Recycling of a quantum field and optimal states for single-qubit rotations
Abstract: We introduce a family of quantized field states that can perform exact (entanglement- and error-free) rotations of a two-level atom starting from a specific state on the Bloch sphere. We discuss the similarities and differences between these states and the recently-introduced "transcoherent states." Our field states have the property that they are left unchanged after the rotation, and we find they are the asymptotic states obtained when a field interacts with a succession of identically prepared ancillary atoms. Such a scheme was recently proposed [npj Quantum Information 3:17 (2017)] as a way to "restore" a field state after its interaction with a two-level atom, so as to reuse it afterwards, thus reducing the energy requirements for successive quantum logical operations. We generalize this scheme to find optimal pulses for arbitrary rotations, and also study analytically what happens if the ancillas are in a mixed, rather than a pure state. Consistent with the numerical results in the original proposal, we find that as long as the ancilla preparation error is small (of the order of , where is the average number of atoms in the pulses considered) it will introduce only higher-order errors in the performance of the restored pulse.
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