Fast and Accurate Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Encoding Using All-to-All Interactions

The N-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state is an important resource for quantum technologies. We consider the task of GHZ encoding using all-to-all interactions, which prepares the GHZ state in a special case, and is furthermore useful for quantum error correction, interaction-rate enhancement, and transmitting information using power-law interactions. The naive protocol based on parallelizing cnot gates takes O(1)-time of Hamiltonian evolution. In this work, we propose a fast protocol that achieves GHZ encoding with high accuracy. The evolution time O(log^{2}N/N) almost saturates the theoretical limit Ω(logN/N). Moreover, the final state is close to the ideal encoded one with high fidelity >1-10^{-3}, up to large system sizes N≲2000. The protocol only requires a few stages of time-independent Hamiltonian evolution; the key idea is to use the data qubit as control, and to use fast spin-squeezing dynamics generated by e.g., two-axis twisting.