Tuning Logical Phi-Bit State Vectors in an Externally Driven Nonlinear Array of Acoustic Waveguides via Drivers’ Phase
We experimentally navigate the Hilbert space of two logical phi-bits supported by an externally driven nonlinear array of coupled acoustic waveguides by parametrically changing the relative phase of the drivers. We observe sharp phase jumps of approximately 180° in the individual phi-bit states as a result of the phase tuning of the drivers. The occurrence of these sharp phase jumps varies from phi-bit to phi-bit. All phi-bit phases also possess a common background dependency on the drivers’ phase. Within the context of multiple time scale perturbation theory, we develop a simple model of the nonlinear array of externally driven coupled acoustic waveguides to shed light on the possible mechanisms for the experimentally observed behavior of the logical phi-bit phase. Finally, we illustrate the ability to experimentally initialize the state of single- and multiple- phi-bit systems by exploiting the drivers’ phase as a tuning parameter. We also show that the nonlinear correlation between phi-bits enables parallelism in the manipulation of two- and multi-phi-bit superpositions of states. |
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@article{DRHLL23,
author = {Pierre A. Deymier and Keith Runge and M. Arif Hasan and Trevor D. Lata and Joshua A. Levine},
day = {1},
ee = {https://doi.org/10.3390/quantum5020022},
journal = {Quantum Reports},
month = {5},
number = {2},
pages = {325--344},
publisher = {MDPI},
title = {Tuning Logical Phi-Bit State Vectors in an Externally Driven Nonlinear Array of Acoustic Waveguides via Drivers’ Phase},
volume = {5},
year = {2023}
}