Suppression of decoherence by periodic forcing

DOI10.1007/S10955-014-0952-8MaRDI QIDQ2511550zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Volker Bach, Walter de Siqueira Pedra, M. Merkli, I. M. Sigal

Publication date 6 August 2014

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6547

decoherence open quantum systems quantum control theory

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum control (81Q93) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: We consider a finite-dimensional quantum system coupled to a thermal reservoir and subject to a time-periodic, energy conserving forcing. We show that, if a certain dynamical decoupling condition is fulfilled, then the periodic forcing counteracts the decoherence induced by the reservoir: for small system-reservoir coupling

l a m b d a

and small forcing period

T

, the system dynamics is approximated by an energy conserving and non-dissipative dynamics, which preserves coherences. For times up to order

(l a m b d a T)^{- 1}

, the difference between the true and approximated dynamics is of size

l a m b d a + T

. Our approach is rigorous and combines Floquet and spectral deformation theory. We illustrate our results on the spin-fermion model and recover previously known, heuristically obtained results.

Review text

In this work the authors investigate the phenomenon of decoherence in finite dimensional quantum systems, in terms of what happens when a time-periodic external force acting on an open system is superimposed to a noise coupling. By letting \(T\) denote the period of the forcing and \(\lambda\) the system-environment coupling strength (both small), it is shown that for times up to order \((\lambda T)^{-1}\), (from the text), ``the dynamics is given by \[ [\rho_s(t)]_{i,j}=e^{i\Phi_{i,j}(t)}[\rho_s(0)]_{i,j}+\mathcal{O}(\lambda+T) \] where \(\Phi_{i,j}(t)\) is a real phase. The off-diagonal density matrix elements do not decay, so forcing has counteracted to the decoherence effect of the reservoir. The main result of the work, Theorem 1.1, shows that if \(\lambda\) and \(T\) are small enough then the system dynamics is close to the one generated by the system hamiltonian plus the forcing term, but without the interaction with the heat bath.

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