An introduction to operational quantum dynamics

DOI10.1142/S1230161217400169MaRDI QIDQ4602567zbMATH OpenDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Simon Milz, Felix A. Pollock, Kavan Modi

Publication date 31 January 2018

Published in Open Systems & Information Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.00769

zbMATH Keywords

non-Markovianityopen quantum systemsoperational quantum mechanicsquantum mapsquantum tomography

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Quantum state estimation, approximate cloning (81P50) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25)

Abstract: In the summer of 2016, physicists gathered in Torun, Poland for the 48th annual Symposium on Mathematical Physics. This Symposium was special; it celebrated the 40th anniversary of the discovery of the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad master equation, which is widely used in quantum physics and quantum chemistry. This article forms part of a Special Volume of the journal Open Systems & Information Dynamics arising from that conference; and it aims to celebrate a related discovery -- also by Sudarshan -- that of Quantum Maps (which had their 55th anniversary in the same year). Nowadays, much like the master equation, quantum maps are ubiquitous in physics and chemistry. Their importance in quantum information and related fields cannot be overstated. In this manuscript, we motivate quantum maps from a tomographic perspective, and derive their well-known representations. We then dive into the murky world beyond these maps, where recent research has yielded their generalisation to non-Markovian quantum processes.

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