arXiv:1309.0562 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

On structure-preserving transformations of the Itō generator matrix for model reduction of quantum feedback networks

Hendra I. Nurdin, John Edward Gough

Published Oct 22, 2012• 9 citations

Abstract

Two standard operations of model reduction for quantum feedback networks, elimination of internal connections under the instantaneous feedback limit and adiabatic elimination of fast degrees of freedom, are cast as structure-preserving transformations of Itō generator matrices. It is shown that the order in which they are applied is inconsequential.

DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0523

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