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Decoherence speed limit in the spin-deformed boson model

Sh. Dehdashti, M. Bagheri Harouni, Behrouz Mirza, Hongsheng Chen

Published Feb 18, 2015• 41 citations

Abstract

In this paper, we study the role of the nonlinear environment on the bound passage time of dynamical quantum spin systems, which is of great interest in quantum control and has been applied to quantum metrology, quantum computation, and quantum chemical dynamics. We consider the decoherence speed limit for the spin-deformed bosonic model and the impacts of the nonlinear environment and its temperature on the decoherence speed limit. Moreover, we show that, at an early enough time, the parameters associated with the nonlinear environment exhibit important roles in controlling the decoherence process. In addition our results reveal that, in long times, these parameters do not affect the decoherence process.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.91.022116

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