Quantum decay cannot be completely reversed: the 5\% rule
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Publication:3567167
DOI10.1142/S1230161209000049zbMATH Open1188.82006arXiv0807.2609MaRDI QIDQ3567167FDOQ3567167
Authors: Robert Alicki 
Publication date: 11 June 2010
Published in: Open Systems & Information Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Using an exactly solvable model of the Wigner-Weisskopf atom it is shown that an unstable quantum state cannot be recovered completely by the procedure involving detection of the decay products followed by creation of the time reversed decay products state, as proposed in cite{Son}. The universal lower bound on the recovery error is approximately equal to of the emph{error per cycle} - the dimensionless parameter characterizing decay process in the Markovian approximation. This result has consequences for the efficiency of quantum error correction procedures which are based on syndrome measurements and corrective operations.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2609
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