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Control of single spin in Markovian environment

Haidong Yuan

Published Dec 1, 2009• 1 citation

Abstract

In this article we study the control of single spin in Markovian environment. Given an initial state, we compute all the possible states to which the spin can be driven at arbitrary time, under the assumption that fast unitary operations on the single spin are available.

DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2009.5400712

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