Simulation of Grover's quantum search algorithm in an Ising-nuclear-spin- chain quantum computer with first- and second-nearest-neighbour couplings

Abstract

We implement Grover's quantum search algorithm on a nuclear spin-chain quantum computer, taking Ising-type interactions between nearest and second-nearest neighbours into account. The performance of this implementation is studied by numerical simulations with four spins. We determine the temporal behaviour of the fidelity during the algorithm, and we compute the final fidelity as a function of the Rabi frequency. For the latter, we obtain pronounced maxima at frequencies which fulfil the condition of the 2πk-method with respect to the second-nearest- neighbour interactions. © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.