Time reversals of irreversible quantum maps

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/48/38/38FT01zbMATH Open1397.81023arXiv1505.02259WikidataQ62049395 ScholiaQ62049395MaRDI QIDQ3448656FDOQ3448656

Erik Aurell, Karol Życzkowski, Jakub Zakrzewski

Publication date: 26 October 2015

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

Abstract: We introduce the notion of time reversal in open quantum systems as represented by linear quantum operations, and a related generalization of classical entropy production in the environment. This functional is the ratio of the probability to observe a transition between two states under the forward and the time reversed dynamics, and leads, as in the classical case, to fluctuation relations as tautological identities. As in classical dynamics in contact with a heat bath, time reversal is not unique, and we discuss several possibilities. For any bistochastic map its dual map preserves the trace and describes a legitimate dynamics reversed in time, in that case the entropy production in the environment vanishes. For a generic stochastic map we construct a simple quantum operation which can be interpreted as a time reversal. For instance, the decaying channel, which sends the excited state into the ground state with a certain probability, can be reversed into the channel transforming the ground state into the excited state with the same probability.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02259

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zbMATH Keywords

time reversalquantum mapfluctuation relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

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