How much time does a measurement take?

DOI10.1007/S10701-013-9707-7MaRDI QIDQ364092zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. A. Brasil, Leonardo Andreta de Castro, Reginaldo de Jesus Napolitano

Publication date 5 September 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4613

zbMATH Keywords

finite-time measurementLindblad equationopen quantum systemquantum measurement theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: We consider the problem of measurement using the Lindblad equation, which allows the introduction of time in the interaction between the measured system and the measurement apparatus. We use analytic results, valid for weak system-environment coupling, obtained for a two-level system in contact with a measurer (Markovian interaction) and a thermal bath (non-Markovian interaction), where the measured observable may or may not commute with the system-environment interaction. Analysing the behavior of the coherence, which tends to a value asymptotically close to zero, we obtain an expression for the time of measurement which depends only on the system-measurer coupling, and which does not depend on whether the observable commutes with the system-bath interaction. The behavior of the coherences in the case of strong system-environment coupling, found numerically, indicates that an increase in this coupling decreases the measurement time, thus allowing our expression to be considered the upper limit for the duration of the process.

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