Stationary quantum stochastic process j is introduced as a *-homomorphism embedding an involutive graded algebra
K~=⊕i=1∞Ki into a ring of (abelian) cohomologies of the one-parameter group
α consisting of *-automorphisms of certain operator algebra in a Hilbert space such that every x from
Ki is translated into an additive
i−α-cocycle j(x). It is shown that (noncommutative) multiplicative markovian cocycle defines a perturbation of the stationary quantum stochastic process in the sense of such definition. The
E0-semigroup
β~ on the von Neumann algebra
N associated with the markovian perturbation of K-flow j posseses the restriction
β~∣N0,N0⊂N, which is conjugate to the flow of Powers shifts
β associated with j. It yields for
β~ an analogue of the Wold decomposition for classical stochastic process on completely nondeterministic and deterministic parts. The examples of quantum stationary stochastic processes on the algebras of canonical commutation, anticommutation and square of white noise relations are considered. In the model situation of the space
L2(R) all markovian cocycles of the group of shifts are described up to unitary equivalence of perturbations.
The definition and some general properties of the generalized Weyl correspondence between stochastic processes and operator-valued real functions on a Hilbert space plus a trace class operator are given. The relation between the derivatives of an operator-valued function and the derivative of the corresponding stochastic process are studied. When the operator-valued function is the position (or momentum) in the Heisenberg picture, a condition for the positivity of the joint distribution functions of the corresponding process is given, provided that the evolution Hamiltonian be quadratic in the position and momentum. Finally, the case of an arbitrary Hamiltonian evolution for the position operator is studied and the two-dimensional density functions of the process is related to the Wigner function associated to some state ρ̂, and a necessary condition for the positivity of the densities is given.
The harmonic oscillator is considered within generalized frameworks using complex and quaternionic numbers. The classical oscillator is considered in terms of a complex position function, and quantum oscillators are examined in terms of complex wave functions, and in terms of quaternionic wave functions as well. Both of the quantum solutions are obtained within the real Hilbert space formalism. The results reveal the complex and quaternionic descriptions as suitable frameworks for non-stationary processes, including damped oscillations, forced oscillations, and additionally self-interacting processes that cannot be appropriately described otherwise.
This paper is concerned with exponential moments of integral-of-quadratic functions of quantum processes with canonical commutation relations of position-momentum type. Such quadratic-exponential functionals (QEFs) arise as robust performance criteria in control problems for open quantum harmonic oscillators (OQHOs) driven by bosonic fields. We develop a randomised representation for the QEF using a Karhunen–Loeve expansion of the quantum process on a bounded time interval over the eigenbasis of its two-point commutator kernel, with noncommuting position-momentum pairs as coefficients. This representation holds regardless of a particular quantum state and employs averaging over an auxiliary classical Gaussian random process whose covariance operator is specified by the commutator kernel. This allows the QEF to be related to the moment-generating functional of the quantum process and computed for multipoint Gaussian states. For stationary Gaussian quantum processes, we establish a frequency-domain formula for the QEF rate in terms of the Fourier transform of the quantum covariance kernel in composition with trigonometric functions. A differential equation is obtained for the QEF rate with respect to the risk sensitivity parameter for its approximation and numerical computation. The QEF is also applied to large deviations and worst-case mean square cost bounds for OQHOs in the presence of statistical uncertainty with a quantum relative entropy description.
Gaussian quantum Markov semigroups are the natural non-commutative extension of classical Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroups. They arise in open quantum systems of bosons where canonical non-commuting random variables of positions and momenta come into play. If there exists a faithful invariant density we explicitly compute the optimal exponential convergence rate, namely the spectral gap of the generator, in non-commutative L 2 spaces determined by the invariant density showing that the exact value is the lowest eigenvalue of a certain matrix determined by the diffusion and drift matrices. The spectral gap turns out to depend on the non-commutative L 2 space considered, whether the one determined by the so-called GNS or KMS multiplication by the square root of the invariant density. In the first case, it is strictly positive if and only if there is the maximum number of linearly independent noises. While, we exhibit explicit examples in which it is strictly positive only with KMS multiplication. We do not assume any symmetry or quantum detailed balance condition with respect to the invariant density.
Abstract Random walks in a real separable Hilbert space correspond to a composition of random unitary operators in the space of functions square integrable with respect to a translation-invariant measure, as well as to a composition of random unitary channels in the space of quantum states. Conditions on the distribution of random walks that are necessary and sufficient for the continuity of the mathematical expectations of their representations in the Hilbert space and the space of quantum states are obtained. The dynamics of the set of quantum states obtained by averaging random shifts over the semigroup (with respect to the convolution operation) of centered Gaussian measures on the Hilbert space is studied. It is shown that, depending on the property of the covariance operator of the Gaussian measure to have a nuclear square root, such dynamics is either a strongly continuous quantum dynamical semigroup or instantaneously destroys the set of normal states. In the latter case, the dynamics of singular quantum states is described in terms of the evolution of mean values on an operator algebra that implements a representation of canonical commutation relations.