Broadband geodesic pulses for three spin systems: time-optimal realization of effective trilinear coupling terms and indirect SWAP gates

Broadband implementations of time-optimal geodesic pulse elements are introduced for the efficient creation of effective trilinear coupling terms for spin systems consisting of three weakly coupled spins 1/2. Based on these pulse elements, the time-optimal implementation of indirect SWAP operations is demonstrated experimentally. The duration of indirect SWAP gates based on broadband geodesic sequence is reduced by 42.3% compared to conventional approaches. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.