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up the evolution a bit, it is possible to produce excitation to |E〉 without placing<br />

significant population into the higher-energy excited states.<br />

3. Apply the unitary transformation UBCS(tq) = exp (−iHBCStq/) for tq ranging from<br />

0 to the total time tQ, where a total of Q steps are used. Each time, measure one<br />

qubit in the Z basis. Any operator M for which 〈G|M |E〉 = 0 may be measured.<br />

4. Perform a (classical) discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on the measured spectra; fre-<br />

quency peaks will be present at ∆, the energy gap between |G〉 and |E〉.<br />

We now explain how each piece is implemented in an NMR system.<br />

Step 1 is a very common and well-understood operation in NMR quantum computing.<br />

Starting in the ground state |00...0〉, the spins may be initialized by simply applying single-<br />

qubit rotations Rx(π) to the desired qubits.<br />

Step 2, the quasi-adiabatic evolution, is implemented in the following way. The system is<br />

evolved under a Hamiltonian that gradually changes from the NMR Hamiltonian H0 + HI<br />

(c.f. Sec. 2.1) into HBCS. Specifically, the Hamiltonian used at each step is H = (1 −<br />

s/S)H0 + (s/S)HBCS. The unitary corresponding to each is U = exp(−iH(s)τ/), where<br />

the timestep τ and total number of steps S together control the rate of quasiadiabatic<br />

evolution. This procedure is discussed further in [SvDH + 03]. The construction of HBCS is<br />

discussed presently.<br />

Step 3, evolution under HBCS, is done by a pulse sequence designed as follows. We re-<br />

quire an approximation of the unitary evolution under HBCS, UBCS(qt0) = exp(−iHBCSqt0).<br />

An ideal NMR implementation accomplishes this by a repeatable pulse sequence VBCS(t0),<br />

where UBCS(qt0) ≈ (VBCS(t0)) q . The Hamiltonian HBCS (Eq. 3.2) contains three noncommuting<br />

parts: H0 = <br />

m νm<br />

2 (−Zm), HXX = Vml<br />

m

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