Quantum feedback networks: Hamiltonian formulation

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DOI10.1007/S00220-008-0698-8zbMATH Open1196.81152arXiv0804.3442OpenAlexW3105843661WikidataQ61948664 ScholiaQ61948664MaRDI QIDQ5962368FDOQ5962368

John E. Gough, Matthew R. James

Publication date: 22 September 2010

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A quantum network is an open system consisting of several component Markovian input-output subsystems interconnected by boson field channels carrying quantum stochastic signals. Generalizing the work of Chebotarev and Gregoratti, we formulate the model description by prescribing a candidate Hamiltonian for the network including details the component systems, the field channels, their interconnections, interactions and any time delays arising from the geometry of the network. (We show that the candidate is a symmetric operator and proceed modulo the proof of self-adjointness.) The model is non-Markovian for finite time delays, but in the limit where these delays vanish we recover a Markov model and thereby deduce the rules for introducing feedback into arbitrary quantum networks. The type of feedback considered includes that mediated by the use of beam splitters. We are therefore able to give a system-theoretic approach to introducing connections between quantum mechanical state-based input-output systems, and give a unifying treatment using non-commutative fractional linear, or Mobius, transformations.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3442




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