensing of magnetic field, temperature, or related signals. We consider extending beyond $pi$ pulses, exploring optimization of a continuous, time-dependent control field.
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• Abstract: Quantum systems are powerful detectors with wide-ranging applications from scanning probe microscopy of materials to biomedical imaging. Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond, for instance, can be operated as qubits for sensing of magnetic field, temperature, or related signals. By well-designed application of pulse sequences, experiments can filter this signal from environmental noise, allowing extremely sensitive measurements with single NV centers. Recently, optimal control has been used to further improve sensitivity by modification of the pulse sequence, most notably by optimal placement of $\pi$ pulses. Here we consider extending beyond $\pi$ pulses, exploring optimization of a continuous, time-dependent control field. We show that the difficulty of optimizing these protocols can be mapped to the difficulty of finding minimum free energy in a classical frustrated spin system. While most optimizations we consider show autocorrelations of the sensing protocol that grow as a power law -- similar to an Ising spin glass -- the continuous control shows slower logarithmic growth, suggestive of a harder Heisenberg-like glassy landscape.

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