Acta Physica Sinica

SPONTANEOUS EMISSION AND DECOHERENCE IN QUANTUM COMPUTER MEMORY CELL

Deng-Yu Zhang, 湖南衡阳师范高等专科学校物理系;中国科学院安徽光学精密机械研究所激光光谱学开放研究实验室

Published Jan 1, 1997• 0 citations

Abstract

One of the main difficulties of quantum computation is that decoherence destroys the information in a quantum computer memory cell.On the basis of Rzazewski′s work,we have studied the effect of spontaneous emission on the memory cell when each memory cell is taken to be two-level atom.

DOI: 10.7498/aps.46.656

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