Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1864437 | Physics Letters A | 2014 | 6 Pages |
•A Lyapunov control design is proposed to prepare quantum gates.•Any one-qubit gates can be implemented.•The CNOT gate is implemented with different Hamiltonians.•Local equivalence class of the CNOT gate is achieved.
We propose a Lyapunov control design to achieve specific (or a family of) unitary time-evolution operators, i.e., quantum gates in the Schrödinger picture by tracking control. Two examples are presented. In the first, we illustrate how to realize the Hadamard gate in a single-qubit system, while in the second, the controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate is implemented in two-qubit systems with the Ising and Heisenberg interactions. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the control can drive the time-evolution operator into the local equivalence class of the CNOT gate and the operator keeps in this class forever with the existence of Ising coupling.