Steady states of continuous-time open quantum walks

DOI10.1007/S11128-017-1625-8MaRDI QIDQ1674565zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chaobin Liu, Radhakrishnan Balu

Publication date 25 October 2017

Published in Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05652

zbMATH Keywords

steady statescontinuous-time open quantum walkssemigroups on graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Quantum computation (81P68) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Semigroups in automata theory, linguistics, etc. (20M35)

Abstract: Continuous-time open quantum walks (CTOQW) are introduced as the formulation of quantum dynamical semigroups of trace-preserving and completely positive linear maps (or quantum Markov semigroups) on graphs. We show that a CTOQW always converges to a steady state regardless of the initial state when a graph is connected. When the graph is both connected and regular, it is shown that the steady state is the maximally mixed state. As shown by the examples in this article, the steady states of CTOQW can be very unusual and complicated even though the underlying graphs are simple. The examples demonstrate that the structure of a graph can affect quantum coherence in CTOQW through a long time run. Precisely, the quantum coherence persists throughout the evolution of the CTOQW when the underlying topology is certain irregular graphs (such as a path or a star as shown in the examples). In contrast, the quantum coherence will eventually vanish from the open quantum system when the underlying topology is a regular graph (such as a cycle).

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