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arXiv:1606.05719 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

The Kalman Decomposition for Linear Quantum Systems

Guofeng Zhang, Symeon Grivopoulos, Ian R. Petersen, John Edward Gough

Published Jun 7, 2017• 44 citations
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Abstract

This paper studies the Kalman decomposition for linear quantum systems. Contrary to the classical case, the coordinate transformation used for the decomposition must belong to a specific class of transformations as a consequence of the laws of quantum mechanics. We propose a construction method for such transformations that put the system in a Kalman canonical form. Furthermore, we uncover an interesting structure for the obtained decomposition. In the case of passive systems, it is shown that there exist only controllable/observable and uncontrollable/unobservable subsystems. In the general case, controllable/unobservable and uncontrollable/observable subsystems may also be present, but their respective system variables must be conjugate variables of each other. This decomposition naturally exposes decoherence-free modes, quantum-nondemolition modes, quantum-mechanics-free subsystems, and back-action evasion measurements in the quantum system, which are useful resources for quantum information processing, and quantum measurements. The theory developed is applied to physical examples.

DOI
10.1109/tac.2017.2713343

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The purpose of this paper is to characterize the structure of quantum linear systems. By means of a scattering representation, a relation between two systems GGG and Σ\SigmaΣ is established, by which we show that GGG is lossless bounded real if and only if Σ\SigmaΣ is lossless positive real. When GGG is a quantum linear system, we show that its fundamental symplectic structure and physical realizability conditions can be expressed in a simpler way in terms of Σ\SigmaΣ. Furthermore, when GGG is a passive quantum linear system, we show that its uncontrollable subspace and unobservable subspace are identical and they are spanned by the eigenvectors of the AAA matrix of GGG, whose corresponding eigenvalues are all on the imaginary axis. For the nonpassive case, several sufficient conditions are given. Finally, in terms of controllability and observability, the problem of quantum linear system decomposition is investigated. In particular, a quantum Kalman decomposition is proposed. This canonical decomposition naturally exposes decoherence-free modes and quantum non-demolished modes, which are useful resources for quantum information science.
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