We investigate the most general conditions under which a finite ferromagnetic long-range interacting spin chain achieves unitary fidelity and the shortest transfer time in transmitting an unknown input qubit. A deeper insight into system dynamics, allows us to identify an ideal system involving sender and receiver only. However, this two-spin ideal chain is unpractical due to the rapid decrease of the coupling strength with the distance. Therefore, we propose an optimization scheme for approaching the ideal behavior, while keeping the interaction strength still reasonably high. The procedure is scalable with the size of the system and straightforward to implement.

• Received 6 December 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.78.022325