The Kitaev-Feynman clock for open quantum systems

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/16/11/113066MaRDI QIDQ3387145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David G. Tempel, Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Publication date 12 January 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5631

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: We show that Feynman's Clock construction, in which the time-evolution of a closed quantum system is encoded as a ground state problem, can be extended to open quantum systems. In our formalism, the ground states of an ensemble of non-Hermitian Feynman Clock Hamiltonians yield stochastic trajectories, which unravel the evolution of a Lindblad master equation. In this way, one can use Feynman's Clock not only to simulate the evolution of a quantum system, but also it's interaction with an environment such as a heat bath or measuring apparatus. A simple numerical example of a two-level atom undergoing spontaneous emission is presented and analyzed.

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