16 Jan 2024 | Zehang Bao, Shibo Xu, Zixuan Song, Ke Wang, Liang Xiang, Zitian Zhu, Jiachen Chen, Feitong Jin, Xuhao Zhu, Yu Gao, Yaozu Wu, Chuanyu Zhang, Ning Wang, Yiren Zou, Ziqi Tan, Aosai Zhang, Zhengyi Cui, Fanhao Shen, Jiarun Zhong, Tingting Li, Jinfeng Deng, Xu Zhang, Hang Dong, Pengfei Zhang, Yang-Ren Liu, Liangtian Zhao, Jie Hao, Hekang Li, Zhen Wang, Chao Song, Qiujiang Guo, Biao Huang, and H. Wang
The paper presents a significant advancement in the creation and manipulation of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states, which are maximally entangled quantum states. The authors propose an efficient protocol for generating GHZ states using two-dimensional quantum processors, achieving genuine multipartite entanglement with up to 60 superconducting qubits. They achieve a fidelity of 0.595 ± 0.008 for a 60-qubit GHZ state and 0.723 ± 0.010 for a 36-qubit GHZ state. The key innovation is the use of discrete time crystals (DTCs) to protect and control these fragile states. By engineering pairwise cat eigenstates as quantum many-body scars, the GHZ states are shielded from generic perturbations, enabling dynamic switching during state evolution. The authors demonstrate this by embedding a 36-qubit GHZ state in a cat scar DTC and observing "phase dancing," a temporal period-doubled oscillation of relative coherence phases, which persists over 30 cycles. This work not only advances the creation and manipulation of large-scale GHZ states but also establishes DTCs as a versatile platform for protecting and steering fragile quantum entanglement.The paper presents a significant advancement in the creation and manipulation of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states, which are maximally entangled quantum states. The authors propose an efficient protocol for generating GHZ states using two-dimensional quantum processors, achieving genuine multipartite entanglement with up to 60 superconducting qubits. They achieve a fidelity of 0.595 ± 0.008 for a 60-qubit GHZ state and 0.723 ± 0.010 for a 36-qubit GHZ state. The key innovation is the use of discrete time crystals (DTCs) to protect and control these fragile states. By engineering pairwise cat eigenstates as quantum many-body scars, the GHZ states are shielded from generic perturbations, enabling dynamic switching during state evolution. The authors demonstrate this by embedding a 36-qubit GHZ state in a cat scar DTC and observing "phase dancing," a temporal period-doubled oscillation of relative coherence phases, which persists over 30 cycles. This work not only advances the creation and manipulation of large-scale GHZ states but also establishes DTCs as a versatile platform for protecting and steering fragile quantum entanglement.