An environment-mediated quantum deleter

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2007.03.029zbMATH Open1209.81075arXivquant-ph/0611263OpenAlexW2080437820WikidataQ126271012 ScholiaQ126271012MaRDI QIDQ715850FDOQ715850

Authors: D. Kharzeev 

Publication date: 19 April 2011

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Environment-induced decoherence presents a great challenge to realizing a quantum computer. We point out the somewhat surprising fact that decoherence can be useful, indeed necessary, for practical quantum computation, in particular, for the effective erasure of quantum memory in order to initialize the state of the quantum computer. The essential point behind the deleter is that the environment, by means of a dissipative interaction, furnishes a contractive map towards a pure state. We present a specific example of an amplitude damping channel provided by a two-level system's interaction with its environment in the weak Born-Markov approximation. This is contrasted with a purely dephasing, non-dissipative channel provided by a two-level system's interaction with its environment by means of a quantum nondemolition interaction. We point out that currently used state preparation techniques, for example using optical pumping, essentially perform as quantum deleters.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0611263

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum informationdecoherencequantum computationno-deleting theoremquantum non-demolition interactionsystem-Bath interactionweak born-Markov type of interaction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68)

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