Coherence and Decoherence

Stephen P. Martin

S. L. Wu, Wei Ma, Zhao-Ming Wang +2 more

Steady-state coherence in open quantum systems is crucial for quantum technologies, yet its behavior is not fully understood due to the interplay between collective and individual decoherence. While collective decoherence is thought to induce steady-state coherence, experiments often fail to observe this because of individual decoherence. We study a system of two harmonic oscillators coupled to both individual and collective environments, introducing a tunable parameter to adjust the decoherence proportions. By analytically solving the exact dynamical equations, we find that steady-state coherence depends on the initial state under collective decoherence, but not under partial decoherence. Interestingly, non-Markovianity induces rich and complex steady-state coherence behaviors. Our results clarify the role of non-Markovian decoherence in quantum systems and provide a benchmark for assessing approximate methods for modeling quantum processes.

Shi Xu-Guang, Yi-Shi Duan, Qin Zhi-Jie

The topological expression of the reduced quantum trajectory is given by using ϕ-mapping topological current theory. The topological expression is used in study of the coherence and the decoherence. We find the expression of vorticity for decoherence has a similar form as that for coherence. A topological reason leading to the decoherence is given and a new parameter is defined to indicate the coherence degree. The parameter is different from the damping factor because it relates to the topological structure of the reduced quantum trajectory.

Jochen Pade

Pieter Kok

Dong Yao, Ailing Ji, Guo‐Feng Zhang

In order to study the decoherence process of quantum system and find the ways to delay it, in this paper we investigate the decoherence process under correlated depolarizing channels by calculating the evolution of norm coherence, relative entropy coherence and basis-independent coherence of the three initial states: special initial state, maximum coherent state and isotropic state. From the analytic results, numerical results and evolution images, it can be found that 1) completely correlated channels can suppress decoherence to a greatest extent,. 2) the time point at which maximum decoherence occurs is irrelevant to the degree of correlation, but system’s decoherence evolution behavior depends on it. 3)the correlation of depolarizing channels can reinforce the collective quantum coherence between subsystems, and an inequality relation of basis-independent coherence is proved in this system.