Reaching a Quantum Consensus: Master Equations that Generate Symmetrization and Synchronization

DOI10.1109/TAC.2015.2434034zbMATH Open1359.81073arXiv1403.6387OpenAlexW1561685552MaRDI QIDQ2980665FDOQ2980665

Authors: Ian R. Petersen, Karl Henrik Johansson, Guodong Shi, Daoyi Dong 

Publication date: 3 May 2017

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we propose and study a master-equation based approach to drive a quantum network with $n$ qubits to a consensus (symmetric) state introduced by Mazzarella et al. The state evolution of the quantum network is described by a Lindblad master equation with the Lindblad terms generated by continuous-time swapping operators, which also introduce an underlying interaction graph. We establish a graphical method that bridges the proposed quantum consensus scheme and classical consensus dynamics by studying an induced graph (with $2^{2n}$ nodes) of the quantum interaction graph (with $n$ qubits). A fundamental connection is then shown that quantum consensus over the quantum graph is equivalent to componentwise classical consensus over the induced graph, which allows various existing works on classical consensus to be applicable to the quantum setting. Some basic scaling and structural properties of the quantum induced graph are established via combinatorial analysis. Necessary and sufficient conditions for exponential and asymptotic quantum consensus are obtained, respectively, for switching quantum interaction graphs. As a quantum analogue of classical synchronization of coupled oscillators, quantum synchronization conditions are also presented, in which the reduced states of all qubits tend to a common trajectory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.6387

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) Synchronization of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D06) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45)

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