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Protecting Quantum Information via Destructive Interference of Correlated Noise

Alon Salhov1,*,§, Qingyun Cao2,3,§, Jianming Cai3,†, Alex Retzker1,4, Fedor Jelezko2, and Genko Genov2,‡

  • 1Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Givat Ram, Israel
  • 2Institute for Quantum Optics, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany
  • 3School of Physics, International Joint Laboratory on Quantum Sensing and Quantum Metrology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 4AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Pasadena, California 91125, USA

  • *alon.salhov@mail.huji.ac.il
  • †jianmingcai@hust.edu.cn
  • ‡genko.genov@uni-ulm.de
  • §These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223601 – Published 30 May, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.223601

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Decoherence and imperfect control are crucial challenges for quantum technologies. Common protection strategies rely on noise temporal autocorrelation, which is not optimal if other correlations are present. We develop and demonstrate experimentally a strategy that uses the cross-correlation of two noise sources. Utilizing destructive interference of cross-correlated noise extends the coherence time tenfold, improves control fidelity, and surpasses the state-of-the-art sensitivity for high frequency quantum sensing, significantly expanding the applicability of noise protection strategies.

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