Dynamical decoupling and homogenization of continuous variable systems

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA6017zbMATH Open1362.81020arXiv1605.05908OpenAlexW3103975545WikidataQ59473199 ScholiaQ59473199MaRDI QIDQ2978933FDOQ2978933

R. Hillier, Daniel Burgarth, Christian Arenz

Publication date: 2 May 2017

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For finite-dimensional quantum systems, such as qubits, a well established strategy to protect such systems from decoherence is dynamical decoupling. However many promising quantum devices, such as oscillators, are infinite dimensional, for which the question if dynamical decoupling could be applied remained open. Here we first show that not every infinite-dimensional system can be protected from decoherence through dynamical decoupling. Then we develop dynamical decoupling for continuous variable systems which are described by quadratic Hamiltonians. We identify a condition and a set of operations that allow us to map a set of interacting harmonic oscillators onto a set of non-interacting oscillators rotating with an averaged frequency, a procedure we call homogenization. Furthermore we show that every quadratic system-environment interaction can be suppressed with two simple operations acting only on the system. Using a random dynamical decoupling or homogenization scheme, we develop bounds that characterize how fast we have to work in order to achieve the desired uncoupled dynamics. This allows us to identify how well homogenization can be achieved and decoherence can be suppressed in continuous variable systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.05908

zbMATH Keywords

decoherencedynamical decouplingquadratic Hamiltonians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear oscillations and coupled oscillators for ordinary differential equations (34C15) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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