Cluster-state creation in liquid-state NMR
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Choy, Jennifer T
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering.
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David G. Cory.
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The subject of this thesis is devoted to a class of multiparticle entangled states known as the cluster-states. In particular, we focused on a system of four spins and studied the entanglement properties of a four-qubit cluster-state, using a set of entanglement measures for quantifying multipartite entanglement. We then experimentally prepared the linear cluster-state in a liquid NMR sample of crotonic acid, by applying a set of pulses generated by the Gradient Ascent Pulse Engineering (GRAPE) algorithm on a temporally averaged pseudo-pure state of four carbon spins. While our spectral results were consistent with the creation of a linear cluster-state, the reconstruction of the experimental density matrix via a full state tomography of the system revealed additional challenges in the detection of certain desired spin terms. These problems must be overcome before the system could be studied quantitatively.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-60).
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2007Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and EngineeringPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Nuclear Science and Engineering.