On the speed gradient method for generating unitary quantum operations for closed quantum systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 597-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
A N Pechen
2007 ◽  
Vol 176 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 617-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Radtke ◽  
S. Fritzsche

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Castro-Ruiz ◽  
Flaminia Giacomini ◽  
Alessio Belenchia ◽  
Časlav Brukner

AbstractThe standard formulation of quantum theory relies on a fixed space-time metric determining the localisation and causal order of events. In general relativity, the metric is influenced by matter, and is expected to become indefinite when matter behaves quantum mechanically. Here, we develop a framework to operationally define events and their localisation with respect to a quantum clock reference frame, also in the presence of gravitating quantum systems. We find that, when clocks interact gravitationally, the time localisability of events becomes relative, depending on the reference frame. This relativity is a signature of an indefinite metric, where events can occur in an indefinite causal order. Even if the metric is indefinite, for any event we can find a reference frame where local quantum operations take their standard unitary dilation form. This form is preserved when changing clock reference frames, yielding physics covariant with respect to quantum reference frame transformations.


2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (30) ◽  
pp. 1430020 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. C. Wang ◽  
X. X. Yi

We review the scheme of quantum Lyapunov control and its applications into quantum systems. After a brief review on the general method of quantum Lyapunov control in closed and open quantum systems, we apply it into controlling quantum states and quantum operations. The control of a spin-1/2 quantum system, driving an open quantum system into its decoherence free subspace (DFS), constructing single qubit and two-qubit logic gates are taken to illustrate the scheme. The optimalization of the Lyapunov control is also reviewed in this article.


2003 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARUN K. PATI

Mixed states typically arise when quantum systems interact with the outside world. Evolution of open quantum systems in general are described by quantum operations which are represented by completely positive maps. We elucidate the notion of geometric phase for a quantum system described by a mixed state undergoing unitary evolution and non-unitary evolutions. We discuss parallel transport condition for mixed states both in the case of unitary maps and completely positive maps. We find that the relative phase shift of a system not only depends on the state of the system, but also depends on the initial state of the ancilla with which it might have interacted in the past. The geometric phase change during a sequence of quantum operations is shown to be non-additive in nature. This property can attribute a "memory" to a quantum channel. We explore these ideas and illustrate them with simple examples.


Quantum ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob Scharlau ◽  
Markus P. Mueller

Interactions of quantum systems with their environment play a crucial role in resource-theoretic approaches to thermodynamics in the microscopic regime. Here, we analyze the possible state transitions in the presence of "small" heat baths of bounded dimension and energy. We show that for operations on quantum systems with fully degenerate Hamiltonian (noisy operations), all possible state transitions can be realized exactly with a bath that is of the same size as the system or smaller, which proves a quantum version of Horn's lemma as conjectured by Bengtsson and Zyczkowski. On the other hand, if the system's Hamiltonian is not fully degenerate (thermal operations), we show that some possible transitions can only be performed with a heat bath that is unbounded in size and energy, which is an instance of the third law of thermodynamics. In both cases, we prove that quantum operations yield an advantage over classical ones for any given finite heat bath, by allowing a larger and more physically realistic set of state transitions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (9) ◽  
pp. 1463-1518
Author(s):  
B. R. Andrievsky ◽  
A. L. Fradkov

Author(s):  
Simon Becker ◽  
Nilanjana Datta ◽  
Robert Salzmann

AbstractWe prove the quantum Zeno effect in open quantum systems whose evolution, governed by quantum dynamical semigroups, is repeatedly and frequently interrupted by the action of a quantum operation. For the case of a quantum dynamical semigroup with a bounded generator, our analysis leads to a refinement of existing results and extends them to a larger class of quantum operations. We also prove the existence of a novel strong quantum Zeno limit for quantum operations for which a certain spectral gap assumption, which all previous results relied on, is lifted. The quantum operations are instead required to satisfy a weaker property of strong power-convergence. In addition, we establish, for the first time, the existence of a quantum Zeno limit for open quantum systems in the case of unbounded generators. We also provide a variety of physically interesting examples of quantum operations to which our results apply.


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