Structure and parametrization of stochastic maps of density matrices

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/18/312MaRDI QIDQ4707586zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors E. C. G. Sudarshan, Anil Shaji

Publication date 10 June 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0109158

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: The generic linear evolution of the density matrix of a system with a finite-dimensional state space is by stochastic maps which take a density matrix linearly into the set of density matrices. These dynamical stochastic maps form a linear convex set that may be viewed as supermatrices. The property of hermiticity of density matrices renders an associated supermatrix hermitian and hence diagonalizable; but the positivity of the density matrix does not make this associated supermatrix positive. If it is positive, the map is called completely positive and they have a simple parametrization. This is extended to all positive (not completely positive) maps. A contraction of a norm-preserving map of the combined system can be contracted to obtain all dynamical maps. The reconstruction of the extended dynamics is given.

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