Boundary of quantum evolution under decoherence

DOI10.1073/PNAS.2134111100MaRDI QIDQ5460814zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Navin Khaneja, Burkhard Luy, Steffen J. Glaser

Publication date 19 July 2005

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0302060

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of optimal control and differential games (49N90) Foundations, quantum information and its processing, quantum axioms, and philosophy (81P99) Molecular physics (81V55)

Abstract: Relaxation effects impose fundamental limitations on our ability to coherently control quantum mechanical phenomena. In this letter, we establish physical limits on how closely can a quantum mechanical system be steered to a desired target state in the presence of relaxation. In particular, we explicitly compute the maximum coherence or polarization that can be transferred between coupled nuclear spins in the presence of very general decoherence mechanisms that include cross-correlated relaxation. We give analytical expressions for the control laws (pulse sequences) which achieve these physical limits and provide supporting experimental evidence. Exploitation of cross-correlation effects has recently led to the development of powerful methods in NMR spectroscopy to study very large biomolecules in solution. We demonstrate with experiments that the optimal pulse sequences provide significant gains over these state of the art methods, opening new avenues for spectroscopy of much larger proteins. Surprisingly, in spite of very large relaxation rates, optimal control can transfer coherence without any loss when cross-correlated relaxation rates are tuned to auto-correlated relaxation rates.

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